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The Choice of Two Worlds

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The drive back to West Miami was a nightmare. The sun had dipped below the horizon, leaving the city in a purple twilight. As I drove the Corolla through the traffic on 8th Street, I felt a sensation crawling up the back of my neck, the same feeling I had in the garage when Cane watched me from the shadows.

I glanced in the rear-view mirror. A black sedan was three cars back. It had been there since I left the industrial district. I changed lanes; it changed lanes. I took

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  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   The Party is Over

    The curtains of the lounge were still swaying from the impact of Cane’s entrance when the first scream tore through the Opera House floor. It was the sound of a human being coming apart."The vents," Jax’s voice crackled, distorted by the sudden surge of local interference."They aren't coming from the doors, El. They were already in the building. They were in the insulation!"The ceiling rained nightmares. From the massive ventilation shafts designed to cool the elite, the Rejects poured out. They were the failures of the early spliced experiments, and they were starving.Below us, a high-profile senator from the Ethics Committee was mid-sentence, a glass of vintage Bordeaux in his hand, when a Reject, a twitching mass of canine fur and insect-like limbs, dropped directly onto his shoulders.The creature didn't just bite. Its jaw unhinged in three places, and it simp

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   Ground Zero

    The Heights Opera House was packed with the elite: politicians, generals, and CEOs.I spotted Caspian near the staircase. He looked like a god of the New World, dressed in a tuxedo that probably cost more than the Ravaged Pack's entire territory. He was holding a glass of amber liquid, his eyes scanning the room with the bored detachment of a man who already owned everything.I didn't wait for him to see me. I walked straight into his line of sight, a glass of wine in my hand.I watched the moment he noticed me. The boredom vanished, replaced by a sharp, predatory focus. He set his glass down and moved through the crowd toward me, his eyes never leaving mine."Eloise," he whispered as he reached me.He didn't look at my dress; he looked at my throat, searching for the pulse."I heard a rumor you were back in the city. I didn't believe it."

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   I'm His Nightmare Now

    In the center of the executive boardroom, Jax and Viper had created a digital war room that looked like a scar on the face of corporate luxury. Tangled black cables snaked across Persian rugs, and six monitors flickered with emerald-green data streams."I’ve got it," Jax whispered, his fingers flying across a haptic keyboard Harrison had provided."The 'Secure-Coms Node' from across the street. I’m piggybacking on their satellite uplink."I stood behind him, my hand resting on his shoulder."What am I looking at, Jax?""A census, El," he said, his voice trembling."But not for humans. It’s a ‘Harvest Manifest.’"A list scrolled down the screen. Highland Pack: 14 captured. Tundra Strays: 8 liquidated, 4 taken. Desert Runners: Sector clear.Beside me, Torin let out a sound that was

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   Right Under Their Noses

    For the first time in months, I woke up feeling well-rested.I sat on a mossy ledge, tightening the straps of my tactical boots. Below me, the clearing was a hive of quiet activity.Cane was standing near the center of the clearing, checking the charge on his sidearm. He looked refreshed, the amber light in his eyes calm and steady. But as I watched him, a movement near the treeline caught my eye.Viper emerged from the thick curtain of weeping moss. He looked like he’d been dragged through a hedge backward... and enjoyed every second of it. His buzz-cut hair was a chaotic mess of twigs and leaves, and he was engaged in a desperate, one-handed struggle to pull up the waistband of his elastic tactical pants, which seemed determined to stay at his hips.A moment later, Raya stepped out from the same shadow. She was smoothing down her tunic, her skin glowing in the morning light. She had a smudge of dirt on her

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   United We Stand

    The truce was a fragile thing; it was a mutual exhaustion of two packs that had nearly torn each other apart. As we left the frozen Chimera behind, Cane took the lead.He didn't head back toward the ruins of our warehouse. Instead, he steered his Ghost-Bike deeper into the heart of the Everglades.This was the "True North" of the Silver Moon. Up until this moment, the Bloodhounds had lived in the warehouse, acting as the pack’s shield and high-tech vanguard. We were the guardians at the gate, but we had never been invited into the garden."Stay close," Cane’s voice echoed through the mental link, stripped of its earlier combat-edge."The perimeter is rigged. If you step off the path, the swamp will do the work before I can stop it."The path was invisible to the naked eye, a series of submerged limestone ridges that felt like a tightrope beneath the tires of our bikes

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   A New Aliance

    The Ravaged Pack didn’t waver. The Thorne tech in their hands, hummed with a predatory blue light."You fought well, Silver-Blood," Torin repeated, his voice cold and devoid of the desperation I’d seen in the warehouse.He stood tall now, the Alpha’s command flowing back into his scarred frame."But this is where the road splits. We’re taking the gear. And we’re taking this territory."Cane took a slow, deliberate step forward. His silver fur was matted with the Chimera’s black residue, and his eyes flashed with a warning light that usually made men drop to their knees."This territory belongs to the Silver Moon. My pack. You’re standing on the only ground we have left, Torin. We are wolves of this soil, just like you."Torin’s lip curled into a sneer, revealing yellowed canines."Wolves? Yo

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   The Alpha's Mate

    Behind us lay the construction site, but ahead, the Southern District’s main drainage stretched out like the throat of a beast, wet and echoing.Cane didn't move immediately. He stood by the Wraith, his hand resting on the handlebars, his amber eyes cutting through the gloom. The scars on his chest

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   A Ride to Remember

    For forty-eight hours, the bunker had been a battlefield for Cane. I had watched Cane’s body seize, his muscles rippling in spasms as his natural healing factor fought the serum my father had engineered.By the second night, the sweating struggle subsided. The swelling in Cane’s chest receded, and

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   Meaner Than The Monster

    The sun hadn't even thought about rising when the roar of an engine shattered the silence of the shipyard. I was already awake, sitting by Cane’s side, watching the slow, rhythmic pulse of the blue toxin beneath his skin. It was fading, but the cost was visible; he looked thinner, his power dormant

  • The Wolfpack's New Receptionist   Getting Out

    I sat on the edge of my bed, the clock on the nightstand ticking toward eight o’clock. Just a few more hours before the grid would go dark in the Rust Belt."You’re a freak, Eloise! You hear me? A delusional, violent freak!"The voice came through the thick door, muffled but sharp with hate. Isabel

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