#Chapter 133: Shadows of Control

Giana's POV Reports poured in through our communication network like water through a broken dam. Every territory. Every puppet we'd placed so carefully. Every manipulation we'd spent months orchestrating, all of it crashing down at once. "The Swift River Alpha's demanding answers about his recent decisions." "Moonrise Pack's Luna remembers being coerced into trade agreements." "Three council members are investigating memory gaps during crucial votes." I stood in our command tent surrounded by maps and intelligence reports that had become absolutely worthless overnight. Years of careful infiltration destroyed by one desperate woman with more guts than sense. But David remained mine. My mate paced beside me like a caged predator. Once a shy but ambitious young man, deeply unsure of himself. I had managed to twist his sadness into a purposeful rage. Whispering and nurturing his delusions of rejection and disrespect. I'd spent months encouraging that pain, feeding his hatr