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Chapter Nine

Author: Tina Ice
last update publish date: 2026-08-21 00:51:40

Sienna did not sleep after the footsteps faded.

She sat on the edge of the bed with her back straight and listened to the house. The bond told her Lucas had returned to the main wing and stayed there, issuing quiet orders. Patrols moved past her window twice in the following hour. Neither slowed.

Just before dawn the lock turned.

Harris stood in the doorway with two other wolves behind him. His expression was carefully blank.

“Alpha wants you in the study. Now.”

Sienna followed. The hallways we
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    Sienna forced the casing open on the floor charge.The internal layout matched the first two devices closely enough that the technician’s earlier work gave her the sequence. She did not have his hands or his practice. She had the knife, the bond’s cold focus bleeding through from Lucas, and the knowledge that a mistake ended the bay and everyone still inside it.Above her the technician spoke once, tight and precise. “Higher device is clear.”Harris was already moving toward her when the status light on the floor charge stuttered. Sienna cut the final lead. The light died. The soft internal tone stopped mid-cycle.For a single second the loading bay was silent except for breathing.Then the outer roller door lifted another half meter and the night poured in—wolves and human handlers in a tight, fast stack, the same mixed construction as the storage-ruins team. They had waited for the charges to fail or finish. When neither happened cleanly, they came to finish the work themselves.Luc

  • The Alpha's Rejected Mate   Chapter 63

    They cleared the upper approach with Merrick and Rylan under tight control.Harris met them at the junction, breathing hard, a dismantled charge pack already in the hands of one of his scouts. “Medical wing is clean. The device was under the main support beam—professional work, short timer, disrupted with less than a minute left. Stores are still dark on confirmation. Two teams inside. No find yet.”Lucas did not slow. “Take Merrick. Full restraint, separate holding, continuous watch. Rylan stays with us until the stores are clear. If this sequence has a third marker, I want the tools where I can see them.”Harris transferred Merrick without argument. The former senior went quietly, calculating eyes tracking every exit. Rylan offered no resistance either, only a thin smile that said he was still measuring outcomes.Sienna kept her grip on Rylan’s arm as the reduced group turned toward the stores corridor. The bond carried Lucas’s pain in hard, regular pulses—the thigh and ribs collect

  • The Alpha's Rejected Mate   Chapter 62

    They did not walk away.Lucas signaled the two scouts to hold the outer door and cut any retreat toward the main hall. Harris was already sealing the upper approach. The medical wing and the stores had live charges on a sequence that would not wait for a long negotiation. The deep cells were the only place left to break the design from the inside.Sienna stayed on his left as they entered the dark corridor.The chemical cover was thicker here, layered over the older smells of stone and restraint. Emergency lighting along the floor gave just enough shape to the walls and the cell doors. The double-watch posts were empty. No bodies. No blood. The guards had been removed cleanly, the same way the outer pairs had disappeared during the first silence on the shared channels.A soft click sounded ahead metal on metal, deliberate.Lucas stopped. The bond carried his assessment of distances, angles, the places a small team would place themselves if they already controlled the block.“You came,

  • The Alpha's Rejected Mate   Chapter 61

    The first shots cut the dark under the ruined overhang.Sienna stayed on Lucas’s left as the forward team opened fire and the two shifting wolves came in low. The unit answered from the tree line. Harris took the right flank with the remaining pair. The space was too tight for clean lines—broken walls, scorched timber, the open loading platform where the crates sat half-unpacked.Lucas moved through the chaos with the same controlled economy he had used at the private-wing doors. The injuries slowed him. They did not stop him. Sienna covered the damaged side, knife work short and final, the bond guiding her when the muzzle flashes erased the shapes around them.One of the handlers tried to reach the radio again. Harris put him down before the second transmission could clear. The remaining human dropped his weapon and tried for the tree line. A scout intercepted him. The two shifted wolves died hard against the base of the platform, taking a loyal pair’s legs out from under them before

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    They did not wait for another body on the marker stone.Before midnight Lucas ordered the eastern approaches stripped and rebuilt under a single defensive logic. Every secondary path that could carry a mixed force was collapsed or manned. The commercial spur was closed under heavy watch. The old ridge path, the lower cut, and the drainage channel received overlapping pairs who reported on a tighter interval than the pack had used in years. Harris took the outer commercial ground with orders to dismantle every remaining dead-drop site and clearing-house contact still visible on the maps. Elena held the main grounds and the deep cells.Sienna stayed on Lucas’s left as they moved through the first full rotation of the new line. He walked with a controlled limp that did not slow the pace he set. The bond carried the continuous cost of the injuries and the colder focus that had replaced the earlier exhaustion. The claim sat between them without the old political noise simply the fact of it

  • The Alpha's Rejected Mate   Chapter 59

    Two days passed before Lucas could stand without the wall.The medical wing kept him under observation while the rest of the pack worked the thin margin the failed invasion had left them. Sienna split her hours between the chair beside his bed and the main hall, where the temporary authority of the claim still held the lower ranks in a fragile line. Harris sent reports from the outer commercial routes. Elena ran the internal review of senior codes with the kind of cold precision the week had taught everyone to respect.On the morning of the third day, Lucas walked the length of the private corridor under his own power and did not fall.Sienna watched from the doorway as he tested the limits of the repaired thigh and the still-binding ribs. The bond carried every careful step and the underlying refusal to remain horizontal any longer than necessary.“You are not ready for the eastern boundary,” she said.“I am ready to stop receiving the war through other people’s reports.” He stopped

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