Chapter 150

ZAREK

I held my breath.

Alpha Rowan?

I had heard of him—a powerful Alpha who was supposed to have been killed along with his wife.

But this? It didn’t make any sense.

“That’s impossible. He and his wife were killed,” I said, my voice barely audible.

“They were,” Lizzy confirmed, her eyes darkening with the weight of the truth. “Nikolas’s father and boss conspired to kill Alpha Rowan and his wife as part of a twisted plan to seize power. When the plan went south and Boss was discarded, he hid the truth from you to protect his own agenda.”

The room felt like it was spinning, with the walls closing in as the reality of her words sank in.

I felt like I was falling, unable to grasp anything solid.

The man who raised me, who trained me, who I trusted—he’d kept this from me my entire life.

I had lived in the shadow of a lie.

“So, everything I thought I knew... was a lie?”

Lizzy nodded; her expression pained. “He kept you in the dark because he didn’t want you to know where you really