MasukDamien's POV:The next few seconds after I spoke, I was charged. The question lingered among us longer than I had expected."Are you the traitor?"For the first time since I had known Elder Rowan, he looked completely stunned. His eyes widened, and his lips parted in pure shock.Seconds later, all the color immediately drained off his face. More emotions were flickering across his face than I had ever seen.His expression shifted through disbelief, confusion, and shock before finally settling on something else; resignation.Trying to convey confidence, he looked me in the eyes for a full second before shaking his head,"No," he kept his voice steady and calm, "I am not the traitor."Silence settled over the room as I mused not just over his words, but also over his reactions.Before I could speak, Rowan let out a slow breath and continued."I am not the traitor, but I won’t lie,” he paused and shrugged. “I have been expecting that question, I just did not expect it so soon.”I didn't
Damien's POV:The heavy doors clicked shut behind Blade, finally giving me the space I needed with my mate.Nyssa stood up and leaned over, and together we began to look over the maps.We spent the next few minutes in complete silence. The more I studied the maps and lists, the more my fear grew. Every line in the patrol map was drawn with precision.There was information here that could only be known by an elder. There were even things in the papers that I had no idea about.There was even a short list of vulnerable spots in our territory where an army could pass through. Whoever had created these documents was not doing it by guessing, they clearly had intimate knowledge of my pack.With a frown on her face, Nyssa leaned over and flipped to another paper, one that had the only writing on the entire paper.This paper had a red circle around a map of our eastern outposts. The circle was drawn right near a fence, and it had a single written line underneath it."This is the weakest spot
Blade's POV:Blade spent the entire meeting watching every elder. He kept his hands behind his back, but his gaze was locked on every suspicious twitch or glance from an elder.Every time an elder shifted their posture, Blade immediately locked on them. Ever since the moment Damien had told him that there were traitors in the pack, he had stopped seeing everyone as his friends.Now, they were all suspects, even his father.That was why he immediately heightened his senses when Nyssa told the elders about the traitor. The room had frozen in shock, Blade hadn’t.The moment he realized what Nyssa was going to do, his eyes began to sweep across the council. He began to catalog the different reactions of the elders.Some of them were clearly confused, others were shocked, but a select few of them exchanged glances that could only be called suspicious.Rowan was the only elder who had a reaction that he could only describe as muted. His face was annoyingly unreadable, and that simple fact i
Nyssa's POV:The entire hall exploded into chaos."That’s impossible." An elder blurted out, shock written all over his face,"A traitor, how?”“Who is it?""Since when?"The next minute was filled with so many grumbles, whispers and shocked exclamations. As all of this was happening, both Damien and I watched everyone’s expressions, and once again, we found nothing.Rowan's expression remained unreadable, and neither did any of the other elders show an emotion other than extreme shock.Damien allowed the whispers to continue for a few more seconds before raising his hand."No conclusions have been reached yet," he started, “But our initial investigations have revealed that there is definitely something suspicious.” He paused and looked straight into the eyes of every elder in the hall, “As of this moment, no one outside this hall is going to hear a whisper of this. Is that understood?”Every elder nodded solemnly. The atmosphere had completely changed. The talk about war had been comp
Nyssa's POV:The walk back to the council wing of the meeting hall was completely silent. Judging by the skips she was making as we walked, Elena clearly had so many things she wanted to say, but she could read the room, and she knew that right now, I was not willing or ready to answer anyone’s questions.Eventually, when she realized where I was going to, she leaned in closer, sneaked in a hug and ran off, leaving me standing speechless and smiling.I flashed her a smile, and turned down the final corridor to the meeting hall. Before I even reached the large oak doors, I could already hear the echoes of the raised voices.Somehow, they were already arguing, and judging by just how loud their voices were, I could tell this had been going on for a while. I frowned, and slowed my steps.I needed to understand what was happening before I walked in. Just like I had expected, the meeting had started without me. I wasn’t shocked, I knew that with everything that had happened yesterday, the e
Lyra's POV:The gates slammed shut behind them, and for several long seconds, no one spoke, none even moved. The events of the past few minutes were far too shocking, and they were all processing it at different paces.For the next several minutes, the six Lunas that made up the Crescent Court stood outside the Viscount estate in complete silence. The expensive dresses that they were all wearing were now wrinkled. Their carefully styled hair was all ruined, and some of them even had bruises on their faces.Vivienne, who was the most injured, was the one who broke the silence by spitting out a mouthful of blood onto the pavement. When she did that, she turned around and glared at the towering gates of the Viscount pack,"That bitch…" Her voice was filled with rage. "I'm going to kill her."Amara, on the other hand, frowned as she rubbed her bruised shoulder and hissed through clenched teeth. "I've never been humiliated like this."Celestine, the oldest of them all, was unusually quiet w
The moment I stepped into my apartment, I let out a sharp exhale. I turned around and closed the door shut behind me. The faint hum of the city faded, but I would have loved for it to still be there.It was a welcome change from the suffocating demands and pressure of the Silver Ridge pack.My pers
The moment those words left my lips, a heavy suffocating silence descended on my room.My mom stared at me with a bewildered expression, as though she had never seen me before.“W—What did you say?” her voice was low and filled with a note of danger.I didn’t look away like she expected, instead I
“Stop struggling Nyssa.”Alpha Adrian’s voice was far too calm for a man who was watching his mate die right in front of him.My knees buckled, and I fell on the cold marble floor as the very last of my strength left my body. The taste of copper filled my mouth. It was thick, fluid and mixed with
By the time I pulled into the parking lot of my apartment, it was pretty clear that the sun was getting ready to set. I killed the engine of my car and sat there for a long moment, my fingers resting on the steering wheel as I took deep long breaths.Then, I exhaled and stepped out of my car.The m







