Semua Bab The Alpha’s Debt: Bab 31 - Bab 40

Grey attacked the moment both wolves hit the ground.Massive and brutal. All teeth and claws going straight for Kade’s throat.Kade dodged. Grey was faster than he looked.They circled each other. Grey’s brown wolf was huge. Scarred from decades of fights. Kade’s black wolf was younger, sleeker.Grey lunged again. This time aiming low just like Dana said he would.Kade jumped and came down on Grey’s back. Bit into his shoulder.Grey roared and threw him off. They separated, both bleeding already.Sage watched with her heart in her throat. The mate bond let her feel every hit. Every pain. It was like being in the fight herself.Beth grabbed her hand. “He is doing good. Stay calm.”But Sage couldn’t calm down. Grey was fighting like a demon. Aggressive. Relentless. Exactly what they had warned about.Kade defended the assault. Dodged most attacks. Took a few hits but nothing critical.Five minutes passed. Then ten.Grey was breathing harder now. The initial aggression wearing him down.

Victoria started her interviews the next morning with the asylum wolves.She spoke to each one privately in a room at the den. Sage waited outside with Kade while Dana went in first.“What if she sides with Grey?” Sage asked quietly.“She won’t, she is fair." Kade leaned against the wall. “But fair doesn’t mean she will rule in our favor. The law is the law.”Dana emerged forty minutes later looking drained. “She asked everything. How Grey treated us. Why we left. If you pressured us to defect.”“What did you tell her?”“The truth. That Grey is a monster and you saved our lives.” Dana sat down heavily. “But I don’t think it matters. She kept saying the law protects Alpha authority. That wolves can’t just leave whenever they want.”Lisa went in next. Then Marc. Then each of the twenty wolves from Grey’s pack.By afternoon Victoria had interviewed all twenty-three asylum seekers.She called Kade and Sage into the room.“I have heard their stories,” Victoria said. She looked tired. “The

Three weeks passed and somehow nothing exploded.The apartment building was purchased and converted. Twenty-three asylum wolves moved in with actual bedrooms and kitchens and doors that locked, some of them cried when they saw their own space.“I haven’t had my own room since I was twelve,” Lisa said standing in her new apartment. “Grey made us sleep in the barracks. Twenty to a room.”Sage helped her unpack the few belongings she owned. “This is yours now. No one can take it away.”“Until the council votes.”“Even then, Kade won’t let Grey take you back.” Sage set down a box. “You are Seattle pack now. We protect our own.”The clinic expanded into the building next door just like Kade had promised. Two stories. Full medical equipment. Staff rooms. Even a small pharmacy.Jenny stood in the new space looking overwhelmed. “This is too much. We are just a free clinic.”“You are a pack hospital now,” Sage corrected. “We treat wolves and humans. We need the space.”“I don’t know how to run

The council chamber was in neutral territory two hundred miles north of Seattle in a building that looked like it had stood for centuries.Sage gripped Kade’s hand as they walked inside. Her stomach was tight with nerves. Morning sickness had been brutal but she had forced down dry toast before they left.Twelve regional Alphas sat in a semicircle. Older wolves, powerful, traditional. Most of them had already made up their minds before hearing evidence.Victoria stood at the front. “This council convenes to vote on Seattle pack’s request to grant permanent asylum to twenty-three wolves from Thomas Grey’s former pack.”Grey sat on the opposite side with two lawyers in expensive suits. He looked smug.The presentation started. Seattle’s lawyer went first showing medical records. Photos of healed fractures. Scars from beatings. Testimonies from Dana and Lisa describing years of abuse.“These wolves were systematically brutalized,” the lawyer said. “Pack law may grant Alphas authority but

The raid was three days ago and they were still cleaning up. Still waiting for Sarah’s next move.The day passed normally, she saw patients at the clinic, checked on the asylum wolves and had dinner with Beth and Riley.By ten PM she was exhausted, she went to the penthouse to sleep.Her phone rang at eleven thirty with Riley’s name on the screen.“The apartment building is under attack,” he said. No preamble. “Firebombs. Hunters. We need everyone.”Sage was moving before he finished, she grabbed her medical bag, keys and ran for the elevator.She called Cole on the way. “Get every fighter to the apartments now.”“I’m already moving, five minutes out.”Sage broke every speed limit getting there. She could see smoke from two blocks away. Orange flames licking out of second story windows.The street was chaos. Wolves jumping from burning building. Hunters in tactical gear waiting below with guns. Silver bullets.Sage parked and shifted immediately. Her white wolf hit the pavement runnin