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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Warrick say from behind me and I flinched, I

and

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

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

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

soothed something inside of

to focus on showing the pack what Alina really is.

bed without

***

arrived in the form of

carried a small bunch of notes, his expression

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the

them to me.

notes, my stomach clenching as I read

damning, outlining her plans to pitt

this for weeks,” I said,

Warrick.

is the proof

to show this

and just as we

my outburst, yesterday,” Dane said

whispered to me, “I don’t think

I should be the one apologizing for refusing to

Trajan standing by the door, and Trajan took a few quiet steps back as he tried to pull me

apologize, my queen,” Dane said

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eyes wide as I screamed,

his throat and entered the

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

I laid it all out, everything we had seen, every word we had

over the

time,” Aurora said in 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

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

was set

had assembled in the clearing by nightfall, their murmurs growing loud as Aurora and Dane stepped forward, Rowan

unreadable.

hand for

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

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of faces until they

on Rowan.

us all together,

and misunderstandings have sprouted, and now is a very good

shifted uncomfortably, to which

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