A Female Alpha’s Revenge

Chapter 38

Ulrik’s POV

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I was about to leave with Velda when a light cough from Lycan Erasmus sounded behind us.

We turned, and Erasmus’s gaze locked onto Velda’s forehead.

“You’ve pledged to reach the southern border before the Western Tribes. I trust it’s not an empty promise. Should you turn the tide,” his claw traced the wolf–tooth carving on his throne, “I’ll reward you handsomely.”

Velda knelt on one knee, her ice–spiked pauldrons glinting. “I swear by the Bloodmoon Pack’s

totem.”

As Velda and I left, Erasmus was still deep in discussion about supplies.

This battle was decisive. None would accept failure now.

My boots clicked urgently on the marble floor.

Outside the palace, a snowstorm lashed at us with icy pellets. I frowned and said, “This mission’s impossible!”

I dragged Velda into the shadow of a wolf statue. Cedar and mint pheromones clashed. “They’ve been gone for over ten days. We haven’t even set off. How can we possibly outrun them?”

can, then we will,” Velda interrupted, brushing my

with ambition. “There’s nothing that can’t be

to the Bloodscar Border. Now, with only twenty days, how can we make

away my concerns. “Let’s head back to

too. But I’ll prove Adelaide’s tricks are useless. Only by earning merits on the battlefield

Adelaide’s name,

piercing my gloves. “When we dissolved

still entangled with her? I think she’s playing hard

I said, suppressing my anger. “I told you, I went to Frostfang to consult Shaman Digby. My mother’s illness requires more than medicine. Shaman

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she? Who knows what schemes

face, feeling annoyed. “We’re heading into battle. Let’s not

voice carried a

spine, growling discontentedly. “Why does she frustrate me so

trying to

realized the tension between

she said, “You’re the one who won’t let me mention her. Your defensiveness only fuels

said, taking her hand,

warriors,” Velda sighed, her resolve hardening. “But I’ll make you see that taking me as your mate is the Bloodmoon Pack’s greatest fortune. Adelaide can only

indeed my

strange that the Western Tribes would ally with the Dragon Ash to attack

coldly. “The pact only binds the Bloodscar Border. The southern border remains unconquered, with Frostbite and

grip on the wolf–head military token, my finger tracing the battle

and Western Tribes seldom