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"Sign the papers, Richard. Now."

Edward Harrington didn't look up from the heavy mahogany desk. He just pushed a stack of thick, cream-colored parchment across the polished surface. The ink on the bottom line was still wet. It looked like a fresh wound.

"The Alpha Academy?" I stepped forward, my boots clicking against the marble floor of the Council chamber. I didn't wait for Richard to speak. "He’s five years old, Edward. You’re talking about a military barracks that breaks grown men. Henry is
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  • The Alpha’s Second Life   72

    "Cover your mouths! Get back into the tunnels!"Richard’s voice cracked like a whip over the panic. Above us, the gray sky didn't drop water. It dropped dust. A fine, metallic mist that caught the morning light, turning the air into a haze of pulverized silver. My lungs burned at the first whiff. It wasn't just poison; it was a cage."Richard, wait—" I grabbed his arm. My fingers slipped against the sweat and grit on his bicep. "Don't shift! If you shift now, the intake will kill you in seconds!"He turned, his eyes already bleeding into that frantic Alpha gold. "My scouts are out there, Joshua! They’re hitting the dirt and they aren't getting back up!"Across the clearing, three of the Ridge guards had fallen. They weren't dead yet. They were worse. They were shifting involuntarily, their bodies caught in a spasming mid-point between human and wolf. The silver rain hit their open pores, sizzling. They clawed at their throats, coughing up thick, black bile that smoked when it hit the

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   71

    "Don't move, Bianca."The words didn't come from my throat. They came from the room itself. The floorboards vibrated. Dust shook from the ceiling. Bianca’s body slammed into the stone floor as if an invisible hand had just crushed her spine. She let out a choked, wet sound—half-sob, half-grunt."Joshua, stop!" Richard’s voice was a ragged scrape. He was on one knee, his claws digging into the dirt, fighting the pressure. "You’re... you’re suffocating the whole pack."I didn't look at him. I couldn't. My vision was a jagged smear of violet and white light. The silver heat in my stomach was moving upward, a rising tide of liquid metal that made my skin feel like it was cracking. I looked down at Bianca. She was clawing at the floor, her fingernails ripping against the wood."You came here to bleed me." I stepped toward her. Each footfall sounded like a drum in a cathedral. "You wanted to sell the miracle.""Please" Bianca’s face was pressed into the dirt. Snot ran down her lip, mixing w

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   70

    "Don't even try to stand up."Bianca hit the floor. Hard. The silver dagger she’d been holding skittered across the stone, its metal screaming against the granite. She tried to push herself up, her muscles bunching, her eyes bleeding into that predatory gold. She was halfway through the shift, fur sprouting along her jaw, teeth lengthening into yellowed points.Then she stopped.The air in the cabin didn't just get heavy; it turned to lead. My voice hadn't been loud, but the vibration of it sent a shockwave through the room that shattered the glass in the window frames. Bianca’s jaw snapped shut. Her wolf—the thing she’d spent thirty years sharpening into a weapon—whimpered. It didn't just retreat; it curled up and died inside her."What... what did you..." Bianca choked. Her face was pressed into the dirt. She was clawing at the floorboards, trying to find enough leverage to breathe. "Joshua... stop...""I didn't tell you to speak."I stayed in the bed. I didn't need to move. I could

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   69

    "Don't stop the car."My voice sounded like it belonged to a dead man. I gripped the door handle of the SUV as the tires screamed against the mountain asphalt. The Harrington Estate was a memory in the rearview, probably crawling with DIR agents and fed-contracted wolves by now."We’re clear for another three miles, Richard," Silas said from the driver’s seat. His knuckles were white. "But the grid is hot. They’re tracking the heat signatures from the mercury-shift.""Forget the grid." Richard reached across the console, his hand heavy and warm on my thigh. "We’re going to the North Ridge. The Ancient Den. It’s off the maps. Even the Council hasn't been there in fifty years.""That’s suicide," Silas muttered. He swerved to avoid a fallen branch. "The Ridge is a graveyard. No cell service, no backup, and the local packs there are feral.""They won't touch us." Richard looked at me. His amber eyes were dark, reflecting the dashboard’s red glow. "They’ll smell the miracle. They won't hav

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   68

    "Move! The seals are blowing!"The emergency sirens didn't just scream; they vibrated through my teeth. Richard’s arm hooked under my knees, hauling me up against his chest. I felt the wet heat of his skin against my face, smelling like salt and the metallic tang of his mercury blood. Behind us, the facility groaned. A deep, tectonic sound. The ocean was claiming its due."Don't leave them!" I grabbed Richard’s shoulder, my fingers digging into his muscle. "The others! Look!""I have them, Joshua. Just breathe."Behind us, the liberated Omegas moved like a pack of ghosts. They were pale, shivering in their thin hospital gowns, their feet splashing through the six inches of rising water. They didn't run. They followed Richard. He was the sun in their dark world, the only thing keeping the ceiling from crushing us all."The airlock is jammed!" Silas screamed from the end of the hall. He was kicking at the heavy steel door. "Richard, we’re trapped!""Move aside."Richard didn't slow down

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   67

    "Dive! Now!"Richard didn't wait for the boat to slow. He launched himself from the deck of the Black Obsidian. The night air was a freezing slap against his bare chest, but his blood was boiling, thick with the silver poison he’d injected. He shifted mid-flight. Bones snapped and reformed with a sound like dry branches breaking in a storm. By the time he hit the Atlantic, he was a six-hundred-pound engine of fur and fury.The water exploded.Richard kicked his back legs, driving himself deeper. The pressure squeezed his lungs, but he didn't care. He could taste Joshua in the water—salt, mercury, and the sharp, metallic tang of fear."Target in the water!" A voice crackled through the sonar. "Three o'clock! Fire the harpoons!"A silver streak hissed through the dark. Whirr. It caught Richard in the thigh. He didn't howl. He couldn't. He just felt the cold burn of the silver spreading through his muscle. He grabbed the shaft with his teeth and ripped it out. A cloud of dark red blossom

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   66

    "He’s flatlining. Get the paddles!"The shout echoed through the sterile, silver-mesh walls of my cage. My head lolled. My chin hit my chest. Sweat dripped from my nose, stinging the raw burns on my neck. I wasn't flatlining. I was holding my breath, slowing my pulse to a crawl, and watching the mo

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   CHAPTER 9

    "What the hell are you looking for, Harrington?"The lock on the office door clicked shut behind Joshua. Richard didn't flinch. He stood by the mahogany desk, his massive frame silhouetted against the hospital’s sterile LED hum. He had a pair of tweezers in one hand and a glass specimen jar in the

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   CHAPTER 7

    "Check the monitors. Again. The vent is sticking."Joshua didn't look up from the syringe. He pushed a needle into the rubber seal, drawing a precise dose of clear, cold liquid. The air in the Patriarch’s suite was stagnant, smelling of iron and the slow rot of silver-burned lungs. Edward Harringto

  • The Alpha’s Second Life   CHAPTER 6

    "Hold still. If you twitch, I’ll nick the femoral artery and you’ll bleed out on my boots."Joshua leaned over the sentry, the sterile LED overheads reflecting in his safety goggles. The wolf, a massive brute named Kael, gripped the edges of the metal exam table until the steel groaned and buckled

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