Chapter 102 Provocation Went Wrong
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No.
No, no, no.
Grace was in love with Alpha Jude and Alpha Gideon had just witnessed her kiss him.
When I provoked Grace earlier, I hadn’t imagined my words would become the match that ignited this powder keg. Now, I could see it clearly, unmistakably in the murder blazing through Alpha Gideon’s bloodshot eyes as they locked on Alpha Jude.
For one suspended moment, the clearing went still.
Even the wind seemed to freeze, holding its breath as though it too sensed the coming storm.
“Alpha Jude! HOW DARE YOU!!” Alpha Gideon’s roar tore through the night air like a war drum and then, everything erupted
He didn’t move.
He vanished.
A blur of obsidian rage tore through the clearing, his clothes shredding as his body burst into a monstrous black wolf, taller and broader than any I’d ever seen. Muscle and fury coiled beneath his fur, and his blood–red eyes zeroed in on Alpha Jude like a predator who had waited far too long to sink his teeth into prey.
“Dad, NO!” Grace screamed as her father launched forward with bone–cracking force.
Alpha Jude barely had a second to react.
“GET BACK!” he barked, shoving Grace aside mere moments before Alpha Gideon collided with him in midair.
The impact shook the earth.
They crashed to the ground in a cyclone of fangs, fur, and fury. Blood splattered across the field as Alpha Gideon’s claws ripped down Alpha Jude’s chest, except Alpha Jude shifted just in time, bones snapping and reforming into his sleek black wolf to prevent his throat from being torn out.
Chaos exploded around us.
The surrounding Alphas staggered back with horrified shouts, scrambling
“Alpha Gideon’s lost it!” Reed gasped.
to avoid being caught in the whirlwind of violence.
eyes
They’re going to kill each other! Cecins shouted ideas the ground trembled beneath the force of the blows.
Grace was already panicking, trembling with fear and disbelief. Her voice cracked as she screamed, “DAD, STOP!! IT WAS ME WHO KISSED HIMILHE DIDN’T EVEN KNOWII PLEASE STOP THIS PLEASE!”
Only it was too late
They didn’t stop
I stood frozen, horror thick in my throat like a stone
“1. I didn’t mean for this to happen.” I whispered under my breath, guilt curdling in my stomach.
Two Alpha instructors Locked in a battle to the death. Because of a kiss. Because of a secret. Because I pushed Grace.
This is my fault.” I muttered.
“Don’t blame yourself” Asher’s voice came from behind me, low but certain. He stepped beside me, watching the chaos with haunted eyes. “It was bound to happen eventually
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My head snapped toward him. “You knew?”
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He nodded solemnly. “For years, but Grace hides her emotions well. She smiles so brightly, no one notices her heartbreak. Not even her father.”
“The problem is that now everything’s ruined because of my stupidity,” I said bitterly, clenching my fists.
“You’re not the only one at fault.” Finn said quietly, appearing at my other side. His gaze didn’t leave the fight. “I’ve suspected it for a while. I noticed how she watched Alpha Jude when she was around other men. That kind of longing can’t be hidden
forever.
“You knew too?” I blinked in disbelief.
He glanced down at me. “I had my suspicions. Though they were only confirmed when I gave her flowers she was allergic to. She still accepted them, just so she could argue with Alpha Jude. She wanted to provoke him.”
The realization settled over me like ice. It all made sense now, why Finn was suddenly at ease around her, why Asher supported her so easily. Grace’s entire harem act had been smoke and mirrors to distract from the one man she truly loved.
Then Ryker’s voice cut through the tension.
“I saw it coming miles away,” he said, his tone uncharacteristically serious. He sat shirtless under a tree, his torso wrapped tightly in bandages. “A father can barely tolerate another man near his daughter, let alone a friend. This fight was inevitable.”
Our eyes met, and I blinked. I hadn’t expected such insight from Ryker. Before I could respond, another thunderous snarl dragged my gaze back to the battlefield.
Alpha Gideon lunged again with no hesitation, only lethal rage. He went for the throat.
Alpha Jude countered, twisting beneath the onslaught and driving his teeth into Gideon’s flank with the raw power of an Alpha trained for war. Blood spilled freely.
Flesh tore.
Fur flew.
The grass turned crimson.
They didn’t pull punches. They didn’t flinch. They didn’t stop.
I pressed my hand to my lips in horror. “Why doesn’t Alpha Jude say something? Why not just explain it? Grace kissed him, he didn’t return it. He could stop this.”
It’s simple, he’s not fighting to defend himself,” a voice murmured behind ite.
Ronan
His warm chest brushed my back, grounding me in that moment. I didn’t turn, I couldn’t. My voice was barely a whisper,
Then what is he fighting for?”
To protect her,” Konan said.
My breath hitched.
Suddenly it was obvious.
Alpha Jude was’s fighting for pride. He was lighting to keep Grace safe, even from her own father.
Alpha Gadeon slammed Alphia Jude into a tree. The crack was deafening. Splinters burst like shrapnel, but Alpha Jude retaliated with a crushing headbutt that snapped Alpha Gideon’s jaw to the side.
Sull, they kept going
Alphas around us shouted, panic rising. Alpha Hugo looked visibly shaken
Alpha Jude was bleeding.
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Gideon was snarling.
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Their bodies were battered and torn, their limbs trembling with exhaustion but their eyes, those Alpha eyes, held nothing t fury
Is it possible…Alpha Jude loves her too?” I couldn’t finish the question, afraid of what the answer might mean.
“He’s her father’s friend isn’t he too old for her?” I murmured.
Asher answered quietly. “Alpha Jude is younger than the other instructors. He’s only twelve years older than Grace.”
“That doesn’t change the fact that he’s her father’s friend,” Ryker pointed out, standing slowly, his tall form barely radiating pain.
This won’t stop…” someone whispered. “Until one of them dies.”
Alpha Jude roared, hurling himself at Gideon with every ounce of strength. The two wolves rolled across the field in a whirlwind of fury, blood, and teeth. Their bodies were so torn up and bloodied it was hard to tell them apart.
Gideon’s left eye was slashed.
Alpha Jude’s shoulder hung, dislocated and bleeding.
Yet neither backed down.
“Enough!” Alpha Hugo growled from the side, stepping forward, likely about to intervene-
Until Grace’s voice rang out, shaking the earth more than any blow had.
want to kill each other because of me?” she screamed, “I would rather die first!”
“So you two w
The world stopped.
I gasped as she turned and strode straight toward the edge of the cliff, toward the waterfall.
“GRACE!!” Alpha Gideon shouted, panic slicing through his tone like a blade. “IT’S DANGEROUS COME BACK!”
Standing at the edge, her face streaked with tears, she turned around. “You want to kill him because of me, right? Well, you don’t have to. He doesn’t love me,” her voice cracked, and her gaze locked with Alpha Jude’s, “He never will…”
The ache in her words hit me so hard I felt breathless. What stunned me more, what disturbed me, was the pain I felt in my own chest. Why did her heartbreak feel like my own?
I didn’t know.
I couldn’t answer.
Ronan was still close behind me, and I felt the quickening of my heartbeat.
Then something in the shadows moved behind Grace
My wolf stiffened Ronan’s aura pulsed sharply. I stepped forward.
“What is that?” I whispered.
Fim narrowed his eyes. “Is that a person!”
Alpha Jude, already halfway to the cliff, froze.
Then–chaus
A gure emerged from the shadows behind Grace, in the next heartbeat, he grabbed her.
IT’S A ROGUE!” Alpha Hugo bellowed.
The clearing erupted into screams.
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“GRACE!!” both Alpha Gideon and Alpha Jude yelled at once, sprinting toward her.
My legs moved too but in the next moment, the rogue jumped over the edge of the waterfall with Grace.
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“GRACE!!!” Alpha Gideon’s roar boomed across the clearing but my feet froze in horror as the sudden memory of the rui that belonged to the rogues flashed in my mind.
My breathing stopped for a moment and a sharp pain happened in my chest
I fell to my knees, clutching my chest. “Why did L..see that again?”
