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 you,” she

my palm, searing pain erupted–wolf claws bursting through

erupted in

elongated claws, carving deep trenches

self–mutilation screamed a

parchment, reeking of cedar and violet pheromones, bore

village. Border wolf

drifted through the fog, “What’s

and said, “Fetch a

as Heata hurried out. Once alone, I suppressed the rising wolfish

the air, and the note–now scorched at the edges–was

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the swirling ash, invisible claws shredded the script, each

have always spared civilians

have broken

when he spoke of “battlefield ruthlessness,” the

civilian blood

with the vodka, I was calm, though the pour

wolf–head engraving

said, “When I return

victories are built on mountains of

solidified–this

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

our elderly and vulnerable members

the Western

way of avenging past defeats and present

was

I didn’t understand is, if Velda did massacre the village, the Western Tribe wolves

their forces and attack the Bloodscar Border to avenge the innocent civilians, rather

with Velda, delineating the border and

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