Chapter 110
Chapter 110
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The first scream came from the border while I was still standing across from Damien. The packhouse shook. the lights flickered, then died. Nobody moved until Linda shouted from downstairs, “Alice is inside!” Damien reached for the door, but I grabbed his wrist. “We are not doing the whole stay behind me thing.”
He looked at me, jaw tight. “Sienna, this is not the time.”
“It is exactly the time.” I pulled my hand back and raked my fingers through my hair. “You take the west hall. I’ll take the families.”
His eyes searched my face. “You can handle it?”
I stared at him. “You asking because you doubt me or because you need to hear me say yes?”
His mouth closed, and I nodded once. “Exactly.”
A crash came from the front. Damien cursed, leaned in, and kissed my forehead fast. “Do not die to prove a point.”
I touched his chest once. “Same to you.” Then we split. It felt wrong, running away from him instead of with him, but my feet kept moving. I took the back stairs and nearly slammed into two servants carrying a child.
“Safe room,” I said. “Now.”
One servant looked behind me. “Where is the Alpha?”
“Fighting.” I grabbed the child’s blanket. “Move.”
The hallway filled with smoke and shouting. Rogues crashed through the side doors with traitor warriors behind them. Not strangers. People I had seen eating at our tables. A traitor warrior lunged at one servant. I grabbed a fallen wooden staff and swung it into his ribs.
He doubled over, and I kicked his knee hard enough to drop him. “Keep going!” I shouted. My wolf wanted claws. I forced my fingers to stay human. Restraint. Control. Whatever trial words they had thrown at me, I used them now because kids were watching.
By the time I got the last family into the inner hall, my throat hurt. I locked the door and turned back. Damien was outside. I could hear his wolf tearing through the fight. For once, I did not run toward him. I trusted him to survive, and I needed him to trust me too.
I shifted before I reached the courtyard. It still hurt, but I did not fight it. My paws hit the stone, and I ran straight into the chaos. Rogues pushed through the broken gate. Loyal warriors fought them back, but the traitors knew our formations. Then I saw her.
Alice stood on the raised stone near the border wall, hair loose, clothes clean, like she had dressed for a dramatic villain reveal. A rogue stood beside her.
“Push the north side,” Alice called. “They left fewer guards there.”
The pack heard her. Everyone heard her. A loyal warrior froze. “Alice?”
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She looked down at him and smiled. “You always were slow.”
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Damien’s black wolf slammed into two rogues near the gate. Across the courtyard, his head snapped toward Alice. He saw her. He saw everything. But he did not run to speak for me. He held the line, blood on his fur, trusting me to move. Alice lifted both hands. “Look at your pack, Damien. Weak. Confused. Bleeding because you chose wrong.”
I shifted back behind a broken pillar, grabbed a fallen cloak, and wrapped it around myself before stepping out. My legs were sore, my hair was messy, and dirt stuck to my cheek, but I walked into the open anyway.
Alice’s eyes landed on me. “There she is. The mistake.”
The courtyard went tense. Damien shifted back near the gate, breathing hard, blood on his shoulder. He took one step like instinct, then stopped. His eyes found mine. He did not speak. Good. Alice laughed. “Nothing to say, Alpha? Or is your human pet speaking now?”
I walked forward, bare feet pressing into broken stone. “You talk a lot for someone who spent weeks crying in corners and pretending to be scared.”
A few warriors glanced at each other. Alice’s smile thinned. “I was protecting the pack.”
“You were selling it.” I pointed at the rogues behind her. “You brought them here.”
She lifted her chin. “I brought strength. I brought wolves who understand what this territory should be.”
I crossed my arms. “Girl, you brought kidnappers and murderers. Be serious.”
Alice’s face tightened. She stepped higher on the stone. “Damien weakened this pack by choosing her. Sienna is not a true wolf. She is not a true Luna. She is not even a true member of our world.”
The words hit, but I did not step back. I felt Damien watching me. Not saving me. Watching me stand. I nodded slowly. “You’re right about one thing. I was not born into this world.”
Alice smiled.
I kept going. “But you were not born into this pack either.”
The courtyard went silent. Alice’s mouth opened, then shut. I stepped closer. “You built your whole life on a fake history and still had the nerve to call me false.”
Her hands curled into fists. “You know nothing.”
“I know you lied.” I looked at the pack. “I know she opened the border. I know she gave rogues our weak points. I know she let your children almost die so she could blame me.”
Murmurs spread fast. Alice snapped, “They turned on you because they know what you are.”
“No,” I said. “They turned on me because you kept feeding them fear.”
Damien stayed quiet. His eyes did not leave me. I took another step. “I do not need to be born here to protect people here. I proved that while you helped rogues crawl through our windows.”
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Alice’s face twisted. “You think saving a few children makes you Luna?”
“No.” I lifted my chin. “But trying to kill them proves you never were.”
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The pack reacted then. Not loud. Not cheering. Just shifting, staring at Alice like her mask had rotted off
“Fine,” she said. “If you want them so badly, prove you can keep them.”
She stepped down from the stone, and the rogues behind her spread out. Alice pointed straight at me. “I challenge Sienna before both sides.”
Damien growled, but he still did not step in. Alice smiled wider. “Let the territory see who its rightful Luna is.
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