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Chapter 10

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CHAPTER 10:

PACK POLITICS

The grand hall of the Northern Peaks Fortress was charged with tension, which almost burst. Marcus took up the head of the old oak table, his hands pressed into its weathered surface as he looked over the heads of his pack leaders. Each seat at the table held an alpha who had taken the Thornfield name, beta wolves that had served our family for generations, and warriors who had proved their loyalties in blood and battle.

The air was thick with rage like that of smoke from a funeral pyre.

Three villages grew the words of Athena Ironback as he took up most of the large chair and made it groan under his weight. Forty-seven dead that including children. And you want us to sit here like we have no will of our own?

I want us to think before acting. Marcu replied his voice with authority on the issue at hand. Rage makes us blind. Blindness gets us all killed.

Athena slammed his hand on the table, which caused the pewter tankards to jump. “We are the ones allowing th
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