in Vengeance 160_A Broken Alpha Heiress' Revenge

Karl’s POV

 The rain didn’t stop

 It came down like a curse from the Moon Goddess herself–cold, relentless, and unforgiving

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 I’d been kneeling outside the Duskgrave estate for what felt like a lifetime. In truth, it had only been two hours, but every minute in that storm felt like a de slicing through my spine.

 My knees were numb. My lingers too still to curl. My wolf was silent.

 And my heart? Shattered,

 I wasn’t here to make a scene. I wasn’t here to beg for pity. I was here because I’d wronged her–Riley. My little sister. My

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 My adopted sister offended my biological sister, and I want to ask for her forgiveness, Riley has always been easy to coax. As long as I am a little gentler to her, she will do exactly what I say. But I don’t know why this time, she seems really heartbroken.

 I deserved the pain.

 It was the only thing that made sense anymore.

 The downpour blurred everything–my vision, my thoughts, my pride.

 I don’t remember falling.

 One second I was kneeling… the next, the world tilted sideways. Cold water rushed up to meet me, soaking into my clothes and lungs. Then, ck 

 When I came to, it wasn’t the rain I felt–it was heat. Clean, dry, sullocating heat.

 Hospital lights.

 I blinked against the brightness, my throat burning, my body aching in ces I didn’t know could ache. My limbs felt like they were made of lead. The IV line tugged slightly as I shified, and a dull beep rang from some monitor nearby.

 Then, my phone rang

 A shrill buzz that cut through my skull like ws on stone.

 I fumbled for it, pressed it to my car, my voice a rasp. “Hello…?”

 “Alpha Karl! Finally! Where the hell have you been?! I’ve been calling all night!” It was Luca–my assistant, his voice cracking under pressure. “You need to get to thepany. Now. It’s it’s over. Thepany–Vale Industries–it’s gone. We’re bankrupt

 I bolted upright. Pain ricocheted through my skull, but I didn’t care. “What did you just say?!”

 “I—I sand we’re finished! The board’s in chaos, the banks froze our assets, the media’s already outside. We’re under investigation for tax fraud And Alpha. His voice dropped, trembling. “The council has been alerted”

 I stared nkly at the white walls around me “Impossible. We were tine yesterday. We just signed off on the new trade route with the ckmaw border fleet. There’s no way we could’ve copsed overnight.”

 But deep down, I knew that wasn’t true.

 The truth?

 We’d been bleeding for months

 Debt Corruption False reports. The fa?ade I helped build to keep the pack’s reputation intact was crumbling because of

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 +B Pearls<ol><li>me. Because I was too arrogant to admit that Riley had seen it all first. That her warnings weren’t paranoia… they were prophecy.</li></ol>

 Lucien.

 My teeth ground together.

 Stormridge’s infamous Alpha. Riley’s so–called savior.

 He’d done this. 

 He must’ve.

 No one else had the power–or the motive–to tear down Ebonw’s pride in a single night.

 I ripped the IV from my arm, blood dripping down my wrist. The nurse outside shouted something, but I was already pulling on my coat. Hospital gown still clinging to me like shame, I didn’t care.

 I had to see it for myself..

 The ride to thepany was a blur. The streets still slick with rain, the sky a murky gray like it hadn’t yet decided whether to give me a second chance or bury me for good.

 When I arrived at the Vale Industries tower, it wasn’t the chaos that got me–it was the silence.

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 lights on. No staff rushing through the doors. Just cold wind and wet concrete.

 And the cops

 Three enforcers from the Lunar Tribunal stood at the front gate.

 One of them stepped forward. “Alpha Kael Vale!”

 I squared my shoulders. “What do you want?”

 “Vale Industries is under investigation for severe tax vitions and regtory fraud,” the wolf said. “You are listed as the registered Alpha–owner and legal representative. You’ll need toe with us.”

 His words didn’tnd right.

 Registered Alpha–owner?

 Legal representative?

 That wasn’t possible.

 I was never made the formal head of thepany. My father was the founder. The true Alpha of Ebonw’s financial arm.

 I was just the heir. The name on the documents was never supposed to be mine.

 “What the hell do you mean I’m the legal representative?” I snapped. “That’s impossible.

 But even as I said it, pieces were falling into ce.

 The day Father left for the Western Territories.

 The emergency documents he pushed in front of me.

 “Just sign it, Kael We need a name to secure the deal before the council interferes

 Igned it without reading i

 I thought it was temporary

 I thought I was just holding rein until he came back

 My own damn name.

 And Goddess… what if this was always the n? 

 What if my father never intended toe back? 

 What if I’d been made a scapegoat from the beginning?

 The enforcers moved in.

 I didn’t resist.

 There was nothing left to fight for.

 Only one face haunted me now–Riley’s.

 My little sister.

 The one I locked away. The one I called a traitor. The one I beat and betrayed to protect a lie.

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 She once warned me to be cautious after learning about it–being the legal representative of apany is no easy task. But I brushed it off as her showing off some petty tricks in front of me. I didn’t listen to her. In fact, I coldly warned her to mind her own business.

 I didn’t listen.

 Now the world was burning, and I was the fool kneeling in its ashes.

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