MasukCHAPTER 99NOVA'S POV"We're leaving within the hour." Jason calls out, without raising his voice. He doesn't even look at us twice. He doesn't have to. The room is already silent. His voice can practically bounce off the walls. That is how silent the place is. The map of the pack lands remains spread across the long wooden table, a dark circle still surrounding the compound. Beatrice folds her arms, tipping her chin. "The eastern village attack wasn't random.""No," Cassian agrees. "It was a message. And now they know where we are."Killian's expression remains unreadable. He looks like he doesn't even want to be there with us. If I were in his shoes, I would have already prepared to go back to his pack. But he is a good brother. We can't deny that. "They've always known."After everything we've uncovered over the past few days, pretending our enemies are one step behind no longer feels believable. They have been walking beside us all along."We can't stay here," Jason continues.
CHAPTER 98KILLIAN'S POVI stand right at the place where the mountain overlooks the valley. I almost sigh at the sight. The pack lands stretch endlessly beneath the afternoon sun. Dense forests roll into winding rivers, villages appear as scattered clusters of rooftops, and the compound sits proudly at the center of it all.My father used to bring us here when we were boys."An Alpha should know exactly what he's protecting," he would say. Back then, I believed protecting people was simple.You fought harder, and stood taller. You reached them before your enemies did. Age has taught me the cruel truth.Sometimes you arrive only minutes too late. And those minutes follow you for the rest of your life. The crunch of boots against loose gravel announces Jason long before he reaches me.He stops beside the cliff's edge, folding his arms as he looks over the valley. "I had a feeling I'd find you here," he says calmly. "I needed the quiet." I say, barely turning to look at him. He nods,
CHAPTER 97NOVA'S POVThe smell of smoke reached us long before the village did.It was smoke, burnt timber and ashes. But beneath all of it, there was shouting.No shouting, no cries for help, no barking dogs, no children laughing as they chased each other through the dusty streets.There was nothing. And Cassian knew that he just had to check it out. He had to make sure the people there were actually safe. That was what mattered at that point. Our convoy slowed as the eastern village emerged through the morning mist.My stomach tightened. I'd seen cities destroyed before. This wasn't destruction. This was abandonment.Cassian climbed off his motorcycle before the engine had fully died. Jason and Killian were right behind him, already barking orders to the rescue team."Check every building.""Look for survivors!""If anyone's trapped, call immediately."The wolves scattered, but I stood frozen.The village looked... normal. At least from a distance.The roofs were blackened, severa
CHAPTER 96CASSIAN'S POV"Did anyone move them?" I ask one of the omegas, and he shakes his head, as he barely looks at me. It is one of the moments where I am not proud of the fact that they are scared of me. This one feels different. "No, Alpha."I look across the courtyard again. The motorcycles stand exactly where they have been when they roared to life in the middle of the night. But they are cold and lifeless now. It is almost like the whole thing is a fucking dream. Mechanics have inspected every engine before dawn. Nothing is wrong.No tampered wires. No hidden devices. No signs that anyone has even touched them.It should be reassuring. Instead, it makes the whole thing worse.The stories have already started spreading through the compound. Some wolves whisper that the machines have answered Nova's power.Others claim they have witnessed an ancient omen. By breakfast, someone swears they have seen silver eyes reflected in every mirror on the eastern wall.I dismiss the mech
CHAPTER 95NOVA'S POVBy breakfast, every corridor in the compound carries whispers. By lunch, those whispers have divided into sides. By sunset, the pack no longer feels like one family.It feels like a cracked mirror. But to be honest, I have seen this coming. No one argues openly.Hell, that would have been easier.Instead, conversations stop when certain people enter the room. Wolves who have supposedly trained together since childhood suddenly choose different sparring partners. Long tables that once echoed with laughter develop invisible borders.Some sit together, some deliberately do not. I watch one young scout carry his tray toward a familiar group, hesitate halfway, and quietly turn to eat alone.Across the room, an older warrior notices me looking and lowers his gaze to the floor.He isn't angry. I wish he is. He looks guilty instead. As if my existence has become a question he doesn't know how to answer."They're talking about a vote," Jason murmurs beside me. I don't ask
CHAPTER 94KILLIAN'S POVPeople like to imagine guilt as a sharp thing. A knife, a bullet or single wound that changes everything. They are wrong. Real guilt is quieter. It is a pebble slipped into your boot by someone you trusted. You keep walking because you have no choice, and with every mile the stone rubs the skin raw until pain becomes so familiar that you mistake it for part of yourself.I have been walking with mine for twenty-three years. The abandoned watchtower overlooks the entire valley, its upper platform open to the wind and the fading light of evening. Once, scouts had stood here to warn of invading armies.Now only crows keep watch.I climb the worn spiral staircase carrying a small wooden box tucked beneath one arm.No one knows about the box. Not Cassian, not Jason, not even Beatrice.Some burdens become so old that sharing them feels impossible. At the top, I set it on the cracked stone ledge and open the lid. Inside lie a bundle of letters tied with faded blue th
CHAPTER 40CASSIAN'S POV‘You’re not the only one the council had plans for.’I would be lying if I said that my brother's words weren’t living rent-free in my head the whole time. I hate the fact that they have an effect on me. More than they’re supposed to.My hands are wrapped around my third gl
CHAPTER 39NOVA'S POVI look around Cassian’s room one more time, and I can’t help but smile. His room is the one place that I hadn’t even prepared myself to stay. But I am there anyway. And there is no running away from that.I am there to stay. Unless something goes wrong. And I am always bracing
CHAPTER 37NOVA'S POVCassian is doing everything to make me feel better, but I don't know if it is even working.All I want to do is just rest. Everything to keep me away from Killian and his eyes. I can't help but feel him even in the doors.“You like reading, don't you?” Cassian suddenly asks, a
CHAPTER 36NOVA'S POVI can feel that I am not going to like him before I even come face to face with him.And the moment I do, I only verify my feelings.There is something about the compound that feels charged. But not in the right way. Like an unwanted person is there.But this man… Killian, jus







