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

the phone down, my jaw clenching. Three years. Three fucking years of hunting these bastards, and now they were toying with

said. “What other choice

hesitated. “I might have an idea.

tone made me look

He held up both hands. “You remember what I said about recruiting from

circuits?”

“Lucas-”

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listen. These rogues are recruiting from somewhere, right? They’re getting

his expression intense. “What if we did the same

stared at him. “You want to recruit

fight clubs. The real underground stuff. Where wolves ge when they don’t want pack affiliations.”

it. These fighters are trained. Brutal. They know how to survive

be perfect for

unstable.

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

behind my eyes. “Even if I agreed with this insane plan–which I

even find these fighters?”

again. “There’s a circuit in the city.

Serious talent.”

“Human talent.”

Some aren’t.” Lucas’s grin was sharp. “That’s the beauty of it. These places don’t care what you are as long

you can fight.”

my Beta’s face.

now?” I asked. “Why push this

shifted. Something uncomfortable flickered across his

telling me?”

his hair. “Look, the pack’s training program has been

Didn’t finish

didn’t

*Since Sera left.*

hung in the air