“Tell Osborne to get on with it.” Aiden's already assigned a squadron of enforcers to the lab to assist with the experiments and keep an eye on the scheming doctor. “Trust no one. And lockdown our borders. No one gets in or out."
“It will be done, Alpha.” Brutus tips his head to the right to signal submission, then straightens and thumps his fist against his chest. “Romulus rules.”
“Romulus rules,” the rest of the enforcers shout, striking their chest with a fist.
The echoes of their shout linger long after they've stomped away. But all too soon, the silence advances. The longer the shadows in the corner grow, the more the ghostly whispers rise.
Stupid pup. Stupid and weak.
The voice sounds like Odin. His father.
But Odin is long dead. A ghost.
And ghosts aren't real. Right?
It's probably just the wind. Yes, that's it. The wind, moaning around the corners, fading into a plaintive whine that sounds like a young pup crying for his mother.
His mother is dead too, murdered by Odin. There's no help coming for that crying pup.
No, the pup isn't real. It's just the wind.
He has to remember that. It's been hard, though, ever since the shadow wolf attacked him that night. The night he lost the Seeress and gained a curse.
But when he turns his arm over and stares at the black poison spreading through his veins, he remembers. And he goes back to his plotting, his plans.
It's only a matter of time until the poison spreads up his arm, and to his heart. He's in a race against death.
He will win.
And when he does... he will make the Adalwulf pack whole. One leader, one mandate. Operation Romulus will be realized, not just for his pack but for all packs. And one day, the whole world.
And his enemies?
They will live long enough to know that he is the greatest wolf who ever lived. The Alpha of all Alphas. He will allow them to grovel before him, and then he will slit their throats and let their blood be the wellspring from which a new race is born.
Romulus Rules.
And soon the whole world will know.
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