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Silence is a luxury we no longer have, Alpha."

Edward Harrington’s voice scraped against the high vaulted ceilings of the Council Chamber. He sat in the center of the mahogany dais, his skin the color of old parchment. He was a skeleton draped in a tailored suit, one hand trembling as it rested on the pack’s ancient charter.

"I'm not here for a history lesson, Edward," Richard barked. He stood in the center of the room. His fists were curled. His jacket was missing. The silver-rot scars on his
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  • The Alpha’s Second Life   44

    "Where did this come from?"I pointed at the heavy, leather-bound book sitting on the center of my mahogany desk. The air in the study felt thick, smelling of old vellum and a sharp, metallic musk that didn't belong to any of my patients."A courier delivered it an hour ago." Richard stood by the window, his arms crossed over his chest. His shoulders were a solid wall of tension. "The seal on the wax belongs to the Steele Pack. Marcus sent it.""Marcus Steele?" I stepped closer to the desk. I didn't touch the book. Not yet. "Why would the Alpha of the Northern Ridge send me a sixteenth-century medical manuscript on lunar cycles?""It’s not a gift, Joshua. It’s a claim." Richard walked toward me. He didn't just walk; he prowled. He stopped so close I could feel the heat radiating off his skin. He reached out and snagged the corner of the book, spinning it toward him. "He’s pissing on your desk without being in the room. His scent is all over the binding. He wants me to know he’s thinki

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   43

    "How do I make the air tell me its secrets?"Henry stood in the middle of the overgrown grass, his small chest puffed out. He was trying to look like a soldier. He looked like a five-year-old in a dinosaur t-shirt."You don't make it do anything, Henry." Richard knelt in the dirt. He didn't care about the mud staining his tactical pants. He didn't care about the tactical headset still humming in his ear. "You just listen. The wind is a gossip. It's always talking about where it’s been.""I only hear the birds." Henry screwed his eyes shut. His face scrunched up. "And the lawnmower next door. It's loud.""Forget the lawnmower. Close your eyes. Don't try to hear. Try to catch." Richard reached out. He didn't touch the boy. His hand hovered an inch from Henry’s shoulder. "What's the smell coming from the woods? Not the trees. Behind them."I watched from the kitchen window. My hand gripped the wooden sill so hard a splinter dug into my palm. I didn't move. I couldn't.Richard was differe

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   42

    "Open the gates, or I’ll drive this through the wall."Richard didn't wait for an answer. He floored it. The black SUV lurched forward, tires screaming against the gravel of the High Council’s mountain retreat. The heavy iron gates swung open just as our bumper brushed the metal."They're waiting for us." Richard’s knuckles were white on the steering wheel. He looked at me. "Joshua, you don't have to do this. I can take Henry. I can tell them—""You’ll tell them exactly what I told you to tell them." I tightened the knot of my tie. It felt like a noose. I didn't care. "I’m not walking in there as your plus-one. I’m not the 'runaway mate' coming home for a scolding.""The Blood Audit is for the Harrington line. You're a Scott.""And I'm the one who birthed the frequency they're terrified of." I grabbed my medical case from the floorboard. "If they want to audit his blood, they deal with the doctor who knows how to keep it inside his body."We stepped out of the car. The air was thin up

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   41

    "You’re late."I checked my watch. 5:02 AM. I didn't look at the man standing on the guest house porch. I didn't have to. The scent of rain and expensive tobacco already filled the driveway."I’m exactly on time," I said.I adjusted the strap of my medical bag. My shoulder ached. Sleep was a luxury I hadn't tasted in three days. Not with a Harrington breathing my air. Not with an Alpha playing soldier in my yard."The perimeter is clear." Richard stepped into the light of the single porch bulb. He wasn't wearing a five-thousand-dollar suit anymore. He wore black tactical pants and a tight compression shirt that showed every corded muscle. He looked like a weapon. "I did a sweep at 0400. Three drones were hovering near the treeline. I jammed them.""Good for you." I kept walking toward my beat-up sedan."Joshua. Wait."He held out a thermos. Steam curled into the freezing morning air. "It’s black. Two sugars. The way you used to—"I didn't stop. I didn't even slow down."Morning, Joshu

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   40

    "Sign here."I shoved the three-page document across the scarred kitchen table. The edge of the paper caught on a splinter in the wood. Richard didn't reach for it. He stared at the pen I’d laid on top—a cheap plastic ballpoint that looked like a toy in the shadow of his massive, bruised hand."You're serious?" Richard looked up. His eyes weren't amber anymore. They were dark, circled by the exhaustion of the last forty-eight hours. "You want me to abdicate the lineage?""I want my son to sleep without an Enforcer outside his window, Richard." I leaned back, my chair creaking. I crossed my arms. Hard. I didn't want him to see my fingers shaking. "The Council is only hunting him because he’s a 'Harrington Heir.' If he’s just Henry Scott, a medical anomaly with no claim to your throne, the political target on his back shrinks.""The Council doesn't care about names, Joshua. They care about that howl. They care about what he can do.""They care about the right to what he can do." I tappe

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   39

    "Get the children to the back! Now!"The clinic door shattered. Not just the glass. The whole frame groaned and buckled. I shoved a mother and her toddler toward the sterile hallway. My hands shook. My stethoscope tangled in my fingers. I ripped it off and threw it."Joshua! There are more out front!"My nurse, Elena, pointed toward the street. Three blacked-out SUVs had jumped the curb. Men in tactical gear poured out. No badges. No uniforms. Just the heavy, cloying scent of rogue pheromones and wet dog."Barricade the intake!" I grabbed a metal filing cabinet. I shoved. It didn't move. My boots slipped on the linoleum. "Elena, call the—"The air suddenly tasted like pennies. A high-pitched whine started in the back of my skull. Then the flash.Whump.The front windows didn't just break; they vaporized. A cloud of fine, metallic powder filled the lobby. It hung in the air like a fog. Silver-Dust."Richard?" I coughed. My lungs burned. Every breath felt like swallowing needles.I look

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