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.

dismantling every rogue pack, every criminal wolf operation, every threat to pack territory.

fucking close to wiping them all

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

authority–they were gone.

Vanished like smoke.

buzzed on the desk. Another report.

“Alpha Damien?”

me freeze. Not in

turn around to know who it was. The scent of old wolf and expensive

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bother hiding the ice in my tone. “Unless you have information about

come back another time”

my office uninvited,

probably heard you.”

it’ll motivate them to actually do their fucking

that made my wolf want to snap. “You’ve been like this for months now.

I’d grown to hate over the

been handled years ago,” I said flatly. “If that makes me angry, then everyone else should

tolerated rogue

Henry stepped closer, his eyes searching my face. “But that’s not really

it?”

in my head.

a guillotine blade. “Or should I say…

I felt my canines lengthen,

Henry

My voice came out as a growl. Dangerous.

when the pack Luna disappears without explanation.” Henry didn’t back down. Stupid

questions. Questions

to

voice softened in that infuriating way that meant he thought he was being kind. “Stop lying to yourself. I’ve

three years. I’ve seen you throw yourself into this war against the

“You don’t know anything”

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

accept her as Luna.”

flooded my veins.

No wolf, No shifting ability. No pack bonds.” He listed each failure like a death sentence. “The pack has

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