Chapter 261

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ALINA

“Pity”

There was something that I liked about Aurora that didn’t waste words on formalities when they might get in the way.

I was on my way to disturb her again the next day she was already in sight when I suddenly heard a sound.

Aurora’s head snapped toward the sound, her body moving instinctively before her mind could catch up.

“What’s happening?” she asked, already stepping away.

I followed, my pulse quickening as a faint orange glow lit up the

horizon.

The flicker of flames danced against the sky, and my mind raced

to make sense of it.

This wasn’t part of any plan. The devised chaos like this only worked when it was controlled.

I soon arrived at the village center, where wolves were by now struggling to put out the fire.

A big sack of hay near one of the store sheds had gone up in

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flame, lashing hungrily with their tongues of fire against the wooden structure.

“Get water!” Dane yelled above the noise of uproar, and his commanding appearance snapped the wolves into action.

In an instant, Aurora was at his side, her voice piercing the noise, sharp with instructions.

“Form a line from the well! Move, move!”

I hung to the edge of the chaos, watching the scene unfold.

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enough to sow panic among the pack. The perfect kind of

wolves were distracted by trying to restrain the fire, and

were deliberate,

the fire suspiciously so I went to the largest, its darkness deep

damp, smelling of earth

where a stack of old

covered in dust.

with a practiced hand and found a

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of letters, tucked

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cracks on

rough handwriting

eyes narrowing to fit together fragments of thoughts of

“Foolish boy,” I grumbled.

in my

anybody who came into it would tell, would seem not

or otherwise and I now had what I needed to stay one step

the fire was smothered,

stood with Dane, her shoulders down but her

strength is in our response,” she said, her

were tested, and we came

werewolves nodded their heads toward her softer

response.

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and half of

attention again

darkness once more, my steps

way Aurora commanded her pack, the way they looked to her for guidance. It was admirable, in a way. But it also

determination to protect them,

until it was

I would make sure

left of the murmuring crowd, the words soothing like balm

will investigate this

rest assured, we’ll find how it came about and

her, his hand on her shoulder, in a

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