Chapter 174

Side Story 40.

Clara POV

By the end of it all, every trail led back to Alpha Klaus.

The men he had sent to do his dirty work, the evidence gathered quietly over the years, the testimonies that surfaced once fear loosened its grip—everything pointed to him. And the most horrifying truth of all was one no one could deny anymore: he had murdered his own brother, the former Alpha, simply to claim the title for himself.

The punishment for such a crime was death.

Yet even then, Abel showed a mercy Klaus never deserved. Because Klaus had acted alone, his wife and son were spared execution. Still, they were stripped of their titles, their authority, their name within the pack. They would be driven out and exiled forever, carrying the weight of Klaus’s sins with them. If not for Abel’s restra