Satisfaction spread across her face.

"Don't worry, little bastard. I'll find your bastard father soon enough. Your whole wretched family can reunite in death."

The words had barely left her mouth when a howl split the sky above Shadowfang territory. It was not a wolf's howl and not a man's voice. It was something older than both, rolling down from the heavens, shaking the air itself:

"What have you done?"

Hundreds of wolves, shifted and unshifted, descended on the courtyard of the Abyssal Den like a storm breaking.

The Supreme Alpha had arrived.

And with him, hundreds of the most powerful Alphas across the Six Great Packs, every one of them summoned to witness the birth of the Prophesied Alpha.