JOLENE’S POVThe high council chamber upstate was traditionally a place of stone cold stone, old timber beams, and ancient pack laws that had broken the spirits of human mates for centuries. Today, however, the atmosphere inside the vast, curved hall felt remarkably tense, the heavy air thick with the suffocating scent of wet pine needles, burning charcoal, and the distinct, sharp pheromones of dozens of terrified sector delegates. Word of Alpha Vance’s total physical and financial execution at our front gates had traveled across the mountain passes within hours, completely shattering the confidence of the traditionalist factions before the emergency assembly could even be formally called to order. They had spent decades treating our northern alliance as a convenient, fragile legal arrangement to bypass Logan’s fatherly rules, and instead, they were currently staring at a unified family that controlled the very survival of their winter supply lines.I stood tall beside Jake at the
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