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The Alpha Forgets 98
98 Adam did not let the prisoner rest long. The wolf was dragged into Edgewater’s holding room still bleeding from the fight, his broken leg splinted only enough to keep him from passing out. Matthew stood behind him, arms crossed, eyes flat and furious. Adam sat across from him. Bandaged shoulder. Fresh stitches. Blood still staining the edge of his shirt. Alive. Angry. The prisoner tried not to look at him. That was smart. Adam leaned forward. “You came for me.” The prisoner said nothing. Matthew stepped closer. “Wrong time to be brave.” The wolf swallowed, eyes flicking toward the door. Adam noticed. “You’re not leaving this room until I know who sent you.” Still silence. Matthew grabbed the back of the chair and jerked it hard enough to make the prisoner gasp as pain shot through his injured leg. Adam’s voice stayed calm. “You weren’t sent to win. You were sent to wound me. Just enough to pull my sister home.” The prisoner’s face changed. Barely. But enough. Matthew saw
The Alpha Forgets 97
97 Edgewater Falls did not look fortified. That was the point. From the outside, the pack moved as usual. Patrols crossed familiar routes. Border posts stayed manned but not doubled in any obvious way. The packhouse lights burned at their normal hours. The hospital ran its shifts. Warriors trained in the open yard like they had not been warned that something was coming. But beneath the surface, Adam had tightened everything. Quietly. Efficiently. Matthew’s scouts were positioned farther out than usual, hidden beyond the known patrol routes. Warriors slept in shifts with boots beside their beds. The western and eastern ridges had been marked with silent signals only Edgewater wolves would notice. The hospital had two extra trauma teams on standby, officially for “training readiness.” Adam had listened to Decker’s warning. He just hadn’t made a show of it. That was why, when the first breach came just after midnight, Edgewater Falls did not panic. It answered. The alarm hit through
The Alpha Forgets 96
96 The rumors didn’t just spread. They moved. Fast. Clean. Deliberate. By the next morning, Dark Mountain wasn’t the only pack talking about Lotty. Silver Claw had already carried the story outward quietly, through the same channels they used for trade, for alliances, for whispers that shaped decisions before anyone realized they had been made. Morgan’s territory heard it. The smaller eastern packs heard it. And somewhere in the space between all of them, Ellis listened. The story was simple. Too simple. The Luna was strong but not stable. The pack link strained her. She avoided crowds. She faltered under pressure. Her strength showed in controlled environments but broke when pushed unexpectedly. Not weak. But cracked. And cracks could be widened. The conclusion didn’t take long. It never did with wolves who thought like strategists instead of warriors. Don’t remove her. Move her. Attack Edgewater Falls. Not to destroy it. Not even to win. Just enough to pull her back. She would
The Alpha Forgets 95
95 They didn’t rush it. That was what made it dangerous. Not the sudden strike. Not the overwhelming force. The patience. They watched her. For days. From the edges of the pack’s routines, from the quiet places where servants moved and warriors didn’t look twice, from borrowed eyes and borrowed wolves who didn’t belong long enough to be remembered. They watched the shifts. The missed meals. The absence from training. The guarded movement. The subtle faltering. And they watched the contradiction. The hospital. Strong there. Untouchable there. That didn’t make sense. So they waited. Because wolves like Decker didn’t leave openings. Unless the opening was real. The moment came in the late afternoon. Not dramatic. Not obvious. Just a gap. Lotty stepped out of the hospital just as the sun dipped low enough to stretch shadows across the courtyard. Her shift had run longer than expected. It always did. A minor injury had turned into a complication. A complication into a procedure. A p
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94 They didn’t move right away. Three days. That was Decker’s call. Not out of hesitation, out of discipline. If they reacted too quickly, it would confirm everything the enemy already suspected: that Theron had been compromised, that the message had been intercepted, that Dark Mountain wasn’t being tested anymore it was watching. So they waited. And in that waiting, they made everything look normal. Day one passed quietly. Lotty went to breakfast as usual, sat at Decker’s side, spoke with Tony about hospital supplies, and even laughed once at something Elin said about a training mishap involving a pup and a very confused warrior. Nothing out of place. Nothing forced. If anyone was watching, they would see the same Luna they had begun to accept. Steady. Present. Unshaken. Day two followed the same pattern. Training grounds filled with warriors. The dining hall carried its usual low hum. Lotty moved through the packhouse without hesitation, her guards always near but never crowdin
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93 The quiet didn’t feel like peace. It felt like a breath being held. Two days passed without an attack. No rogues on the border. No strange movement near the packhouse. No sudden surges of panic through the pack link. On the surface, Dark Mountain settled. Patrols rotated cleanly. Training resumed. The dining hall filled again with voices that didn’t drop into silence when Lotty entered. But underneath everyone was waiting. Because the trap had been set. And somewhere out there, someone had read Theron’s message and decided what to do next. Lotty refused to sit still. By the second morning, she was already dressed for the hospital, pulling her hair back into something practical while Kara leaned against the wall and Elin checked the hallway outside. “You don’t have to go today,” Kara said. Lotty didn’t look up. “I know.” “Decker didn’t say anything about it.” “He didn’t need to.” Elin stepped back into the room. “All clear.” Lotty grabbed her bag. “That’s not the same as
The Alpha Forgets 54
54 The air shifted before they even arrived. Lotty felt it standing at Decker’s side on the wide stone steps of the packhouse, the late afternoon light stretching long shadows across the courtyard. The guards were tighter than usual. Patrols doubled along the perimeter. Even the wolves moving thro
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39 The candles had burned down to stubs. Dinner sat half-cleared on the small table, forgotten. The room still carried the faint warmth of what had almost happened, something soft, something intimate, but now it was overshadowed by the sharp edge of reality. Blood had replaced romance. War had in
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37 The evening had been planned carefully. Too carefully. Decker had spent most of the afternoon arranging it, quietly coordinating with the kitchen and slipping back upstairs before Lotty could suspect anything. The guards had noticed, of course, nothing happened in the packhouse without someone
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36 The meeting room in the packhouse had once been a formal dining hall. Now it has become something else entirely. The long wooden table at the center held maps instead of plates, territory markers instead of candles. Old scars carved into the wood hinted at past arguments, past decisions that ha
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