Chapter 81 Levi’s Angry
Despite everything that had happened, not once did the Royal Family come to retrieve Claire, nor did they send anyone to console or persuade her, as if she held no value to them at all. It was strange. Unsettling. Suspicious. Given her supposed importance and her connection to the palace, such disregard was highly unusual.
Even now, with the truth of what had happened beginning to emerge, there were still no summons, no punishment decreed—nothing. While it was clear the Alpha King was isolating their pack, something both Levi and Zion had sensed early on, the complete lack of action from the Royal Court was beginning to feel like more than just royal indifference. It felt calculated.
It could only mean one of two things: either the Royal Family was planning something big against their pack, or they simply didn’t care at all. That thought made Levi pause, really pause. And it wasn’t the first time he’d asked himself this: had the Alpha King and Queen already given up on their daughter?
Maybe, in their eyes, Claire had been tainted—no longer fit to be heir to the throne.
Rumors had long circulated that the royal palace was now raising the only legitimate daughter of the Alpha King’s brother. If Levi followed that line of thought, everything started to make a terrible kind of sense.
Claire was just a shadow of who she once was. The formidable warrior-princess known across the land had vanished. Since her abduction, she’d lost her edge, her fire. Worse, she had become pregnant out of wedlock and had even failed to protect her child.
Given all that, was it any wonder the Alpha King might now see no value in bringing her back?
Was this their way of quietly demoting her—stripping her of her title without ever having to declare it out loud?
Levi thought hard. It was a bitter pill to swallow for Claire, but the pieces fit. After all, Claire’s cousin—her childhood playmate—had reportedly learned everything she had about ruling. Unlike Claire, the cousin had a natural talent for politics and was thriving in the court. She might lack Claire’s physical strength, but her grip on the nobles was ironclad.