All Chapters of The Alpha's Stray Secret : Chapter 81 - Chapter 82

The victory at Blackwood Pass was clean, silent, and absolute.By mid-afternoon, the four thousand disarmed legionnaires were organized into neat, orderly ranks along the lower valley floor, escorted under heavy guard toward the secondary holding encampments at Fort Oakhaven. The siege crawlers had been impounded by Rurik’s Western Ridge mechanics, their weapons stripped and their heavy diesel engines repurposed to haul supply sleds for the northern relief efforts.Inside the high-walled inner courtyard of Blackthorn Manor, the heavy iron gates groaned shut as the primary tactical transport crawler brought the high-value prisoners through the threshold.General Vane stepped down from the armored vehicle, his wrists bound in heavy, high-tier magnetic stasis cuffs. His blood-red tunic was stained with soot and frost, his iron-gray hair disheveled, but his posture remained rigid, his jaw set in a hard, bitter line. Behind him walked his four senior staff officers, their eyes darting nerv