Chapter 0691

"They're positioning all of our year of Academy Cadets here," Rafe says, tapping the map again with his finger. We all lean forward, studying it - even Jackson, who I know was in on the meeting with Rafe and saw this all before. "With our little group in the center of it."

"Wolf pack," I murmur, nodding.

"What?" Tony asks, looking over his shoulder at me.

I blush slightly. "Something Neumann called it," I respond, refocusing on Rafe as he continues explaining, either not having heard me or ignoring me.

"I don't hate it," Tony replies, giving a shrug and turning back to the map.

"The whole point of calling us up is sheer numbers," Rafe explains, drawing his finger now across the entire line of Moon Valley troops. "Roger wants a big assault on this cliff-side entrenchment, says we've got to get the Atalaxians out of there and on flat ground, either in front or below it."

"He's not wrong," Jackson adds, giving a steady nod.

Rafe nods too, continuing on. "So it's a big assault. The problem is, every time they've considered or tried it before the Atalaxians see it coming and route the forces from behind. So we've basically got to surround them in a semicircle so they have no way to get around us. Then we tighten in, like a fist."

uses his own hand

that the Atalaxians don't notice all the fresh faces and terror in our

around at all of us, his eyes pausing on Daphne as she keeps her eyes on the ironing, her

back against the cushions.

as the dumbwaiter bell rings, signaling the arrival of

I say it...something in me makes my wolf turn with anxiety.

late and the boys start

the night, Jesse keeps an eye on his girl. How

gorgeous, and

concerned, and his.

air," Jesse says with a sigh, pushing up from his arm chair and deliberately not looking

Jess?" Rafe says,

"Lonce heard you say you wish you had a personal air conditioner and

the night before he goes to war a man wants to... smell a tree. I don't know. Don't think about it too hard." He slips outside the door but

- Daphne is out the

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