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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have always known that Rowan is vulnerable to this,” I heard Warrick say from behind me and I flinched, I turned and saw him leaning

I grunted and

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

already stretched thin. How do we fight

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

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

the pack what

went to bed without

***

form

small bunch of

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were left behind in the training arena,”

them to me.

my stomach

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

this for weeks,” I said,

Warrick.

the proof

to show this to Aurora

and just as

for my outburst, yesterday,” Dane

me, “I

one apologizing for

me and Trajan standing by the door, and Trajan took a few quiet steps back as he tried to pull

my queen,”

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and I opened my eyes wide as

his throat

as I followed him. I noticed

laid it all out, everything

over

proof we need to confront her. But this is something that requires strategy on how to present it. She

to play this game

set for that

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

unreadable.

hand for silence among

she said, opening, “there’s been lots of tension built

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faces until they came to rest

on Rowan.

resilient when unity binds us all together, and it’s been

is a very good time to clear the

uncomfortably,

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