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DANE. The memorial was one of the hardest days of my life as Alpha. No amount of training or lessons would’ve prepared me for it. I’ve lost people before, lost pack members. But this one hit even closer to home.On the pyre were twenty-one bodies. Nineteen warriors who laid down their lives for us and two mates who hadn’t survived their deaths.That was yesterday.The weight hadn’t left me. It was still just as heavy as it was when I stood in front of my pack, reading off the names of the fallen. My warriors. Men and women who fought for this pack. I’d known each of them by name. Their faces would never be forgotten and flashed through my mind any time that I closed my eyes.Five had been in critical condition, but we’d been able to save them. They were currently recovering. It was something that I was thankful for because I wasn’t certain how much more loss this pack could take.When we went back to the enemy’s camp to finish what was left, we found forty pups huddling together. Fort
ARIA.Broken bodies and smoke covered the ground. The scent of blood filled the air and coated the ground as well. It wasn’t silent, but even the hushed noise sounded like thunder. Whimpers and cries could be heard from both sides.The thing that hit me hardest, though, was the pain rushing down our bond. It wasn’t just physical. It was the kind that dug into your soul and hollowed a part of it out. Thea and I could feel their grief. The kind that was made of sheer agony and remained with you with, or without, your permission.Dane was the only thing keeping me from falling onto my knees without how weak they felt right now. I nuzzled my face against his chest as I attempted to keep the tears at bay. My own chest ached as if it’d been clawed open because I could feel the pain that they were going through. I’d never experienced sorrow like this before. Our hearts were breaking for our mates.They never wanted this. I knew that. Thea knew it too.Our mates were natural-born protectors. T
DANE. A growl reverberated loudly. It seemingly froze everything. The pause was only for a moment but enough time for seasoned fighters to take the upper hand. The sound wasn’t just rage. No, it was personal.Somehow, Nick had managed to disappear into the fray. Like the snake that he was, he used his own people as camouflage. The fucker had always been good at hiding in plain sight.But not for long.Jericho found him first. Nick’s eyes were filled with murderous intent and trained on Thea. Long gone was the desire to possess her as his own personal weapon, as his toy. There was no trace of the twisted hunger that had once made him covet her. The dead female at her feet must’ve been important to him.Now there was only hatred.I wasn’t certain who she was. I doubted it was his mate because he’d fucked everything with a pulse. Although, I doubted that abusing his mate-bond would really matter much to him. He either mourned her on a personal level or as a weapon.Jericho’s claws tore t
ARIA. Thea’s body moved with fluidity built from relentlessly training and working her ass off. For this exact moment. When we stood against Samuel and his people to protect everything that we held dear, everything that we’d worked for.Everywhere was absolute chaos.This was the first major battle that I’d been in. Suffice to say that I was a bit overwhelmed by its sheer intensity, but Dane had ensured that I was prepared as much as possible. Many other people helped out as well, and never once did they complain about it.All I could hear right now were snarls, bodies crashing against each other, and howls of pain. The stench of blood turned my stomach, but I ignored it for what was improtant. Every enemy that lunged at Thea met the same permanent end.Luckily for us I could utilize the gifts that came with being a silver wolf while she physically fought. In a combat scenario, we could produce a silver light the burned werewolves due to the silver particles in it. Likewise, we could
DANE.I couldn't even recognize the man standing across from me. There was a type of hunger and greed filling his face that I hadn’t remembered seeing when he was younger.Had I ever truly known him? That was a damn good question that chilled me out.All of the games that we’d played once upon a time rushed to mind. I could still hear our laughter over some of the ridiculous bets that were issued. Chalk drawings when he as a young pup. Bedtime stories. The way that he’d explain his experiments and whatever he was researching.If it had all been an act, when had the lie started? It didn’t matter either. Pinning down a moment would change nothing.It wouldn’t change the fire that was being built right now.We'd prepared for this moment. Training continued each day until we had collapsed. We forged ourselves into the strongest army that this pack has ever had before. It was a damn good thing that we did because only the Goddess knew how many rogues there were on his side, far more than we
ARIA.Time had been passing by, with each tick of the clock. Time was stealing another second out of us. The noise was meant to keep us aware that time was now closing on us. We had been waiting and planning for weeks now. It wasn’t easy to let things play out the way that they needed to. Even the sun appeared to be hanging lower today, white and alert, like one which desired to know where this would end, too.Alpha Jonathan and Alpha Tyson had proven themselves more than once to be the allies that we desperately needed. Their names carried weight, enough to make big strides with knocking the foundation out from underneath the rest of the council. But strength came with a price. Any muffled telephone conversation, any secret meetings, was another opportunity to make the suspicion grow. Their mates were attempting to be calm, but I noticed the shaking of Lily in pouring the coffee, the manner in which Alpha Jonathan looked at the door when someone was coming into the room, lingered too







