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Chapter 31: First Day as Alpha Supreme

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One week after Damoew left, Jasmina held her first official Alpha council meeting.

The council chamber was smaller than she remembered. Or maybe she just felt smaller sitting in the Alpha's chair. Damoew's chair. Now hers.

Eight elders sat around the long table. Jetstar at her right hand. Six others whose names she was still learning. And one empty seat where Hardy Armstrong used to sit.

"First order of business," Jetstar began. "The Fernwood family and the Blackstone family are disputing terri
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