Chapter — (Cole POV)
The Plan to Take the Throne
I sit behind my desk, fingers steepled, staring at the map of territories stretched across the wood. Every border, every pack, every stronghold highlighted in red like blood. And one name burns hotter than all the others:
Black Shadow Pack.
Colton’s pack.
The pack that should have been mine.
Dale stands against the wall, arms crossed, waiting for me to speak. He knows I only stay quiet this long when the plan brewing in my head is a dangerous one.
And this time… it’s perfect.
I smirk. “We’ve waited long enough.”
Dale straightens. “You have a plan?”
“Oh, I have more than a plan.” I rise slowly, sliding my hand along the map until it lands on the area marked Black Shadow Territory. “I have an outcome.”
Colton. My greatest failure an
