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

I grunted and sat

of doubt in the younger wolves too.

do we do? Aurora and Dane are already stretched thin. How do we fight

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

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

focus on showing the pack what

without

***

the form of Trajan, who approached me outside

carried a small bunch

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the training arena,” he said,

them to me.

unfolded the notes, my stomach clenching as I read Alina’s

were clear and damning, outlining her plans to pitt the younger wolves against Aurora

for weeks,” I said,

Warrick.

proof

show this

just as we

for my outburst, yesterday,” Dane

me, “I don’t think

be the one apologizing for refusing

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

my queen,”

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eyes wide as I screamed, ‘yes‘ in my

his throat

I frowned as I followed him. I noticed

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

over the table.

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

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

set for

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

unreadable.

for silence among

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

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scanned the sea of faces until they came to rest

on Rowan.

most resilient when unity binds us all together, and it’s been under attack for a number

and misunderstandings have sprouted, and now is a

shifted uncomfortably, to which Alina

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