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 me and

here?” I grunted and sat on my

seeds of doubt in the younger wolves too. If we do not act fast, it can get out of hand,”

and Dane are already stretched thin. How do we fight

” Alina is the problem and we don’t fight her on her terms,” he said. “We outthink her. If

words soothed something inside of me. “You’re

to focus on showing the pack what Alina really is.

bed without an answer

***

arrived in the form of

a small bunch of notes, his

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behind in the training arena,” he said,

them to me.

the notes, my stomach

and damning, outlining her plans to pitt the younger

for weeks,” I said, handing the notes

Warrick.

is the proof we’ve been waiting

show this to Aurora

and just as we had it, Dane was there with

for my outburst, yesterday,” Dane said as he took

whispered to me,

one apologizing for refusing to

quiet steps back as he tried to pull me away. I jerked off my hands. I don’t want

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

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Aurora and I opened my eyes wide

cleared his

I frowned as I followed

and Dane listened intently as I laid it all out, everything we had seen, every word

notes had been spread over the table. The contents were

need to confront her. But this is something that requires strategy on how to present it.

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

meeting was set for

in the clearing by nightfall, their murmurs growing loud as Aurora and

unreadable.

raised her hand for silence among the

lots of tension built up in this pack, and

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scanned the sea of faces until they came

on Rowan.

unity binds us all together, and

misunderstandings have sprouted, and now is a very good time to

shifted uncomfortably, to which Alina smiled

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