Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

The knock on my office door came at exactly the wrong time.

I was elbow–deep in budget reports that should have been reviewed a week ago. My eyes burned from staring at spreadsheets. My third

cup of coffee had gone cold an hour ago.

“What?” The word came out sharper than I intended.

Lucas stuck his head in, undeterred by my tone. “Got news. About our friends.”

I sat up straighter. “Voss and Valerie?”

“Yeah.” He stepped inside, closing the door behind him. His expression was grim. “And it’s… complicated.”

“Complicated how?”

Lucas dropped into the chair across from my desk with a heavy sigh. “Our scouts tracked activity in three different locations over the

past seventy–two hours. All of them matched the pattern we’ve been following.”

“Three locations?” I frowned. “That doesn’t make sense. They can’t be in three places at once.”

“Exactly.” Lucas pulled out his phone, swiping through what looked like surveillance reports. “Which means either they’re moving faster

than we thought possible, or…”

“Or someone’s feeding us false information.”

“Bingo.” He tossed his phone onto my desk. “Half of these sightings contradict each other. Time stamps don’t line up. Descriptions vary.

It’s like chasing ghosts.”

I picked up his phone, scrolling through the reports. He was right. The details were all wrong. Too vague in some places, too specific in

others.

hunting

playing games.” Lucas leaned back in his chair. “Question is, what do we do

Three years. Three fucking years of hunting

keep looking,” I said. “What other

Lucas hesitated. “I might have an idea.

his tone made me look up sharply.

hands. “You remember what I said about recruiting

circuits?”

“Lucas-”

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rogues are recruiting from somewhere, right? They’re getting fresh blood,

did the same thing? What

want to recruit from

wolves ge when they don’t want pack

These fighters are trained. Brutal. They

perfect

be unstable.

fighting.” Lucas shrugged. “At least this way, we’d have the dangerous ones on our

“Even

even find these fighters?”

out his phone again. “There’s a circuit in the city. Runs out of an old

Serious talent.”

“Human talent.”

the beauty of it. These

you can fight.”

in my chair, studying my Beta’s face. He

“Why push

expression shifted. Something uncomfortable

you telling

a hand through his hair. “Look,

stopped. Didn’t finish the

didn’t

*Since Sera left.*

in the air like