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CHAPTER 13: UNANIMOUS

Author: Frank Cannon
last update publish date: 2026-01-03 07:42:58

They voted without hesitation.

"Aye," Elder Frost had said.

"Aye," Elder Chen had agreed.

"Aye," Adrian had confirmed, his voice steady and cold.

"Aye," my father had finished, sealing my fate with a single word.

Not one voice dissented except Hawthorne's, and his objection meant nothing against the unified front of the others.

Four votes for execution. One against. The decision was final.

I stayed pressed against the wall in the corridor, my chains cold against my wrists, listening as they dis
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  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 196: DIRECT CONTACT

    I called Chen before Ros sent the response.He answered with the quality he always brought to calls he had been expecting."The northeast cluster's message," I said."Yes," he said. "I forwarded it as information. I should have asked first whether you wanted the council's channel used for this.""That is the question I am calling about," I said. "The formal administrative record." I paused. "The addendum to the resolution. It has not been formally adopted.""No," he said. "I have been drafting it over the past two months alongside the thread communication's development. The draft is complete. I have been waiting for the right moment to submit it." He paused. "The northeast cluster's message creates a situation where the moment is now rather than when I had planned.""The message is already in the council's system," I said."Yes," he said. "The record exists." He paused. "The addendum's formal adoption after the record exists is not ideal." He paused. "But it is recoverable." He paused

  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 195: AFTER THE VALLEY

    Greaves committed to the community acknowledgment before we left.Not at my request. He arrived at it himself while we were still at the valley floor watching the two Alphas begin a conversation that neither had been able to have for four years.He said: They need to tell their communities. Not me. Both Alphas together. At the foundation. The communities see their Alphas at the valley floor location they have both avoided for generations and they understand something significant has changed."Yes," I said. "That is the right form.""Two weeks," he said. "Enough time for the Alphas to process what happened today and to make the governance arrangements for both communities to travel together." He paused. "The gathering at the foundation. The Alphas explaining what the thread was and what the completion means." He paused. "Marcus's documentation giving them the historical context." He paused. "I will be present." He paused. "The function need not be.""The function's presence at the gath

  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 194: THE VALLEY

    The valley was in Greaves's outer territory.He confirmed this the same evening I asked. Not through Ros's formal channel. Directly. He had been watching for the function's contact after the southwestern visit and responded within the hour.He said: The valley packs. Two of them. Calthren and Moss Ridge. I have been trying to govern the conflict between them for four years. The same pattern as the farming family. Every resolution holds for six weeks and then collapses. Tell me when you are coming.I sent back: Next week. What do you know about the origin of the conflict.His response: Old. Older than my governance. The community elders say the two packs were one community before their parents' parents' time. Something divided them. No one remembers what. The division became the valley's defining characteristic. Two packs that know they share everything and cannot stop fighting about all of it.The function's translation had already shown me the thread at range.The community that had

  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 193: THE CYCLE

    We drove back in the afternoon.Ros organized the documentation during the drive. The southwestern territory assessment. The nine thread situations. Greaves's specific governance questions and the function's responses. The quarterly circuit schedule beginning today as the first visit.I opened the channel's maintenance state while she worked.The bond to Dante warming as the distance closed. The ninety kilometer range shifting toward the eighty and then toward the close range warmth as the estate approached.He was at the gate.The specific quality of someone who had been at the anchor's end of a ninety kilometer circuit visit and was receiving the return."The accompaniment held," I said when I got out."Yes," he said. "Ninety kilometers was the developed zone exactly as described." He paused. "The kite string quality at a slightly longer cord." He paused. "Not effortful." He paused. "Just longer.""Good," I said."Tell me about the family thread," he said.I told him.All of it. The

  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 192: THE SOUTHWESTERN VISIT

    Lena told me before breakfast.She came to find me while I was still in the early morning quiet of the first ground's garden. The reaching expression already running in its ambient state. The southwestern territory's thread quality present in her background awareness as it had been since the previous evening.She sat on the bench beside me."The family thread," she said."Tell me," I said."When I was holding the reaching expression during the northeast contact," she said. "The simultaneous monitoring of the southwestern territory." She paused. "The reaching expression read the territory's general volatile quality but also something more specific." She paused. "One family. Three generations carrying the thread at a higher concentration than the surrounding community." She paused. "The volatile accumulation is distributed through the territory but it originates in this family's bloodline." She paused. "The way Marcus's volatile accumulation was the continuity expression looking for its

  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 191: THE NORTHEAST CONTACT

    The assessment took the afternoon.Lena and Jace working together at the kitchen table with the reaching expression and the territorial read in combination.Lena read the thread quality and development direction in the two outer council territories. Jace read the specific spatial characteristics. Where the thread concentrations were highest. Which pack communities were closest to the primary thread sites in those territories.The picture that assembled was specific.The first territory, northeast of Chen's eastern valley, had been developing toward a community gathering effect similar to what Roark's clearing had produced. The thread quality showed a bloodline community beginning to feel the pull toward a specific location. Not the full intensity of the Roark situation. Earlier stage. The function's active reconnection applied in the next month would be appropriate. An additional circuit visit to that territory scheduled for the second month of the next cycle.Not immediate crisis. Sc

  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 34: THE SAFE HOUSE

    The safe house was not what I expected.I had imagined something rundown. Hidden. The kind of place desperate wolves used when they had nowhere else to go.Instead, it was a modern apartment in a building that screamed expensive anonymity. The kind of place where no one asked questions because ever

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  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 32: THE FIRST LESSON

    "We are not staying to fight twenty elite hunters," Dante said flatly. "That is suicide.""For normal wolves, yes." My grandmother moved through the cabin with surprising speed for her age, gathering items I couldn't identify. "But you are not normal wolves. She is Silvermoon. You are Mafia Alpha.

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  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 29: THE PRICE OF RAGE

    The training intensified after the manifestation.Dante pushed me harder than before. Longer sessions. More complex exercises. Testing the limits of my new strength and the fragility of my control."Again," he commanded as I struggled to lift a weight that should have been impossible for my frame.

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  • Rejected Luna of the Mafia Alpha   CHAPTER 30: THE COUNCIL GATHERS

    The neutral territory was an old estate on the border between pack lands.I had never seen it before. Omegas were not invited to council meetings. We were barely acknowledged as wolves worthy of political consideration.But today, I was the entire reason the council had been called.Dante's car pul

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