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Chapter 93

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last update publish date: 2026-03-18 03:19:46

The alliance’s military coordination had expanded significantly in the days following the command layer briefing, and the expansion had pulled Killian into a tier of operational planning that I understood was necessary and that I also understood was going to require more of him than either of us had fully anticipated when the post-summit coordination structure was first assembled.

He told me on a Monday evening that he would be attending a three-day planning session at one of the allied pack te
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    I found Killian in the strategy wing, which was where he had been spending most of his afternoons since the command layer briefing had restructured the alliance’s planning priorities.I stood in the doorway of the smaller planning room where he was working alone with a spread of documents that covered most of the table surface.He looked up when I appeared and read my expression with the immediate accuracy that the bond produced between people who had been connected long enough that the face and the bond told the same story simultaneously, and he set down his pen and said, “Sit down.”I sat across from him and the documents between us were not relevant to what I had come to say but I did not move them and he did not move them and the table held both of us with the planning documents as a kind of neutral ground.“I had a meeting with Daemon this afternoon,” I said, and I started there because the sequence mattered and I wanted him to receive it the way I had received it, which was with

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    Alpha Daemon requested a private meeting on Friday morning, and what distinguished it from his standard meeting requests was the distinct notation that the meeting was between the two of us without additional attendees, which he indicated by the formal administrative language that meant no delegation and no council, and no Killian.I arrived at his office at the appointed time and he was standing at the window when I came in which was a configuration I had not encountered in any of our previous meetings and which told me before he had said anything that the meeting’s register was going to be different from the operational sessions we had conducted across the preceding weeks.He indicated the chairs in the corner of the office and I sat and he sat across from me and he looked at me with the particular quality of assessment that I had learned over time was not evaluation, because he had concluded his evaluation long ago, but the specific attention of someone who had been observing somet

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  • Mated To My Beta Stepbrother   Chapter 93

    The alliance’s military coordination had expanded significantly in the days following the command layer briefing, and the expansion had pulled Killian into a tier of operational planning that I understood was necessary and that I also understood was going to require more of him than either of us had fully anticipated when the post-summit coordination structure was first assembled.He told me on a Monday evening that he would be attending a three-day planning session at one of the allied pack territories, and he said it with the quality of someone who was monitoring my response through the bond before I had produced one, which was characteristic of the early weeks of our relationship and which I had thought we had both moved past.“You are checking the bond,” I said.He looked at me and said, “Old habit.”“I am not upset,” I said. “The planning session is necessary and the command layer intelligence we produced last week changed the strategic calculus in ways that require exactly the k

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    “She can be trusted,” Killian said immediately and his voice was firm with conviction, “And she has more strength than you might think based on appearances.”Daemon held up a hand to silence Killian and said, “That’s not for you to decide because the final judgment must come from me as Alpha, and I

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