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The Confession

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Three days passed before Kael could sit up on his own.

Three days of broth and bed rest and Dr. Hayes hovering. Three days of Marta bringing trays of food I barely touched. Three days of Lila climbing onto the bed every afternoon to show Kael her newest drawings.

He kept every single one.

Taped them to the wall beside his bed like they were masterpieces.

"She's got talent," he said, looking at a lopsided wolf with purple fur.

"She's eight."

"Eight-year-old Picasso."

I laughed. It felt good. Lig
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    The great hall was packed.Every wolf in the Nightshade Pack had gathered—whispers rippling through the crowd like wind through wheat. They'd heard rumors. A merchant from the north. Four strange children. The Alpha kneeling in the rain.And now, the Alpha had called an assembly.Kael stood at the head of the hall, his grey eyes scanning the crowd. He looked different today. Not broken. Not hollow. Determined.Luna stood in the back, her four children pressed close around her.She hadn't wanted to come.But KJ had insisted."He needs to tell them," KJ had said. "He needs to tell them the truth. About you. About us. About everything."And so she'd come.To watch him fall.Or to watch him rise.She didn't know which one she was hoping for.---Kael raised his hand.The crowd fell silent."Five years ago," he said, his voice carrying through the hall, "I stood on this dais and rejected my fated mate."A murmur rippled through the crowd."I told myself it was for the pack. I told myself s

  • The Alpha's Hidden Clause   Chapter 9

    The rain stopped at dawn.Luna watched the sun rise through the tavern window, her tea cold in her hands, her children still asleep in the bed behind her.She hadn't slept.Couldn't sleep.Every time she closed her eyes, she saw him. Kneeling in the doorway. Rain streaming down his face. His grey eyes broken and desperate and hopeful."I love you. I never stopped."She pressed her palm to her chest.The wound there — the one he'd carved five years ago — was still raw. Still bleeding. Still aching.Why can't I hate him? she thought. Why can't I just hate him and move on?But she knew why.Because she'd never stopped loving him either.---A knock at the door.Luna tensed."Lyna?" A woman's voice. Soft. Uncertain. "It's Maris. Damon's wife. I brought breakfast. For the children."Luna exhaled.Maris. She remembered Maris — a quiet beta female who'd always been kind to her. Who'd slipped her extra food when she was hungry. Who'd never laughed at her like the others.One of the good ones.

  • The Alpha's Hidden Clause   Chapter 8

    The door clicked shut behind Luna.She leaned against it, pressed her forehead to the cool wood, and tried to remember how to breathe.He knows.He knows about the children.He knows I'm alive.He knows everything.Her hands were shaking. Her chest was tight. The mask she'd worn for five years — the cold, untouchable mask of the Grey Queen — had cracked the moment he'd said her name.Luna.Not Lyna. Not the merchant. Not the stranger.Luna.The girl who had loved him. The girl he'd destroyed. The girl who had crawled out of the fire and built herself into something new.That girl is dead, she told herself. I killed her. I buried her. She's gone.But her heart didn't listen.It never listened."Mom?"She looked up.KJ stood in the middle of the room, arms crossed, jaw set. Behind him, Silas, Rhea, and Ronan were arranged like a tiny army — four pairs of eyes fixed on her with varying degrees of suspicion, curiosity, and barely contained fury."KJ," she said carefully. "I need you to—"

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  • The Alpha's Hidden Clause   Chapter 6

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  • The Alpha's Hidden Clause   Chapter 5

    Three days after the rejectionThe pack house was silent.Not the good kind of silent — the peaceful kind, the sleeping kind. This was the silence of a held breath. Of wolves walking on eggshells. Of a house waiting for its Alpha to shatter.Kael Blackwood hadn't left his father's study since they'd found the body.The room still smelled like Marcus. Leather and whiskey and the metallic undertone of old blood — the blood that had soaked into the floorboards before anyone could clean it out.Throat torn out. Eyes missing.Kael sat in his father's chair.Behind his father's desk.Staring at his father's blood.There was a knock at the door."Go away."The door opened anyway.Damon Cross — Kael's Beta, his best friend since childhood, the only wolf in the pack who wasn't afraid of him — stepped inside. He didn't say anything. Just walked to the whiskey decanter, poured two fingers into a glass, and set it in front of Kael.Kael didn't touch it."You need to eat," Damon said."I need my f

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    Kael found me in the library the next morning.I was reading again. Something about pack hierarchy. Something about the Rite of Ascent. I'd been up since 4 AM, unable to sleep, my mind spinning with words like champion and death circle and forfeit."You're up early," he said from the doorway."You'

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    Three days passed. Three days of breakfast trays and afternoon walks with Lila. Three days of avoiding Kael and failing. He was everywhere — in the hallway at midnight, in the garden at dawn, in the doorway of the library when I thought I was alone. He never spoke. Just watched. Like he was wai

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    The ultrasound room was in the basement.I hadn't known the house had a basement until Dr. Hayes led me down a narrow staircase behind the kitchen. The walls were stone. Cold. Damp. Every step echoed like a heartbeat.Kael followed three paces behind.He hadn't spoken since the word atypical.I did

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