Chapter 73 Stabbed

• ~Ace~
• My father stared at my brothers and me, and then he smiled. Why was he smiling? As far as I knew him, I knew he was not the type to smile without plotting something. Something must have happened for him to smile like that. "You shall rise as the Alpha King," my father's proclamation bore down upon my soul with immense weight. It felt as if the entire world's burden had been placed squarely on my shoulders. "According to the laws that govern our kind, my disfigured face renders me ineligible to reclaim the throne.
• Thump, thump. That was the sound of my heart pounding as I stood before my father in the grand throne room, surrounded by the Alphas of the packs. However, something was amiss—the absence of any pack members from the forsaken Realm. It was a situation I planned to rectify once I ascended to the position of Alpha King. I would make sure I changed everything, including his rules.