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Chapter 7: The Pack’s Law

Author: AJ Reed
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-24 01:43:42
Lena’s indoctrination began with a ceremony held within the ancient stone circle on Rathbone grounds. Pale moonlight filtered through the twisted branches above as the Elders spoke in low, reverent tones of the covenant — a pact older than memory, binding the pack in secrecy and survival. Bloodlines mattered, they said. Strength mattered more. They were wolves disguised behind the fragile masks of human skin.

A harsh truth settled over Lena like a lead weight: no human could be mated to a pack member. The rule was written not only to preserve purity and prevent weakness but to shield the pack from the contamination of the outside world.

Yet despite the doctrine, Jeremy’s gaze lingered on her longer than protocol allowed, his restraint palpable like a taut wire ready to snap.

She overheard whispered murmurs in the shadows - some feared her presence, others resented it. Whispers of doubt rippled through the pack, shadows among the unyielding stone of tradition.

But beneath the rigid cod
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