Lilith pov

The entire place fell into a stunned silence, so thick you could hear a pin drop. Every eye was on me, wide and unblinking, mouths slightly agape, breaths held as I was wrapped in Claude’s arms, staring down the three men before me. They couldn’t have been more different from one another, yet each wore the same expression: pride.

Not because I had defeated the men as Lilith. But pride because I had done it as their beta. Pride because I had proven that they had made the right choice. Even though I knew they didn’t really care about anyone else’s opinions, there was a faint flicker of...