Chapter 136: Darius’s Revelation
DARIUS POV
I slammed my fist into the Shadow Lord’s chest, pulling out its dark heart before it could hurt another pack member.
"Alpha Darius!" one of the smaller wolves gasped. "Your eyes—they’re not green anymore!"
I looked down at the dying shadow thing in my hands, then at my pack members cowering behind overturned cars. My people. My family. The wolves I’d been faking to hunt for the past three days.
"No," I said quietly. "They’re not green anymore."
The truth was, they hadn’t been green for a while now. I’d just been very good at faking.
"But how?" another wolf asked. "We saw you get possessed. We saw the Shadow Lords take control of you."
"They tried to take control," I corrected. "But they didn’t know about the mental protection my father taught me when I was young. Old Alpha methods that most people have forgotten."
It was a lie, but a useful one. The real truth was much more complex.
The Shadow Lords had possessed me completely. For about ten minutes. But then something unexpected happened—I started fighting back from the inside. Not with strength or magic, but with something they couldn’t understand.
Love for my kids.