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CHAPTER 29: THE PROCESS
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KAI'S POV The study was the only room in the manor where no one entered without permission. I had made it that way deliberately, years ago, when I first took my place as Alpha. A sanctuary. A room where the weight of leadership could be set down, if only for an hour. Where the mask could come off and I could be something other than what everyone needed me to be. Tonight, the mask was suffocating me. I stood at the window, staring out at darkness I couldn't see. My reflection stared back at me from the glass. Hollow-eyed. Jaw tight. A man who had spent the last four days pretending he wasn't falling apart. Behind me, the portrait hung on the wall. My father. The Alpha King. Painted when he was younger than I was now, his expression stern and certain, the weight of a crown he hadn't yet inherited already visible in the set of his shoulders. I had been staring at that portrait my entire life. Had measured myself against it. Had tried to become the man it represented. Tonight
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