Career over Love

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My brain didn’t immediately register what she had said.

So, I waited for her to repeat or resume. She didn’t.

“Alpha King’s court?” I repeated. For some reason, I was finding it hard to accept the information that she had shared.

The Alpha King of werewolves was something of a myth. We knew he existed but had no idea where he was and how he governed the werewolves. It was said that he had the strongest connection to the Moon Goddess. Nobody knew, but it was said, that he had special powers that no werewolf possessed. It was genetic.

Even the most powerful of Alphas, myself included, had been searching for the Alpha King for centuries. How did Claire, an ordinary she-wolf from an ordinary pack, reach the Alpha King’s court?

My confusion was clear, which is why she explained, “You know the research I was doing before everything?”

I nodded. Claire has studied to be a genetic researcher. She had always been interested in unlocking the secrets of werewolf DNA and finding