A Warrior's Second Chance (Faye and Alexander) novel Chapter 507

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Chapter 504

BLOOD CRESCENT

FAYE

I had learned very quickly that keeping busy was better than sitting still.

Sitting still made my thoughts too loud.

And lately, my thoughts had been… different.

Sharper.

Faster.

Active in a way I couldn’t fully explain.

It wasn’t frustration.

Not exactly.

It was more like my entire body had forgotten how to be idle.

As if something inside me had been rewired and hadn’t quite settled back into place since Stonevale.

Since being sacrificed.

Since dying.

And then coming back.

Even now, days later, I could still feel it sometimes–that strange undercurrent beneath my skin, like energy

waiting for direction. Like my body didn’t fully understand that I was supposed to slow down anymore.

So I didn’t.

I moved.

I worked.

I filled every gap in my day with something that required attention, focus, action.

That was how I ended up walking toward the pack office with a thick file tucked under my arm this

morning.

Alexander had asked me to put some report together earlier this morning. I had done it quickly–maybe

too quickly. Correcting and highlighting issues that needed immediate attention. My mind didn’t linger on details the way it used to. It just… processed them.

Fast.

Clean.

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Almost impatiently.

t told myself it was just discipline.

But I wondered if it was something else.

When I complained about feeling idle, Alexander, as always, had offered me a position at Crescent

Dynamics. He never seemed to be willing to let that option go.

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As if I could just walk into his company and sit behind a desk surrounded by glass walls and human

employees pretending not to stare.

I had refused immediately, as usual.

Not because I couldn’t work under him.

I could.

Easily.

That wasn’t the problem.

The problem was the way it would feel.

The weight of every glance.

Every whispered assumption.

The boss’s wife.

The woman who didn’t really belong there but somehow owned the place by association.

I was already used to that in the pack. The Alpha’s mate.

At least here, I understood the rules.

Here, if someone looked at me differently, I could read it immediately. Respect, fear, curiosity, challenge…

Humans, though…

Humans complicated everything with politeness.

With silence that wasn’t really silence.

With smiles that meant ten different things at once.

I didn’t want that.

So I had taken on more responsibilities within the pack instead.

More paperwork.

More meetings, more training.

More decisions that kept my hands busy and my mind moving forward.

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knocked on the office door once and pushed it open.

“Hey, I brought the”

My words stopped mid–sentence.

Alexander wasn’t there.

Instead, Cole looked up from behind the desk.

His expression brightened instantly.

“Luna.”

“Hi, Cole.”

He stood immediately.

It always amused me a little how quickly he moved when I entered a room, even after all this time.

“Good morning,” he said warmly.

I lifted the file slightly. “I thought Alexander was around.”

He should have been. He was here about an hour ago.

Cole paused for half a second before shaking his head.

“He isn’t here right now.”

That made me pause.

My head tilted slightly.

That was unexpected.

“Caught up with something,” Cole added.

I raised an eyebrow.

That explanation floated in the air for a moment, not quite settling.

Caught up with something was… vague.

My first thought was council–related.

It usually was.

“Council meeting?” I asked.

Cole shook his head again.

“No.”

That ruled that out.

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Lexhaled lightly and shifted my weight.

If it wasn’t council business, then it was probably the company.

That made more sense.

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Alexander often moved between both worlds without warning. One moment he was handling pack disputes, the next he was dealing with corporate emergencies that somehow required his immediate

presence.

I had gotten used to it.

Mostly.

Though I still found it slightly amusing how he could vanish without explanation and then reappear later as

if nothing had happened.

Well… at least we didn’t fight about it anymore.

My gaze drifted around the office briefly before returning to Cole.

“Well,” I said lightly.

I looked down at the file again.

Cole’s eyes flicked to the document in my hand.

“If it’s pack business, I can handle it, you know.”

I glanced at him.

That was true.

I extended the file toward him.

“Then you’ve just volunteered.”

A small grin tugged at his mouth as he accepted it.

“I feel honored.”

“You shouldn’t,” I replied.

“I’ll ignore that.”

I laughed a little.

Then I lowered myself into the chair across from him.

Cole flipped through the pages, his attention already locked in.

I rested my arms lightly on the chair, watching him work.

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