176 Chapter 176

176 Chapter 176

Damien’s POV 1

“Three fucking years,” I snarled at the Beta standing in front of my desk. “Three years we’ve been hunting these bastards, and now you’re telling me they just… vanished?”

Marcus flinched but held his ground. Good. At least he had some spine.

“Alpha, we’ve searched everywhere. Every safe house, every known associate, every goddamn hole they could crawl into. Voss and

Valerie are gone. It’s like they knew we were closing in.”

My fist slammed onto the desk hard enough to crack the wood. Papers scattered. My coffee mug tipped over, dark liquid spreading

across reports I didn’t give a shit about anymore.

“They didn’t just know. Someone tipped them off.” I stood, my wolf surging so close to the surface that my eyes probably flashed gold.

“Find out who. And when you do, bring them to me. Alive.”

The emphasis on that last word made Marcus pale. He knew what I did to traitors. Everyone in the pack knew.

“Yes, Alpha.” He bowed his head, showing his throat in submission. “We’ll find them. I swear it.”

“You’d better.” My voice was deadly quiet now. Worse than shouting. “Because if Voss and Valerie are still out there, everything we’ve

worked for these past three years means nothing. All those rogue packs we eliminated. All those lives lost. All of it–wasted.”

“They can’t hide forever—”

“GET OUT!” The roar exploded from my chest. My wolf wanted blood. Wanted to tear into something, anything, to release this rage

had been building for three goddamn years.

Marcus practically ran from my office. The door slammed behind him so hard the frame shook.

that

I braced my hands on the desk, breathing hard. The wood grain blurred in front of my eyes. Not from tears–Alphas didn’t cry. From pure,

undiluted fury.

rogue pack, every criminal wolf

fucking close to wiping them all

the two worst ones–the ones who’d orchestrated half the violence, who’d killed innocent wolves, who’d tried

authority–they were gone.

Vanished like smoke.

desk. Another

“Alpha Damien?”

me freeze. Not in fear. In exhausted

turn around to know who it was.

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I didn’t bother hiding the ice in my tone. “Unless you have information about Voss and Valerie’s

come back another time”

my office uninvited,

probably heard you.”

it’ll motivate them to

that patronizing tone that made my wolf want to snap. “You’ve been like this for months now. Angry. Volatile. Impossible to work

to hate over

handled years ago,” I said flatly.

We’ve tolerated rogue violence for too

stepped closer, his eyes searching my face.

it?”

my head. “What’s that supposed

hung in the air like a guillotine blade. “Or should I say… your missing

I felt my canines lengthen, my claws

she?” Henry raised one

concern.” My voice came out as a growl. Dangerous. Barely

explanation.” Henry

questions. Questions you

there’s nothing to

softened in that infuriating way that meant he thought he was being kind. “Stop lying to

yourself into this war against the

“You don’t know anything”

she hasn’t disappeared,” Henry said, gentler now but somehow more cutting, “even if she comes

accept her as Luna.”

flooded my veins. “Excuse

pack bonds.” He listed each failure like a death sentence. “The pack

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