Arabella’s POV

I used to hear stories about the Calypso Pack when I was young, about their beautiful territories in the far east and the unrivaled power with which they dominate the continent. From the time I was a little girl, strength has always been synonymous with their pack, and even as Gabriel grew the Nova pack to new heights, the Durands’ have never come close to challenging Blaise Denizen’s empire.

Everyone thought I loved Bastien much, but actually I never loved him. How would I love the man that caused my brother’s death? | just always pretended to love him, in order to achieve my revenge. After Bastien married the halfling, I traveled for a long time, always planning on getting to the Calypso territory and its capital, Tartarus, eventually. At the time I thought succeeding on like I could somehow make Bastien pay for Flynn’s death by living my best life.

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What utter nonsense.

A few years of wasted efforts courting other Alphas proved that much, and just when I was getting ready to travel to the Calypso territory to stage a last ditch effort, the news of the rejection spread.

In hindsight, I probably should have ignored the rejection and come to Tartatus anyway. After all, at this point all my best laid plans have fallen to pieces. It seems no matter what I do, something is always going to go wrong.

But I’m no weakling, I’m not just going to throw in the towel and give up.

I chose the wrong ally against Bastien; one who was unwilling to go to any lengths necessary in order to achieve our goal. Somehow I don’t think that’s going to be a problem here.

Blaise Denizen won’t have any problem getting one feeble halfling out of the way, and he certainly won’ t hesitate to challenge Bastien for the Nova territories when the time comes.

The only challenge now is getting on his good side, convincing him to join – or at least champion – my

cause.

It shouldn’t be too hard. With the exception of Bastien, I’ve never met a man I could not fool into doing my bidding. This will be no different.

As far as I’m concerned, Selene’s days are numbered.

Selene’s POV

toe for signs of harm then doing the same to Lila. He sends me a signaling nod, asking if

trying not to

getting spoiled by getting carried everywhere, wriggles out of my arms to toddle across the room, her plump arms outstretched as

her movement so she

are shaking with the effort of restraining himself, his wolf clearly close to the surface

sepa rate bila and Drake. However I have the sneaking suspicion that if I cross over

as calmly as I can,

Alpha agrees, “Let’s

her.” Bastien snarls, staring at

can transfer Lila to my arms. “Selene

know to look for them there, not to mention my lovely mate doesn’t need any more opportunities

however I appear to be the only one. I’d hoped Drake would automatically take my side no matter what, but his concerned expression and solemn words indicate otherwise.

responsible for these,” Bastien grumbles impatiently, taking a small stack of papers from Donovan and dropping them

seems like all I’m ever doing these days is sweeping her out of rooms so she can’t overhear things which might frighten her. I know it’s confusing for her, and it terrifies me how often it’s

don’t understand.” Drake admits once the pup is out of

Bastien answers, sending

does he mean no? I ask

the other papers beside the first. “My men have been scouring the city since dawn. They found dozens of these

talking about?” | demand, stepping forward. “Some of these are real?

bounty made it here before Elysium.” “And you can bet that if someone called

how can they collect the reward if you don’t know who they are?” Drake presses, frustration clear in his

in the beginning so people will feel safe calling in, so they’ll feel empowered to share things they wouldn’t otherwise.” Aiden explains. “There’s a trace on the line, yes, but that only helps if the call is placed from a standard cell phone. Ours wasn’t,

this straight.” Drake begins, circling his desk with determined patience. “You have no idea who reported Selene and Lila, but

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