Chapter 32: The Traitor's Heart

Darius's POV

My phone buzzed with a message that made my stomach twist into knots.

Tonight. Kill the Alpha before the Queen comes. No excuses.

I deleted it quickly, looking around the packhouse hallway to make sure no one had seen. After ten years of spying for the Midnight Syndicate, I should have felt nothing. Just another job.

But my hands shook as I shoved the phone into my pocket.

Kill Kieran Draven Wolfe. The Alpha who trusted me. Who made me his Beta.

The packhouse buzzed with activity, everyone planning for the coming attack after Sienna's warning. Warriors sharpened weapons while others strengthened walls with silver-resistant barriers. They all moved with purpose, united by loyalty.

A devotion I had faked for a decade.

"Darius!" Maya, one of our youngest fighters, rushed up to me. "Alpha wants all defense chiefs in the war room. The spies spotted movement in the eastern woods."