Chapter 23. Caught You, Bastard

Lilith POV

“Dad, why do we have three Alphas while other packs only have one? Is it because they’re triplets? But can’t the Alpha just choose the strongest to inherit the position?”

That was the question I had asked my father offhandedly during dinner one day.

I had always wondered why we had three Alphas instead of just one. Fangspire Pack wasn’t the first to have twins or triplets as heirs, several packs before us had produced multiple sons but in all those cases, one Alpha was always chosen.

Usually, the strongest was picked through a match.

I’d heard that in such matches, the brothers would fight for the throne, sometimes to the death. But that was just the way of the werewolf world: brutal and unforgiving.

The strong ruled the weak, and the strongest ruled the strong.

So when everyone was debating which of the Alpha’s sons—Lucien, Silas, or Claude would be chosen as the next Alpha, no one expected what came next.

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