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Aвтор: Western.R
last update publish date: 2026-01-21 05:05:03

Draven's POV

Sleep would not come.

I was lying in my bed, looking up at the ceiling where I saw shadows dancing across the wooden beams, created by clouds crossing over the moon outside. My body was fatigued, but my mind refused to settle.

Her face came back to haunt me, every time I closed my eyes.

Lyra, shattered and feverish, muttering the confessions she would never make when she was awake. Lyra, looking ashen and shaking while her wolf fought her to the end of shredding their bond to a mal
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  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   105

    Draven's POVI knew that I was correct, even before any official channels confirmed it. The certainty was absolute. Kade. My Beta. My second in command. The wolf I had relied on to obey an order even when he personally disagreed with its strategic justification.I reached out gingerly through our pack link. I sensed his answer from a remote place Not here at the site of exchange. Somewhere in the north territories judging by the unique sensation of the connection and just a little bit of lag.“Please tell me you did not raid an old order safe house,” I said through the mental link. With sick certainty of what the answer would already be.“I discovered the place early last week from old communications we intercepted from the order,” Kade replied. Guilt, and the defiance to prove that guilt wrong, rang in his mental voice. "Cross referenced multiple sources. Confirmed it was a large intelligence cache. I thought you needed some leverage to negotiate. They thought that getting their docu

  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   104

    Cassian's POVI watched, as if a bomb with a time-delay fuse had gone off in that assembly, chaos unfolding as Grandmother Thea’s proposal detonated through the group. The stone circle turned into a boiling pot of passionate, fearful rivalries. Wolves howling over one another, growing in desperation. Disputes, breaking out like f besetting each other — fires that could flicker and spread out to incite everything.For some wolves this was liberation from cosmic manipulation they had never consented to. “We ought to pick our own partners!” a young Luna yelled from somewhere in the crowd. Her voice caught with feeling. “Not let the Goddess choose for us, according to bloodlines and purposes we never signed on for! "My mate bond has brought me nothing but pain, forced together by divine spirit instead of out of true desire!"Others were equally passionate and desperate in their defense of divine guidance. Without the blessing we are just animals! an older Alpha argued. His voice reflected

  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   103

    Lyra's POVI approached the chest slowly. Conscious of hundreds of eyes upon my every move. Every expression. Searching for evidence of fear or hesitance or anger.Grandmother Thea made her terms clear and publicly known. Review the evidence honestly. Return the answer in the presence of all witnesses. No hiding. No spinning. Just truth.“If you don’t,” Thea said with perfect clarity, “we will know that you are afraid of what the evidence shows. That you defend lies instead of facing ugly truth. Morgana dies and these witnesses realize the Guardian values her own certainty more than either honesty or loyalty.”The trap was elegant. Deny and show I was scared of the truth. Embrace and possibly obliterate all that the new order was erected upon.I made my choice. "I accept your terms. I will examine the evidence publicly and respond truthfully no matter what I discover. Now release Morgana as agreed."I gestured to the wolves that had her. They cut her bonds. Morgana stumbled forward. K

  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   102

    Draven's POVI organized security for Lyra’s public confrontation with military precision. It was the most dangerous operation we had ever undertaken. Not the fighting, which we could manage, but the visibility. All that went awry would take place before all. No controlling the narrative afterward. There is no spindling this into something not dire.Hundreds of wolves were converging upon the established rendezvous point. Not only backers of the new order. Curious skeptics. Traditionalists who wished to see the Guardian humbled. Reprobates who had been reformed but still questioned divine authority. Wolves from all territory and tribes coming into one spot.It was at once a brilliant and terrifying transparency strategy. Brilliant, because it stripped the old order of power to control information. Because any error would be witnessed and judged in real time.I positioned teams strategically. Visible peacekeepers to keep the crowd calm. Covert extraction teams on standby to pull Lyra o

  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   101

    *Lyra's POVI was staring at the message of the old order. I read it thrice looking for some angle I had missed. Some means of escape from the snare they had so carefully laid.Morgana had given herself up trying to help. Going behind enemy lines knowing to be discovered meant death. It just seemed like abandoning her now would be betraying everything the new order was meant to be about.But entering an obvious trap could upend everything we had worked for. The Guardian captured or killed. Gone, the symbolic heart of reform. The new order, whose leaders were lost at the worst possible moment.When we met to discuss options for a response, the Guardian Council was deeply divided.“Morgana understood the inherent risks when she volunteered,” one council member countered. "She went in with eyes open. We cannot risk the life of the Guardian to save one infiltrator, no matter how priceless her sacrifice.”“We not gonna abandon people who serve us,” another responded. "What message does tha

  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   100

    Cassian's POVWhen I reached Stoneclaw, Alpha Brennan lay dying. The pack house had a quiet, the particular kind of stillness that descends when all know death is imminent. Wolves glided down the hall speaking in whispers. The air was thick with looming loss.Brennan’s room was on the second floor. Simple furnishings. Traditional pack decorations. Nothing ostentatious. He had always been a wolf who cared more about function than display.He was lying in bed, barely conscious. He could barely breathe; his breaths were shallow and wheezy. It sounded as if each breath he took cost him effort he could scarcely spare. The body had been broken beyond its endurance by age and stress and guilt.But when he saw me walk in, clarity came to his eyes for a moment. As if he had been saving that one specifically for this talk. Waiting despite the pain.“Thank you for coming,” Brennan said, quietly. He sounded faint but firm. “I had to say something before I leave. Had to tell you that I am sorry.”

  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   Eight

    Lyra povBy midday, the pack house no longer felt like mine.I noticed it first in the way the omegas paused when they saw me, just a second too long, a hesitation that hadn’t existed before. Their smiles came slower, and strained as if it was forced. Some bowed. Others didn’t know whether to. It w

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  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   Nine

    Lyra povBy midday, the pack house no longer felt like mine.I noticed it first in the way the omegas paused when they saw me, just a second too long, a hesitation that hadn’t existed before. Their smiles came slower, and strained as if it was forced. Some bowed. Others didn’t know whether to. It w

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  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   42

    Lyra's POVI was standing at the center of the Council's grand arena, I could feel thousands of eyes staring me down from all around.The place was huge, a circular stone floor with rows of seats stepping up around it like an amphitheater. Every seat was filled. Representatives of every major pack

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  • Now, The Alpha Wants Me Back   40

    Cassian's POVI stepped forward at once, positioning myself directly in front of Lyra and the troops from the Council obviously with a purpose."She didn't do anything," I announced, my words echoing throughout the quiet compound with Alpha sound. "If there is someone here practicing evil magic, it

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