It locked me out of the phone for five minutes after that last one.

I let out a frustrated huff and dropped the now-useless device on the countertop. A shit ton of messages appeared on the screen a minute later, though, and that caught my attention.

I scrolled through the newest ones. It looked like a group conversation, though it didn’t tell me the names of who he was messaging, just their phone numbers.

I opened all of the messages it showed and scrolled through from bottom to top, so I could read the conversation from start to end. Or the portion of it on the screen, at least.

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That fucker probably doesn’t even know where his phone is

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I tracked it last week and it said it had been offline for four months

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If he’s going to force the princess to mate with him, the least he could do is stay around to help deal with the fallout

If I get one more text about whether or not we’re allowing groupies now, I’m going to lose it

AND THERE IT IS

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Just ignore them

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If I ignore them, they will track me down

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Stop being so nice

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I’M NOT NICE, DAMMIT

And I’m already getting threatening phone calls from her brother. Apparently he tracked her phone

This shit is not good

If he’s going to mate with her, he needs to do it now, before someone challenges him. The last thing we need is more bloodshed

Where the fuck is he?

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I think he’s meeting with a few enforcers about the rogue pack on the north side of the forest. He’d just gotten out of bed when you showed up with the princess, and you know he was out there for days

Enforcers weren’t technically a ranking of wolves. In large packs, they were just guys who worked under the Alpha trio. They were usually in charge of smaller groups of wolves or assigned to specific roles, to help keep things running smoothly. Fletcher had a few of them in the Creek Pack.

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How many wolves are left?

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