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Chapter Sixty-Eight: Cassiel Aldric

Author: Author Nengi
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-30 17:22:27

There’s a downside to having the divorced woman you want to date living and working in your pack.

I just didn’t know it until now.

I’ve always been a man of discipline. Wake up before dawn. Run the territory lines. Meet with council members. Oversee financial affairs. Eat meals with one eye on incoming reports and one ear on pack disputes. Repeat. I liked order. Routine. It kept me focused, sharp—untouchable. It kept my pack at the top of the top. As a sign of what other packs could become if their alphas put in the actual work.

Until she came back into my orbit.

Now? I’m checking my phone like an anxious teenager waiting for a reply from his crush. I’ve redone my schedule three times this week just to “conveniently” be in the office at the same day Aurielle needed some forms signed. I've been wrapping up my work faster than usual—like my time doesn’t belong to me anymore but to this invisible countdown where I get to see her next.

I hate how obvious I’m being. My brother clearly see
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