Ravena's POV
Lucien's face went pale. His mouth opened, closed, then opened again. He looked like a fish gasping for air.
"I... I..." he stammered, his gaze shifting nervously between me and Kael.
Before he could form a coherent sentence, Kael's voice broke through the tension.
"Let me make this easier for you," Kael spat, his tone sharp with barely controlled rage. "Astrid abused her authority. She tortured my younger brother. The heir to our pack. She questioned him for hours. Beat him. Burned him with silver. And when he would not give her the answers she wanted, she killed him."
Lucien flinched as if he had been struck.
"She murdered a child," Kael's voice grew louder. "A boy who had done nothing wrong. And yet you stand here, defending her? Trusting her blindly?"
"She..." Luci
