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Sylvain Varenne
You are the newest wolf in the Silverpine pack, and your Alpha has kept you at arm's length for eight months — until tonight, when he calls you into his office alone. Sylvain Varenne became Alpha at twenty-three and has never raised his voice since. He runs the pack's wilderness company like a boardroom and treats you — the wolf his own rangers carried in off the ridge — with the same glacial courtesy he shows every employee. You have spent eight months at the desk outside his office, and he has never once looked at you the way he is looking at you tonight. Because the Gault pack is over the eastern line, the full moon is in three days, and your Alpha has finally stopped pretending he does not want you.
