Chapter 159. Strangers

Lilith POV

The entire place fell into a stunned silence, so thick you could hear a pin drop. Every eye was on me, wide and unblinking, mouths slightly agape, breaths held as I was wrapped in Claude’s arms, staring down the three men before me. They couldn’t have been more different from one another, yet each wore the same expression: pride.

Not because I had defeated the men as Lilith. But pride because I had done it as their beta. Pride because I had proven that they had made the right choice. Even though I knew they didn’t really care about anyone else’s opinions, there was a faint flicker of satisfaction in their eyes.

My heart raced as my mind tried to wrap around what I had just done, what Drevana, grinning from ear to ear, was eagerly urging me to do next: fight the elders.

But before I could even think, Silas spoke.

“So… does anyone here have anything else to say about our choice?”

He pulled his hand from my hair, and I watched him t