---- Chapter 30 Becky's POV Acold gasp escaped my lips. "You can't do this! This is sacred pack land!" A tall enforcer stepped forward, his amber irises glimmering like ember-lit coals beneath a shadowed brow. "By order of the Alpha Council, Becky Blackridge, you stand accused of attacking Luna Kiera Grimsbane and causing the death of her unborn heir. You are hereby taken into custody." The silver-infused cuffs clicked into place with a cruel finality, the burn of wolfsbane searing my skin like fire under frost. Tears welled up and fell as I twisted toward Alpha Michael. "Please... don't let them take me." ---- His jaw was set in stone, his body trembling from the effort of suppressing the wolf clawing at his skin. "This is a farce," he snarled, voice low and lethal. "T won't allow this to stand." An enforcer recited my rights, voice as flat as stone, while another dragged me toward the exit. Behind them, Alpha David leaned against the wall, his smirk curved like a sickle, feeding on my pain with quiet satisfaction. Kiera's trap had sprung perfectly. Now, every wolf believed I'd spilled innocent blood. "Don't touch me!" I cried out, struggling as the chains bit deeper, each movement slicing me with silver's cruel sting. They dragged me to a rune- marked black transport van that reeked of magic and imprisonment. My heart pounded like prey caught under a hunter's gaze. My lungs tightened as panic surged. ---- Not long ago, I was harvesting feverfew in the healer's garden. Then came the screaming, the scent of blood-Kiera's blood-and now this. A rogue. That's what they were treating me as. "Wait!" Alpha Michael's voice thundered like a true Alpha's command. He shoved through the enforcers, fury rolling off him in waves, his aura wild and electric. "You will not take my fated mate without a proper tribunal!" The lead enforcer didn't even blink. "Stand down, Alpha Michael." "She's innocent!" he snapped, his tone vibrating with Alpha authority. "Tf you interfere again, we will be forced to subdue you as well," another warned, their posture stiffening like arrows nocked in tension.