"You're a human-born. You don't even have the constitution to bond with him, let alone bear his pup."
"This bastard is obviously the product of some affair with a low-ranking patrol wolf. And you have the audacity to pass it off as the Supreme Alpha's heir? The nerve."
They weren't entirely wrong. The gap between a human-born and a pureblood wolf was vast beyond reckoning.
The Supreme Alpha, above all, was a being no human-born should have been able to touch, let alone conceive a pup with.
That was why he had fed me his Alpha blood essence, day after day.
It kept me ageless and undying, and it tempered my human-born body until the barrier between us slowly dissolved.
Even so, it had taken us hundreds of thousands of years to conceive this pup.
"Everything I've said is true. If anything happens to this pup, no one here will survive the Supreme Alpha's wrath. He will reduce the Six Great Packs to ash and ruin!"
Under the Supreme Alpha's nourishment, my body had long surpassed anything human.
But now, broken and bleeding, I could feel my life draining away with terrifying speed.
I poured every last scrap of strength into those words, praying Seraphina would spare my child.