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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Rowan is vulnerable to this,” I heard Warrick say from behind me

grunted and sat on

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

stretched thin. How do

fight her on her terms,” he said. “We outthink her. If Alina’s strength is in turning words into

inside of me.

the pack

bed without an answer to

***

in the form of Trajan, who approached me outside

small bunch of notes, his expression

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were left behind in the training arena,”

them to me.

my stomach clenching as I

her plans to pitt the younger

for weeks,”

Warrick.

is the proof we’ve been

need to show this to Aurora immediately,” Trajan

to Aurora’s Quarters, and just as we had

sorry for my outburst, yesterday,” Dane

to Trajan who whispered to me,

should be the one apologizing

and Trajan took a few quiet steps back as he tried to pull me away. I jerked

have to apologize, my queen,” Dane said and

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and I opened my eyes wide as

Trajan cleared his

I frowned as I followed him. I noticed Aurora’s cheeks flush as

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

notes had been spread over the

need to confront her. But this is something that requires strategy on how

this game

was set

murmurs growing loud as Aurora and Dane stepped forward, Rowan and Alina stood at the

unreadable.

hand for

opening, “there’s been lots of tension

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the sea of faces until

on Rowan.

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

have sprouted, and now is a

this, Rowan shifted uncomfortably, to

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