Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 266

Chapter 266 Elias Style

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Cole’s call dragged me out of sleep the next morning. The vibration on the bedside table wouldn’t stop. I blinked hard, trying to clear my eyes, and reached for the phone.

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“Daniel,” Cole said the second I picked up. His voice was sharp. “You need to get to the pack.

Now.”

My stomach tightened. “What happened?”

“It’s bad,” he answered. “Two of our patrol guards were killed.”

I sat up immediately. “Killed how?”

“That’s why you need to get here,” he said. “Just move.”

The line cut before I could respond.

I stood up, ran a hand through my hair, and looked at Amy. She was asleep, breathing steady. I didn’t want to leave her, but there was no choice.

I called two guards to stay outside her door, added another pair to the hallway, and left only when I was sure nothing would reach her.

By the time I reached the pack grounds, the air was already thick with tension. Wolves paced near the border line.

Two bodies were covered on stretchers, waiting for the healer to examine them. Cole stood near the perimeter with a hard expression.

“What do we know?” I asked as I joined him.

Cole pointed toward the stretchers. “Their throats were slashed. No scent. No fur. No trace of a wolf.”

“That’s not Elias‘ style,” I said.

“Everyone thinks it’s him,” Cole replied. “Some of the warriors already want to prepare for retaliation.”

I knelt beside the closest body. The wound was clean, straight, and too precise to be from claws. Even a trained wolf wouldn’t make a cut like that.

I lifted the edge of the cloth slightly. The skin was burned around the wound.

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“This was a blade,” I said. “Silver–coated.”

Cole frowned. “Elias doesn’t use silver.”

“No, he doesn’t.”

We moved to the second body. Same type of cut. Same burn. Same pattern.

Cole crossed his arms. “Someone is trying to make this look like his work.”

A guard rushed toward us.

“Alpha–Cole–another attack report came in from the east side.”

I stood immediately. “Is anyone else dead?”

“Two injured. One missing.”

Cole cursed under his breath. “They’re spreading out.”

“Take me to the injured ones,” I said.

We walked fast toward the infirmary. The healer was cleaning one of the guards‘ wounds. The man hissed in pain but stayed still. His partner sat on the opposite bed, eyes wide and shaken.

“What happened?” I asked.

“Five of them,” the guard said. “We didn’t smell them. They didn’t shift. They moved like humans.”

I exchanged a look with Cole. “Humans?”

“Yes,” the injured guard said. “But not regular humans. They were fast. Not as fast as us, but skilled. And their weapons–silver blades and those darts. One hit Marcus before he could shift.”

My jaw tightened. “What kind of darts?”

The guard pointed to a small metal case on the table. Cole opened it. Inside were three silver- tipped darts with old markings burned into the metal.

I recognized those markings.

Cole looked up at me. “Those look familiar?”

“Yeah,” I said. “Very.”

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The guard spoke again. “One of the men shouted something about a hunt. He said we weren’t supposed to be this deep in their territory.”

Cole scoffed. “This is our territory.”

I picked up one of the darts. It was heavier than the newer versions. The kind of thing I had only ever seen in old archives.

“These aren’t new,” I said. “They were used decades ago.”

“For what?” Cole asked.

“To hunt us,” I said. “Wolves. Rogues. Anyone with a wolf spirit.”

Cole froze. “You’re talking about those old rogue hunters? The ones that vanished?”

“Yes.”

The room went quiet.

The rogue hunter group wasn’t a myth. They were real. Specialized and trained for one purpose: to wipe out wolves, rogue packs, and anyone who got in their way.

Old packs fought them years before my time. The hunters disappeared after a huge battle that supposedly wiped them out.

But these darts were theirs.

“Why now?” Cole asked.

“No idea,” I said. “But they’re back.”

Cole paced a few steps. “Everyone thinks Elias is behind this.”

“That’s the point,” I said. “Someone wants us distracted.”

A younger warrior entered the infirmary. “Alpha our patrol on the west line says they saw silhouettes. No scent. Same pattern.”

“How many?” I asked.

“Seven.”

Cole muttered, “They’re surrounding us.”

“They’re testing our response first,” I said. “They haven’t gone all out yet.”

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The injured guard winced as the healer wrapped his wound. “They kept saying something about ‘cleansing. I didn’t understand all of it.”

Cole’s expression darkened. “They’re trying to start a war.”

“They already started it,” I said.

I turned to him fully. “We can’t fight them alone. Not with our pack stretched thin. Not with internal tension after Clara. And not while Amy is vulnerable.”

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