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The smell of fear thickened in the war room as reports kept coming in. My fingers flew over the keyboard, following a web of financial deceit through Wolfe Industries. "Got something," I said, tugging Callum's attention from his phone. "The authorizations all came from a single terminal in the executive wing. Terminal ID matches." I let the words trail off, blood turning cold.

"Matches what?" Callum asked. There was an edge in his voice.

"Amelia's office."

The silence that followed was resounding. Amelia Thornton - pack elder, board member, and the woman who'd warned me about a rising power. Had she been playing us all along?

"That can't be," Fiona cut in. "Amelia's family has been loyal to the Wolfes for generations."

"Numbers don't lie." I turned the laptop toward them. "Every transfer, every shell company, all traced back to her terminal."

Callum's phone buzzed again. His face clouded over as he read the message. "Viktor wasn't the only one. They found the Swedish Alpha's body. Sam
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