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CHAPTER 86
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Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 87
The full debrief happens two hours later in a room I have not been inside before, a long table with a dozen instructors seated around it and a screen at the front already replaying the terrain course footage from three different angles.Kade and I sit at the near end, not next to each other, a deliberate distance that someone decided on before we arrived, and I understand why the moment the footage starts. They want to watch us as separate people making separate choices, not as a unit that might color how either of us is read.The footage plays through the whole sequence. The hold. The variable. The second evaluator cutting off the retreat line. My position breaking early. The two of us clearing the contested section together. It is strange watching myself from the outside like this, the decision that felt instant and obvious in the moment reduced to a few seconds of grainy footage that an entire room is now going to argue about.The instructor who met us at the debrief line speaks fi
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 86
The instructors do not tell us the scenario has a second layer built into it, and I understand within the first ten minutes that this omission is the point.Kade moves toward the ridge exactly the way we planned, low and controlled, and I hold my position at the marked line with Raya settled into the particular stillness that comes before something happens rather than after. The exercise is supposed to run clean from here. Advance, retrieve, return. A shape we already walked through twice on paper.It does not run clean.The first sign is small, a shift in the terrain course itself, a section of the eastern approach that was supposed to be open ground suddenly populated with two instructor evaluators playing hostile contact, a variable that was never on the map we studied together. I hear it before I see it, a change in the rhythm of the exercise that Raya catches half a second before my conscious mind does.Something is wrong, she says.I know, I say, already moving my attention towa
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 85
The assignment sheet posted outside the instructors' station on my third week lists my name next to a designation I do not immediately understand, paired instruction, followed by a single word that makes my pulse jump before I have even finished reading it.Voss.I read it twice to make sure I am not imagining it, but the name does not change, and neither does the small note beneath it explaining that select candidates in advanced standing will be required to lead a joint training scenario alongside a member of staff as part of the instruction program, an exercise designed to test coordination under someone else's authority rather than their own.Of all the staff at this compound, I did not expect them to pair me with him.Mira reads it over my shoulder and does not bother hiding her reaction. Oh, she says, drawing the word out, this should be interesting.It is not the first time we have worked together, I remind her, though even as I say it I know this is different, official in a wa
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 84
Avery is waiting at the training field before the group session begins, already stretched and ready, a small crowd of curious candidates gathering at the edges of the ring the way word tends to travel fast in a place this compressed.I did not expect an audience, but I am not surprised by one either. Nothing stays private for long here.She looks me over as I step onto the mat, the same sharp assessment from the dining hall, though something in it has softened slightly overnight, curiosity replacing some of the challenge.No hard feelings, whatever happens, she says.None, I agree.We circle each other for a moment, both of us settling into ready stances, and then she moves first, fast and precise, a strike that tests rather than commits, feeling out my speed before deciding how hard to press. I block it and answer with something equally exploratory, both of us reading each other in real time the way any two trained fighters do in the opening exchange, gathering information before eit
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 83
The compound has a hierarchy the way every pack structure does, only here it is sharper, more compressed, dozens of candidates from a dozen different packs all measuring each other against a scale none of us fully understand yet, everyone trying to figure out where they land in a room full of people who were all told, back home, that they were the ones who mattered most.I learn to read it the same way I learned to read Ironveil, watching more than talking, noticing who eats where and who defers to whom without being asked and whose name gets said with a particular weight when the instructors call the roll. It is not so different from what I grew up navigating, just faster, condensed into weeks instead of years, every social current here moving with an urgency that comes from everyone knowing exactly how limited their time is to prove themselves.Mira calls it a smaller, meaner version of home, and she is not wrong, though I notice she says it with something almost like fondness, the
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 82
I meet Edan Voss on my sixth day at the compound, in the mess hall, when he sits down across from me without asking and announces that he has been waiting for someone new to talk to who is not exhausted enough to fall asleep mid sentence.He looks so much like Kade that for one disorienting second my whole body reacts to him the way it reacts to Kade, some instinctive spike of attention before my mind catches up and sorts out the differences. Same dark hair, same build, a jaw that carries the same sharp lines, but everything underneath it is different, looser, warmer, a face that seems built for grinning rather than the careful stillness Kade wears like armor.You are staring, he says, entirely unbothered by it.You look like someone I know, I say.He laughs, easy and immediate. I get that a lot. Edan Voss. Kade's cousin, for my sins.I introduce myself, though something in his expression suggests he already knew exactly who I was before he sat down.He talks. That is the thing I noti
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 4
The bruise on my forearm is purple and deep and runs from my wrist to the inside of my elbow. Nia didn't do this one. She has graduated past doing things herself. This was Jade, a hallway corner, and a very specific angle that left no visual evidence except to me.I don't report it. There is no poi
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 3
My father is home when I get back. I know before I open the door — his car is in the driveway and the kitchen light is on, which means he is eating early and wants the house quiet.I come in through the side door."Zara."I stop. He is standing at the counter, still in his Beta uniform, a folder op
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 2
"You're blocking the hallway again," Nia says. "Is that, like, your thing? Taking up space where nobody wants you?"I count four tiles between my left foot and the lockers. I have seventeen seconds before the first bell. Bren is twenty feet ahead of me, deep in conversation with Theo and their grou
Shattered By The Alpha CHAPTER 1
"You were an accident, Zara. The sooner you accept that, the easier your life gets."My father said that to me on my twelfth birthday. He was standing in the kitchen, coffee in hand, not even looking at me. I had just walked in wearing the dress Dara helped me pick out the night before. I thought m
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