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Alpha’s Deception Chapter 9
The sight of it stirred a memory I hadn’t thought of in years. Not clearly. Just fragments. A trial season long past, when bloodline evaluations loomed over every young wolf. Lucien and I had been seated together in the training hall, parchments spread between us, the air heavy with restless scents and unawakened instincts. I had been explaining his missteps to him—where his control faltered, where his wolf hesitated. I spoke earnestly, almost earnfully, already imagining a future that placed him at its center. I hadn’t noticed at first that he’d stopped listening. His gaze lingered on me instead, unguarded in the way young wolves often were before learning duplicity. “Vivienne,” he had asked suddenly, voice lowered, almost reverent. “When the time comes… what kind of bond-mark would you want?” The question had caught me off guard. Bond-marks weren’t spoken of lightly. Not then. I hesitated for a long moment before answering, quietly, honestly. “Pink,” I said. “I’ve always li
Alpha’s Deception Chapter 8
By the time we finished giving our statements to the Alliance Enforcement Tribunal, night had already settled deep into the city. The Tribunal wasn’t a place for humans or police—it was where pack disputes, territorial violations, and bond-related crimes were formally recorded under the Werewolf Alliance’s authority. Wolves in black insignia armor moved with silent efficiency, their presence heavy with dominance. I brought Adrian Northwind back to my residence afterward. When I woke the next morning, the scent wards were calm and perfectly balanced—no disturbances, no residual hostility. Breakfast was already prepared, arranged with instinctive precision rather than domestic habit. Adrian stood at the stone counter, sleeves rolled back, rinsing a blade and plate with the same focus he would give a war council. I paused in the doorway. “This place accepts you,” I said slowly. “The wards didn’t reject your presence.” In our world, that wasn’t a casual observation. It was acknowle
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The pack headquarters was still within city limits, so I drove straight back to my residence to retrieve the sealed documents. The moment the door slid open, the scent wards reacted. My breath stalled. Someone had breached the perimeter. The house recognized me instantly, but the air was wrong—foreign wolf-scent clinging to the stone floor, sharp with desperation and heat-burn. He was crouched near the entryway, just beyond the threshold where the wards thinned. Lucien lifted his head. His eyes were bloodshot, pupils blown wide, his wolf barely restrained beneath his skin. The exhaustion on him wasn’t human fatigue—it was the aftermath of days spent suppressing instinct, pacing borders he no longer had the right to cross. My jaw tightened. “You shouldn’t be able to smell this place. How did you force your way past the wards?” His gaze flicked over me, lingering too long. His nostrils flared. “You’re lighter,” he said hoarsely. “Your scent’s thinner. Northern air didn’t feed y
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After the mate accord between Adrian Northwind and me was formally sealed, my family arranged for me to spend a term in the southern territories under Bloodmoon jurisdiction— a deliberate trial before I formally assumed leadership of the pack. My mother spoke of the future with open satisfaction. “You’ll anchor the inner pack as Luna,” she said, already seeing it as inevitable. “Gabriella and I will manage the outer dominions.” I boarded the plane with that image still lingering, amused despite myself. At the gate, Adrian stopped me. From his palm, he loosened a single charm from the chain at his wrist and pressed it into my hand. It was a Mooncall talisman—a northern symbol carved from moonstone and wolfbone, worn only by bonded wolves separated by distance. When worn close to the skin, it carried the faint echo of the owner’s presence, a reminder rather than a promise. Adrian had always been restrained with me. But even he couldn’t resist letting the quiet chime of the talis
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Before I could speak, Adrian Northwind’s voice came smoothly from beside me. “Vivienne, why don’t I take you around first and help you settle in?” His expression was open, almost innocent, as though this were nothing more than courtesy. My phone vibrated in my hand. Lucien’s voice burst through the line, sharp and rising. “Vivienne—are you with Adrian Northwind?” “Where are you?” I held the phone slightly away from my ear, surprised by how irritating his voice sounded now. “Where I am isn’t your concern.” He either ignored me or refused to hear it, disbelief thickening his tone. “You did this just to provoke me? You really ran off to Adrian Northwind?” “All the way north—for that woman’s son?” The arrogance in his words snapped whatever restraint I had left. “Stop.” I drew a steady breath and said, clearly and without hesitation, “Lucien, you don’t have the right to question my choices.” “Don’t call me again. Whatever we were ends here.” I ended the call and blocked hi
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Once I was home, I started going through the things Lucien had given me over the years.The first was the moon-sigil collar chain from my eighteenth birthday—silvered bone and alloy, etched with a small resonance rune meant to respond only to my scent. It wasn’t a mating mark, but everyone knew what it implied. I had worn it to the academy once. Not long after, I saw the same design resting against Olivia Miller’s throat. She noticed me looking and smiled, shy and apologetic. “Lucien said,” she explained softly, “that if someone important to him has something, I should have it too.” Under the bed lay the ceremonial boots he’d chosen for my first full-moon rite, untouched. The night-bloom incense from neutral territory—rare, expensive, meant to steady a wolf’s emotions—was already half gone. I remembered Olivia mentioning how well she’d been sleeping lately. Everything I had once believed was chosen—deliberate, singular—had already been duplicated and handed out at Lucien’s con
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