Chapter 244

Piper

As Warrick and I finally managed to catch our breath, the sound. of Rowan’s voice brought us both back down to earth.

“They’re blind to what’s coming,” he snapped.

Warrick and I looked at one another once, and nodded, mine angling toward the trees.

“We have to stop this,” I whispered.

But as we drew closer, Alina’s gaze sliced in our direction; the smirk twisted in her face told me she knew we were there.

Alina said nothing to Rowan, but the smirk deepened as her eyes lugged in our direction.

My heart rammed in my chest, not in fear but in frustration.

She knew we watched her and she wanted us to know that she was fearless.

I touched Warrick’s arm, gesturing for us to back further into the shadows.

“We can’t confront them here,” I whispered. “She’ll twist it to make us look like the aggressors.”

Warrick nodded, his jaw clenched in anger that he was fighting

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“Then we need more evidence,” he said. “We can’t keep chasing shadows. We need something concrete to take back to Aurora.

As we slipped back through the trees, Rowan’s voice carried

once more.

“This isn’t about chaos, Alina. I want them to respect me. To see me as someone worthy of leading.”

Her laugh was soft and laced with mockery. “Respect is overrated, Rowan. Power control is what matters. Respect follows those who take what they want.”

I could see hesitation was written all over his face all the way from where we were hiding.

A small spark of hope flared for a moment; maybe, just maybe, he would manage to see through her manipulations after all.

But Alina moved in closer, brushing her hand against his arm.

“Don’t doubt yourself now,” she purred. “You’ve come this far. You deserve this.”

Rowan had nothing to say, but in the silence that fell, his words

resounded loud.

Soon we got back to the pack house, I entered my room and nearly punched the wall as I slammed the door shut..

“She’s twisting it all,” I growled. “She’s taking all his insecurities. and using them to arm him up against us.”

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that Rowan is vulnerable to this,” I heard Warrick say from behind me and I flinched, I turned and

here?” I grunted and sat on my

the younger wolves too.

we do? Aurora and Dane are already stretched thin. How do we fight someone who thrives on whispers

problem and we don’t fight her on her terms,” he said. “We outthink her. If Alina’s strength is in turning words into weapons, then we need to

inside of me. “You’re right,”

focus on showing the pack what Alina really

bed without an

***

in the form of Trajan, who

bunch of

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behind in the training

them to me.

the notes, my stomach clenching as

outlining her plans to pitt the younger wolves against

been planning this for weeks,” I said, handing the

Warrick.

the proof we’ve been waiting

to show this to Aurora immediately,”

as we had it, Dane was there

Dane

me, “I don’t think

one apologizing for refusing to listen to you,”

quiet steps back as he tried to pull me away. I jerked off my

don’t have to apologize, my queen,” Dane said and

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eyes

ERM,” Trajan cleared his throat and

he have to do that, I frowned as I followed him. I noticed Aurora’s cheeks

all out, everything we had seen,

spread over the table. The contents

a firm, even tone. “This is it, this is the proof we need to confront her. But this is something that requires strategy on how to

to play this game in public, we’ll take the stage and show the pack who she

was set for that

nightfall, their murmurs growing loud as Aurora and Dane stepped forward, Rowan and Alina stood at the edge of

unreadable.

hand for silence among

she said, opening, “there’s been lots of tension built up in this pack, and it’s time we aired them

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of faces until they

on Rowan.

resilient when unity binds us all together,

and misunderstandings have sprouted, and now is a

shifted uncomfortably, to which Alina

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