The Last Howling: The Alpha King’s Revenge
The auction hammer fell—and with it, his daughter was declared a “gift.”
In the underground banquet hall where city elites toasted power behind velvet curtains, the former Alpha King stood at the edge of the crowd in a worn coat, watching his child’s name appear on a gilded screen. No one recognized him anymore. To them, he was just a failed widower who’d disappeared from the werewolf hierarchy years ago. To him, this was the moment the past stopped being buried.
He didn’t argue. He didn’t beg. He calmly placed a ring on the table—ancient, cracked, engraved with a sigil no one had seen in decades. The music stuttered. The security feeds glitched. On the giant screens, sealed contracts and blood-oath recordings began to play, exposing how the council had traded heirs like currency, how his rival had built power by selling “protection” to humans and wolves alike. Murmurs turned to panic as guests realized their secrets were being broadcast far beyond the room.
When guards rushed him, the air shifted. A low howl cut through crystal and steel, vibrating in bone. Veins darkened. Eyes glowed. The power he’d locked away for his daughter’s safety surged back—controlled, deliberate. This wasn’t a rampage. It was a reclaiming. Each step he took tightened the circle, each revelation raising the stakes, until even his rival understood: the king hadn’t returned for revenge alone.
As sirens wailed outside and the council’s escape routes sealed one by one, he leaned close to the trembling man who’d ordered his child delivered like a prize.
“This is not the end,” he said softly. “It’s the hunt.”
Somewhere beneath his sleeve, an old mark burned to life—unfinished, unstoppable—waiting for the final howl to be unleashed.