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CHAPTER 193

Author: Lady D
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-30 16:47:50

LUCAS POV

The Alpha meeting was a theater. Drake sat at the head of the table, his voice was steady and his decisions sharp. To anyone else, he was the picture of control. But I had known him since we were pups. I saw the flicker in his eyes whenever he glanced to the window. The slight tension in his jaw whenever their is a pause in the conversation. He was holding himself together with sheer will, but inside he was fighting a battle only him can fight, and it pained me to watch, for there was nothing I could do. He had made his cage and he had shut the door to anyone trying to open it from outside.

When the meeting ended, I walked with him as we left the hall, and tried to pull him into the real world.

“The new rotation for the eastern border let patrol looks solid,” I said as I glanced at the schedule in my hand. “We should have them shift at dawn instead of midday to avoid the—”

Then I realized I was talking to empty air.

I stopped and turned. Drake stood frozen five feet back, lo
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