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PIPER

As I entered the common hall, the pungent smell of dew and pine traveled in the morning air.

My mind jumped back to the note Dane had spoken of but I had no idea as far as its contents were concerned.

The itch in my head seemed to have turned disturbing and so my eyes began searching the room for a clue of any sort.

It was a stray piece of paper on the edge of the table where Alina had sat during yesterday’s meeting half concealed under a folded napkin that first caught my eye as the hall began filling with wolves readying for the tasks of the day.

My brow furrowed as I reached for it, my fingers brushing against the rough papers.

The moment the note opened in my hand, my stomach somersaulted. The script was squeezed, rushed, and unfamiliar.

All it said was, “Keep the next move discreet. They can’t suspect. anything yet.”

I closed my fingers more tightly over the paper as my gaze flashed around the room. Alina wasn’t anywhere, yet I could sense her behind me, lurking like a ghost.

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“Warrick,” I whispered, clenching his arm as he strode into the training ground later that afternoon..

He froze mid stride, the perpetual grin on his face faltering as he took in the look on my face.

“What’s wrong?”

I held up the note, my voice low and urgent. “I found this near Alina’s seat after yesterday’s meeting. It’s. suspicious.”

He took the note from me, brows furrowing as he read. “What the hell is this?

“That’s what we need to find out,” I said, crossing my arms. “I don’t trust her, Warrick. There’s something she’s hiding, and if we don’t figure it out”

“She’s going to get away with it,” he finished, his voice hardening.

I nodded. “Exactly.”

For a moment, Warrick’s gaze flickered with hesitation. Then he sighed, shoving the note into his pocket. “All right. Where do we

start?”

We had spent hours checking her usual haunts: the storage shed near the edge of the village, the abandoned cottage she would often sneak to under the pretense of “training,” even her

quarters.

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lead turned up

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set in. Warrick slumped against the side of

sneaky, but she’s not stupid. If she’s hiding

front of him, my

Alina

the heat in his

my footsteps, my eyes drifting toward the packhouse. “Her stash,” I murmured,

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

voice whittling down to bone with

Alina’s no different. We

way methodically through every

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a floorboard,

hundredth empty drawer. “This

I insisted, though my own

to waver.

stopped by the edge. His brow furrowed as he crouched, his hand brushing against the

said,

ran to his side, my heart

loose. It showed

pulling the

each one more damning than

between Alina and someone outside the pack, someone she

to sow discord, and to exploit

letter, in particular, made my blood

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old mill tomorrow night. We’ll

then.”

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Warrick repeated, turning to me. “We have one of these

near the river, I think it has not been in use

up to something. And we just got ourselves in the

it

this to Aurora.”

accuse Alina

the balance weighing upon me like a boulder. “Tomorrow night,

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

light of the packhouse, the weight of what we’d uncovered

letters in my hand, my fingers clenching on the fragile papers. The mere idea of what Alina could be planning tied my

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until tomorrow?” I

“Wel keep our heads down.

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