Smoke and Mirrors Book One

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fallen comrades. Their glassy eyes focused on me, but I paid them no attention. The smell of their b

pack lives on is bound to its Alpha and his family, nothing would prosper in the land unless the entire Alpha bloodline was wiped out or the Alpha signed away his power in blood. The latter was how my father conquered most of the other packs, but Blackwater was different, Alpha Edan and Head Warrior Commander Xavier were too strong, leaving my father no choice. Luckily, the Alpha's son was nothing like his father, just like how I was nothing like mine. I had made sure to tear the Great Oak from the root, ensuring that it would never be

ile at the man who dared to interrupt me. My grin wid

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ed heads of his group. He belonged to my scouting team who

find the body of

at I could not be the true owner of the land I stood upon. I could not

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ronghold that Ryder used to boast about. He bragged to many Alphas that nothing could breach it, tha

It was the furthest from the main entrance to the house but was the closest t

They were covered in soot and blood, individual features almost indisti

t a cosie

on with all the other packs causing them to refuse our attempts as diplomacy. I remember standing in this very room, watching as Edan and Xavier berated my father for his methods. They ran him out before exposing his methods to the other packs, driving us into ruin. The

knees before me. The entire room was as silent as a grave with exc

is the

nces should they be defiant. The smirk that was on my face twisted into a frown when I was met with nothing but silence, I tilted my hea

epped forward to force his palms onto the ground. He screamed as I placed my booted foot on his hand applying en

his one more time,

as spit splat

e. You are a coward coming after us at our w

his eyes widening when he felt the pre

thing but singing his praises... and since you were on the

s met mine, they were filled with defiance. This was starting to get quite irritating. Every moment they stalled allowed for the child to run further, he could either slip into another pack seeki

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n who were not holding the warriors began to slowly stepped back as they took in my expression. I brought my hand down onto the desk and a crack was heard as it splintered beneath my h

his mea

Now clean up this mess

tegrated into powder to float through the air. There was only one reason that

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hat people knew was that he was the reason why previous attacks on this pack failed. That would give him the advantage to slip into another pack undetected. His tattoo might have been a dead giveaway,