Sera's POV
"I need everyone to calm down!" Gideon’s powerful voice boomed across the front steps outside, echoing through the open oak doors into the grand foyer. But the angry shouts rising from the courtyard below only grew louder, overlapping in a chaotic storm of accusations.
"Show her to us!"
"Are we no better than the tyrants we're fighting?!"
When the crowd refused to settle, the air inside and outside the pack house suddenly shifted. A suffocating, crushing weight dropped over the entryway as Gideon unleashed his Alpha aura right on the threshold.
It hit the courtyard like a physical blow, and even standing back in the shadow of a grand stone pillar inside the foyer, the sheer pressure of it made my knees buckle. My chest tightened, my heart hammering against my ribs as the d
