KILLIAN POVThe call came before sunrise. I was already awake when the knock hit my door, sharp and urgent, the kind that meant nobody was pretending this was routine. I opened it before the second knock landed, and my beta stood there, breathing slightly harder than normal.“Border breach,” he said. I didn’t ask questions.“War room,” I replied, already moving.The packhouse shifted around me as I walked. Wolves moved faster, voices lower, tension threading through every corridor like something alive. By the time I stepped into the war room, the maps were already being pulled up, markers shifting across the screen in quick, precise movements.“Status,” I said.“Movement along the east boundary,” one of the patrol leads answered immediately. “Fast. Not random. They’re testing the line.”“How many?”“Not clear yet.”I stepped forward, my eyes scanning everything at once. “Double the patrol on the east
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