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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Rowan is vulnerable to this,” I heard Warrick say from behind

I grunted and sat on

doubt in the younger wolves too. If we

already stretched thin. How do we fight someone who thrives on whispers and manipulation? Isn’t he

terms,” he said. “We outthink her. If Alina’s strength is in turning words into weapons, then we need to show

inside of me.

on showing the pack

without an answer

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form of Trajan, who approached me

bunch

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behind in the training arena,” he said,

them to me.

the notes, my stomach clenching as I

damning, outlining her plans to pitt the younger wolves

this for weeks,” I said,

Warrick.

is the proof we’ve been

show this to

just as we had it,

Dane said as

to me, “I don’t think

should be the one apologizing for refusing to listen

as he tried to pull me away. I jerked off my hands. I don’t want to miss this amazing moment between the

my queen,”

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and I opened my eyes wide as

cleared his throat and entered

have to do that, I frowned as I followed him. I noticed

all out, everything we had seen, every word we had

notes had been spread over

But this is something that requires strategy on how to present it. She

game in public, we’ll take the stage and show the pack who she really

set for

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

unreadable.

hand for silence among

of tension built

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sea of faces until they came

on Rowan.

resilient when unity binds us all together, and it’s been under attack for a number

and now is a very

shifted uncomfortably, to which

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