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.

we’re hunting

in his chair. “Question is, what do we

the phone down, my jaw clenching. Three years. Three fucking years of hunting these bastards,

looking,” I said. “What other choice

hesitated. “I might have an idea.

me look up sharply. “What kind of

no.” He held up both hands. “You remember what I said about recruiting from the

circuits?”

“Lucas-”

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from somewhere, right? They’re getting fresh blood, new fighters. Strong ones.

if we did the same thing? What

to recruit from human

underground stuff. Where wolves ge when they don’t want pack affiliations.” His eyes gleamed

like excitement. “Think about it. These fighters are trained. Brutal. They know how to

perfect

be unstable. Dangerous. Impossible

least this way, we’d have the dangerous ones on our

forming behind my eyes. “Even if

even find these fighters?”

doing research.” He pulled out his phone again. “There’s a circuit in the city. Runs out of an

Serious talent.”

“Human talent.”

the beauty of it. These places don’t care what

you can fight.”

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

asked. “Why push

uncomfortable flickered across

aren’t you telling me?” I

sighed, running a hand through his hair. “Look, the pack’s training program

stopped. Didn’t

didn’t need

*Since Sera left.*

unspoken words hung in the air like