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CHAPTER 32: An Army

Author: B. Nelson
last update publish date: 2026-04-24 23:11:47

Riverside Pack looked like a war zone.

Roman had seen pack attacks before.

Territory disputes, rogue wolves, the occasional supernatural incursion that got through perimeter defenses before anyone could close the gap. He knew what violence looked like when it moved through a community of people who lived close together.

This was different.

Riverside's compound was smaller than Thornridge, thirty one members, a tight cluster of structures around a central hall that had been built for function r
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  • THE ALPHA'S IMPOSSIBLE MATE    CHAPTER 37: Promise Me

    Roman lit the single lamp on the nightstand and the room went amber and close and Sara stood at the window watching the forest until the last compound light went out across the yard and Thornridge went quiet around them one sound at a time.The wolf on the eastern perimeter had stopped at the treeline for forty seconds before moving on. Roman had felt it through the pack bond and said nothing and she had felt him feel it through the bond and said nothing back and they had made a mutual unspoken agreement that tonight was not for operational thinking. Tomorrow owned all of that. Tonight belonged to something else entirely.He came to her at the window.Stood behind her close enough that she felt his warmth against her back before his hands found her shoulders and when they did she leaned into him without deciding to, the bond pulling her toward him the way it always did when her guard came down far enough to let it. She watched the dark treeline and felt the pendant at her throat and l

  • THE ALPHA'S IMPOSSIBLE MATE    CHAPTER 36: Tell Me After

    The compound ran on controlled urgency the day before the trap.Warriors rotating through final position drills in the eastern forest, moving between marked coordinates until the movements lived in muscle rather than memory. Dmitri had been awake since four pushing through every detail with the methodical focus of a man who understood that overlooked details in operations like this carried specific and irreversible consequences. Roman had matched him hour for hour, checking sightlines, testing communication ranges through the pack bond, walking the net perimeter twice until he could feel every position without looking at the map.By afternoon the preparations had reached the point where doing more would have been doing it for his own anxiety rather than any operational necessity. He stopped. Stood at the war table with the maps spread beneath his hands and felt the particular weight of a man who had done everything available and was now entirely at the mercy of what tomorrow decided t

  • THE ALPHA'S IMPOSSIBLE MATE    CHAPTER 35: What Kind Of Mother

    Roman appeared at the fence before she finished her second mile and Sara kept running anyway.She liked the training yard at five in the morning, the cold air and the silence and the specific satisfaction of her body doing what she asked without committee approval. Three miles of perimeter running, then the wooden posts at the southern end, combinations she had been drilling since her second week at Thornridge when Roman had watched her human fighting technique with the polite expression of someone trying not to say anything and she had made him say it.She was better now.Her wolf made her faster than she had any right to be and the pregnancy had done something unexpected to her center of gravity, lowering it, stabilizing her in ways that made certain movements more efficient rather than less. She hit the post combination and felt it land clean and stepped back and hit it again."You were supposed to rest this morning."He leaned against the fence with his coffee and his coat and the

  • THE ALPHA'S IMPOSSIBLE MATE    CHAPTER 34: Not Always

    He spent six hours arguing against it.Not loudly. Roman had learned early that loud arguments with Sara produced exactly nothing except Sara looking at him with that specific patience that meant she was waiting for him to finish so they could proceed with what she had already decided. So he argued carefully. Methodically. Every tactical vulnerability in the plan laid out in sequence, each one examined honestly, each one receiving an honest response.She had answers for all of them.Not perfect answers. Not answers that eliminated the risk. Answers that acknowledged the risk and demonstrated why the alternative was worse, which was the only kind of answer available when every option carried a cost.By hour four he had stopped arguing against the plan and started arguing about the details, which was the point where he knew she had won and he suspected she knew it too because something in her posture shifted slightly, the specific relaxation of someone whose position has been confirmed.

  • THE ALPHA'S IMPOSSIBLE MATE    CHAPTER 33: Bait With a Plan

    The footage was forty seven seconds long.Trail camera, high resolution, timestamped three nights ago in the wilderness between Riverside and Morrison Creek. Someone had placed it deliberately. Not pack, the angle was wrong for a standard perimeter camera. FBI, she suspected, Reid's people running surveillance they hadn't mentioned in yesterday's meeting because Reid never gave everything in a first conversation.She watched it four times in Riverside's makeshift command center while Roman and Dmitri stood behind her and Carla sat across the table with her hands flat on the surface and her eyes on the screen.Marcus was recognizable in it. Barely. He moved differently now than he had at the compound two nights ago, more fluid, less of the angular wrongness she had seen in the trail camera footage Roman had shown her in his office that first week. He was integrating. The Wendigo and the man finding a more efficient architecture together.That was not good news.What was worse was what

  • THE ALPHA'S IMPOSSIBLE MATE    CHAPTER 32: An Army

    Riverside Pack looked like a war zone.Roman had seen pack attacks before. Territory disputes, rogue wolves, the occasional supernatural incursion that got through perimeter defenses before anyone could close the gap. He knew what violence looked like when it moved through a community of people who lived close together.This was different.Riverside's compound was smaller than Thornridge, thirty one members, a tight cluster of structures around a central hall that had been built for function rather than permanence. The central hall was still standing. Most of the outer structures weren't. Whatever Marcus had brought with him last night hadn't just attacked. It had dismantled.Roman stood at the edge of the compound with Dmitri and watched Sara move through the scene.She worked the way she always worked, methodical and contained, crouching over evidence and straightening and moving to the next point without the hesitation that most people brought to spaces that looked like this. She

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