The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 577

Chapter 577: Chapter 577 Claire VS Addison

And if the Royal Family, the pillar that held the entire kingdom together, couldn’t present a united front, unrest would spread like wildfire across every territory.

The kingdom’s enemies wouldn’t even need to attack.

They would simply sit back and watch it tear itself apart from within.

Addison’s gaze hardened.

Claire had calculated every step.

That was precisely why she’d chosen this moment, in front of every minister, Alpha, and elder, to reveal her lineage.

She wasn’t introducing herself.

She was wrapping herself in the Royal Family’s protection, daring anyone, especially Addison, to make a move against her.

Although Claire’s lineage had been uncovered long ago, the Alpha King had immediately placed a gag order on the matter, forbidding anyone from spreading the truth. As a result, only those who had personally witnessed his younger brother reveal Claire’s identity knew of her true heritage, while everyone else remained completely in the dark.

That was precisely why the Alpha King’s brother had deliberately brought Claire before the council and later presented her during the royal banquet. He wanted every influential Alpha, elder, and minister in attendance to see her with their own eyes and recognize the bloodline she carried.

Claire did not disappoint her father in the slightest. The two moved with the same purpose, thinking several steps ahead, each action perfectly complementing the other’s. It was clear they were of one mind, and together they were quietly shifting the balance of power inside the kingdom.

Meanwhile, Mila could only grit her teeth.

In what should have been her moment, she had instead been reduced to nothing more than the backdrop, a convenient stepping stone Claire had effortlessly used to elevate herself before the kingdom’s most powerful figures. The realization burned like acid in her chest.

When Mila instinctively looked toward Addison, she caught the faintest glint in her cousin’s eyes before it disappeared as though it had never existed.

Anyone else would have missed it.

But Mila wouldn’t.

They had grown up together. Even if Addison had lost her memories, the habits engraved into her body had never truly vanished. That fleeting gleam, the subtle tightening around her eyes, the almost imperceptible lift of her chin, those were unmistakable signs. Addison had accepted Claire’s challenge.

Silently.

Without uttering a single word.

Mila knew Addison well enough to understand that she would never allow such a direct provocation to go unanswered.

Yet instead of reassuring her, that realization only made the bitterness inside Mila deepen.

Because no matter which side emerged victorious, she would merely become collateral damage, another pawn crushed beneath two women fighting the same political war which was the throne.

Claire wanted it, but Addison would not surrender it.

And if Mila was honest with herself... she coveted it as well.

That was the cruelest part of all.

She wasn’t merely watching two rivals clash over the crown.

She was watching her own ambitions slowly disappear beneath the shadows of two women whose brilliance and backing threatened to leave her as nothing more than an afterthought.

And Mila was right.

But did Claire truly believe that everything Addison had suffered in the Midnight River Pack was some shameful secret she desperately wanted buried?

How laughable.

Addison had endured every kind of humiliation imaginable during her years there. She had been mocked, isolated, betrayed, and dragged through the mud by countless wolves who wanted nothing more than to see her break. They schemed against her openly, waiting for the day she would finally fall.

Did Claire honestly think those scars were enough to shake her?

Of course, in the wrong hands, that past could become a dangerous weapon. Rumors and half-truths always were. But Addison hadn’t risen to become Zion’s Luna by being na?ve.

She had learned, through blood and bitter experience, how to wage war without ever drawing a blade.

Every negotiation with the neighboring Alpha Packs had been its own battlefield. They looked down on her because she was a woman. They mocked her because she was wolfless. They assumed she was nothing more than a decorative Luna with no authority of her own.

Every meeting began with contempt.

’Here it comes...’

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