A/N: The next few chapters might take a bit longer, as I mentioned we are nearing the end after all!
Also on a side note, I have decided to include bonus chapters in a separate book as below (I don't know how to embed links but the book is on my profile!):
I'll be starting on the first chapter soon which covers Elijah and Stela's first meeting from their POVs, so stay tuned for that!
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"...Before the challenge was administered, you mentioned Alpha Aaron had reached out to Alpha Frederick for a possible cooperation. Did anything become of that?"
"No. They corresponded for a while, but once the Challenge was made public, Alpha Frederick retracted any possibility of the Night Ridge Pack assisting the Silver Arrow Pack."
When Kayden had finished relating his story to Alpha Landon and Luna Olwen, a period of silence passed on through the hospital room, save for the quiet beeping of the ex Beta's heart monitor.
"...I'm inclined to believe you." Alpha Landon spoke first, enunciating himself slowly as his brain processed the information. "But I'm sure you know that as the former Beta of the Silver Arrow Pack, we don't know how trustworthy you are."
Kayden bowed his head, shame filling his face.
"I understand. Things happened so quickly, and I failed to take action earlier when everything was already going wrong. But I now know that however Aaron and Bradley will go about this, they will do whatever they can to gain an advantage or sway the challenge in their favour. Are you prepared to face whichever Alpha will meet you in the fight?"
Landon turned and exchanged a look with Olwen, who was gazing back at him with concern in her eyes.
The Alpha's heart softened towards his mate. She'd had to go through so much and she'd only been the Luna for a few months...all because of her former mate and his father.
If Kayden was telling the truth and Bradley really had killed both Delta Jace and Gamma Edric, then Landon could expect the man to be out for blood if he were to come up against him in the Challenge. Coupled with the possibility that he'd had an affair while Luna Tess had still been alive before ejecting his mistress-while she was pregnant with twins-off of pack territory, Bradley had turned to a much more darker path than Landon had ever thought.
And by having given the order to his subordinates that led to their demise, it made Aaron at least an accessory and at worst partner in crime in regards to his father. Landon couldn't help feeling somewhat disappointed in the other Alpha - he would have thought Aaron would know better than this.
Landon briefly weighed his options. He could delay the Challenge like Kayden had warned him to, but he could only hold off on it for so long, and who knew what else Aaron and Bradley would resort to. With the small numbers that their pack had dwindled to it made sense that they would resort to more desperate methods.
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Destiny's Tethers
WerewolfBorn an omega into the strongest pack in the forest, Olwen Adams was fated to the Alpha's son and to become the Luna of the Silver Arrow Pack. But her fated mate and her future position were both taken from her by another she-wolf. Salvaging her pri...