Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV

The morning light filtered through my office windows as I stared at the tactical map spread across my desk. Red pins marked recent

rogue attacks along our eastern border. Each pin represented lives disrupted, territory threatened, families put at risk.

“Here, here, and here,” Marcus pointed to three locations with his thick finger. “All within the past week. They’re getting bolder.”

“Or more desperate,” Lucas added, leaning back in his chair. “We’ve been hitting them hard for the past month. Maybe they’re running

out of safe places to hide.”

I picked up one of the pins, rolling it between my fingers. “How many did we take down at the Campbell farm?”

“Seven,” Marcus replied. “But at least three got away. They scattered into the woods before we could track them all.”

“We need to change tactics,” I said, my voice cutting through the morning quiet. “Stop reacting to their attacks and start hunting them

down.”

Lucas shifted in his seat. “Damien, we’ve been pushing the teams pretty hard. The warriors are exhausted.”

“Then we get more warriors.” I set the pin down with enough force to make it bounce. “I want every able-bodied wolf in this pack ready

to fight.”

“Are you sure that’s necessary?” Lucas’s voice carried that careful tone he used when he thought I was making decisions based on

emotion rather than logic.

I looked up at him, meeting his concerned gaze with steel. “T Absolutely.”

The silence stretched between us. Marcus cleared his throat uncomfortably.

Lucas leaned forward. “Then let’s end this. For good.”

My phone buzzed. Emma’s voice came through the intercom.

“Mr. Nightshadow? Your nine o’clock is here.”

“Send them in.”

The door opened, and three pack elders entered-Henry, William, and Catherine. Their faces were grave, worried. The kind of

expressions that usually meant political problems.

“We need to discuss the pack’s…

across from

Catherine said, settling her bulk into the chair.

relocating to safer territories.”

added. “Nobody wants to live that

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set my jaw. “Then we eliminate rogue

back to the map. “Total war. We find every rogue camp, every hideout, every safe house within a hundred-mile

them all to the

went dead silent. I could feel their shock,

started, then

“Good. It’s

my office with yet another coffee and stack of reports I didn’t need. She’d been doing this more frequently lately-finding excuses to hover, to check

o’clock conference call went well,” she said, setting the coffee

I didn’t look up from the quarterly reports I was

lingered by my desk, and I could feel her watching me with those dark eyes that seemed to

look tired,” she said softly. “Have you been

in another one of her perfectly tailored

But there was something else there. Something that

“I sleep fine.”

course.” Her smile was warm, understanding. “It’s just… you’ve been working

too hard.”

appreciate the concern,” I said coolly, “but

to a more intimate tone. “I was wondering if you’d like to

relaxed setting” mo

Nothing formal, just…

a

face flushed

I just

theant,

Scolleagues”

that deadly quiet that made grown wolves step back. “The only

Professionally. Without any personal commentary

nodded quickly, her face pale. “Of

it happen

nowhere near done with the day. Adrian would need dinner, help

stories. Lily would need feeding, changing,

too quiet when I walked

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