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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to this,” I heard Warrick say from

grunted and sat on

Alina’s been planting seeds of doubt in the younger wolves too. If we do not

“What do we do? Aurora and Dane are already stretched thin. How do we

laying his hands on my shoulders. “Her,” he said, ” Alina is the 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,

of me.

need to focus on showing the pack what Alina really is.

went to bed without an answer to

***

morning, the answer arrived in the form of Trajan, who approached me outside

small bunch of notes,

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were left behind in the

them to me.

the notes, my stomach clenching as I read

outlining her plans to pitt

planning this for weeks,” I said,

Warrick.

the proof we’ve been waiting

show this to Aurora immediately,”

and just as we had

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

whispered to me, “I don’t

be the one apologizing for refusing to listen

Trajan standing by the door, and Trajan took a few quiet steps back as he tried to pull me away. I jerked off my hands. I don’t want to miss

have to apologize, my queen,” Dane said

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I opened my eyes

his

that, I frowned as I followed him. I

laid it all out,

had been spread over the table. The contents

it, this is the proof we need to confront her. But this is something that requires strategy on how to present it. She will turn this against us

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

set

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

unreadable.

for silence among

she said, opening, “there’s been lots of tension built up in this pack,

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faces until

on Rowan.

is at its most resilient when unity binds us all together, and it’s been under

now is a very good time to

shifted uncomfortably, to

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