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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from behind me and I flinched,

I grunted and sat on

not about him anymore. Alina’s been planting seeds of doubt in the younger wolves

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

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

of me. “You’re right,” I

focus on showing the pack

without an answer to

***

answer arrived in the form of Trajan, who

bunch of notes,

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the training arena,” he

them to me.

stomach clenching as

damning, outlining her plans to pitt the younger wolves

this for weeks,” I said,

Warrick.

the proof

to show this to Aurora immediately,”

rushed to Aurora’s Quarters, and just as we

Dane said as he took

to Trajan who whispered to me, “I don’t

you, Dane, I should 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

my queen,”

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I opened my eyes wide as

his throat and

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

intently as I laid it all out, everything we had seen,

spread over the table. The contents were

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 to present it. She will turn this against

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

set

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

unreadable.

hand for

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

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scanned the sea of faces

on Rowan.

binds us all together, and it’s been under attack

and misunderstandings have sprouted, and now is a very

this, Rowan shifted uncomfortably,

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