Alpha Thomas POVThe war room of Blackriver Fortress looked like a mouth after a fight—maps torn, chairs overturned, ink spilled like blood across the long oak table.Thomas paced through it all as if destruction was proof of breath. As if the chaos would obey him if he circled it enough times. His boots struck stone in a steady rhythm—thud, thud, thud—each step a warning to every wolf within earshot. Mira stood near the frost-laced window, arms folded, watching the gray horizon beyond the walls. The territory looked bigger from up here. That had been the point of the coup—take more, harden borders, tighten the pack until only teeth remained.They had almost succeeded.Almost.“Almost,” Thomas snarled at last, voice dragging across the room like a blade. He stopped pacing and turned to her fully. “But not quite, Mira.”His golden eyes burned, wolf-bright and hungry.“The coup failed,” he continued, jaw ticking. “We live to fight another day, but we will not fight today.
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