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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heard Warrick say from behind me and I flinched, I turned and saw him leaning on

I grunted and sat on

him anymore. Alina’s been planting seeds of doubt in the younger wolves too. If we do not act fast, it can get out of hand,”

“What do we do? Aurora and Dane are already stretched thin. How do we fight someone who thrives on whispers and manipulation? Isn’t

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, then we need to show the pack

words soothed something inside of me. “You’re right,” I

need to focus on showing the pack

without an answer to

***

answer arrived in the form of Trajan, who

a small bunch

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the training arena,” he

them to me.

the notes, my stomach

damning, outlining her plans to pitt the

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

Warrick.

proof we’ve been waiting

need to show this to Aurora immediately,”

to Aurora’s Quarters, and just as

Dane said as

who whispered to me, “I don’t think this is the right

you, Dane, I should be the one apologizing for refusing to listen

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

don’t have to apologize, my

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my eyes wide as I

his

frowned as I followed him. I noticed Aurora’s

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

had been spread over the table.

to confront her. But this is something that requires strategy on how to present it. She will turn

Alina wants to play this game in public, we’ll take the

set

clearing by nightfall, their murmurs growing loud as Aurora and Dane stepped

unreadable.

hand for

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

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faces until

on Rowan.

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

sprouted, and now is a very good time to clear the

shifted uncomfortably, to which Alina smiled

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