Chapter 25

Adelaide’s POV

I returned to my courtyard and immediately penned a letter, dispatching a former Frostfang guard–shifted and under cover

Warscar Training Camp by night.

The southern border battle gnawed at me like a splinter.

Scattered clues hinted at something amiss, but I’d keep conjectures buried until hard evidence surfaced.

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My maternal grandfather, Alpha Zander, and my two uncles had been stationed at the border for years. Last winter, they deployed

with wolf warriors to aid the Southern Tribe’s war effort. When the Western Tribe retaliated, Bloodmoon lacked the warriors to

hold the line.

Ulrik and Velda had gone to reinforce them, but what exactly transpired on the battlefield?

For the following month, I sealed Frostfang’s borders.

I appointed suitable individuals as Beta, Gamma, and wolf guard captain–all loyal Frostfang members.

The new Beta, now returned from retirement, had served Frostfang before the new Beta took over.

His silver–flecked temples were a stark reminder of his experience.

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That night, after a run along the border and a soak in the tub, I emerged to find Beata entering with a letter.

message for

note unfurled in my palm, searing pain erupted–wolf

deciphering the script, my wolf erupted in a

from my elongated claws, carving deep trenches

self–mutilation screamed

of cedar and

massacred an entire surrendered village. Border wolf generals have jointly petitioned

drifted through the fog, “What’s

at my reflection and said, “Fetch a bottle

Heata hurried out. Once alone, I suppressed the rising

air, and the note–now

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script, each stroke disintegrating

have always spared

have

averted gaze when he spoke of “battlefield ruthlessness,” the pieces clicked. Their “victory” was baptized

civilian blood

returned with the vodka, I

pierced the night. I traced the wolf–head engraving on my glass

I return victorious,

built

suspicions solidified–this

massacre of an entire village, including civilians, has ignited the Western Tribe’s

members to settle both new and old

Western Tribe’s forces at

way of avenging past

I was

Velda did massacre the village, the

forces and attack the Bloodscar Border to

peace treaty with Velda, delineating the

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