Chapter Eighty five

CHAPTER 85

The rage, the blinding and consuming fury had ebbed away leaving behind a vast and empty space where it once raged. Now, in the stillness of the study, Alpha Landon was left with a chilling reality. His hands, still trembling, were stained red, and a horrifyingly familiar scent lingered in the air, the metallic tang of blood.

Landon's gaze fell on the body sprawled on the plush rug, the face contorted in a grotesque mask of pain. Leo Madison, Zoe's father, his father-in-law, a man he had once considered an ally. Now, he was nothing more than a corpse.

Panic cold and sharp pierced through the fog of his lingering anger. He was lost, adrift in a sea of fear and confusion. He had crossed a line, a line that couldn't be unseen, couldn't be undone. He had to get out of here, to escape the suffocating weight of his crime.

Landon tiptoed out of the study, his heart pounding like a runaway drum. He navigated the silent corridors of his sprawling manor, his movements furtive, his ga