Chapter 140. You Will Be Our Beta

Lilith POV

“Daddy! Daddy! Do you think I could ever become a strong beta like you? I really want to save people the way you do. It’s so cool!”

That was what my eight-year-old self had said, grinning up at the man whose smile froze the moment the words left my mouth.

He turned to my mother, exchanging a quiet, sad look, and just like that, the warmth of dinner dissolved into something awkward and heavy.

Back then, I didn’t understand why. I only kept smiling, waiting eagerly for his answer. As I grew older, I did.

Women couldn’t be beta. In the entire history of Fangspire, no woman had ever held that position. It had been that way since the pack was founded. If a beta family failed to produce a male heir, the title would be passed to another family, one that could and that family would hold the position until they, too, could no longer produce sons.

My family had always been the beta family. But my mother never bore a male child.

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