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

I grunted and sat on

Alina’s been planting seeds of doubt in the younger wolves too. If

to him. “What do we do? Aurora and Dane are already stretched thin. How do we fight someone who thrives on whispers

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 the truth. Actions speak louder

inside of me. “You’re right,”

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

bed without an answer to that

***

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

carried a small bunch of notes, his expression

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left behind in the

them to me.

notes, my stomach clenching as I

words were clear and damning, outlining her plans to pitt the younger

planning this for weeks,” I said, handing the

Warrick.

proof we’ve been

need to show this to Aurora

just as

yesterday,” Dane said

Trajan who whispered to me, “I

be the one apologizing for refusing

a few quiet steps back as he tried to pull me away. I

my queen,” Dane said and

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I opened my eyes

Trajan cleared his throat and entered the

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

as I laid it all out, everything we had

had been spread over

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

this game

was set

as Aurora and

unreadable.

for silence

all for coming,” she said, opening, “there’s been lots of tension built up in

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faces

on Rowan.

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

and now is a very good

uncomfortably, to which Alina smiled

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