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chapter 22

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The pack meeting was not scheduled.

Shadow Fang Pack gathered the next morning at the central grounds—a full assembly, warriors and omegas and elders and children—and the reason filtered through the pack structure the way things do in tight-knit groups, quickly and without announcement: the visiting Alpha would be addressed publicly.

Arthur understood immediately what this was.

He stood on the grounds with Petra a
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    The Challenge The decision arrived the next morning the way bad decisions sometimes do—with total clarity, feeling absolutely inevitable, as if it had been quietly forming beneath the surface of every thought Arthur had tried not to think for days. It wasn’t impulsive. That was the frightening part. Arthur found Evander in the training yard before dawn, already running drills alone. The sky was still a muted gray, the world caught between night and morning. Breath misted faintly in the cool air as Evander moved—precise, controlled, relentless. Arthur didn’t interrupt immediately. He stood at the edge of the yard, watching. Every strike Evander threw landed with exact force. Every step was measured. There was no wasted motion, no arrogance, no hesitation. This wasn’t a man who fought to prove something. This was a man who already knew. Arthur understood, with uncomfortable clarity, exactly what

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