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Chapter One Hundred

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Mona's POV

The lock of hair was still warm when I opened the package, as if it had just been cut from Cassian's head moments before appearing on our doorstep.

My phoenix fire erupted without warning, consuming the letter before I could finish reading it, but the words were already branded into my mind: "Every week you don't come to me, I take something else from someone you love." Derek's arms wrapped around me from behind, his wolf's strength the only thing keeping me from burning down the ent
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    Mona's POVThe phoenix-fire residue was so faint I almost missed it—a single scorched leaf fifty miles north of our territory, carrying Vesna's corrupted signature like a bitter aftertaste."She was here," Nova confirmed, her fingers trembling as she traced the burn pattern. "The Amaya-pattern underneath is unmistakable. Our family's fire, but wrong. Twisted. Like someone took a song and played it backwards."Three days of searching with nothing to show for it. Three days of Cassian in her hands, three days of my grandson's fear soaking into my bones through Rose's empathic connection. Every wolf pack from here to the eastern territories had scouts looking. Selena had mobilized thirteen witch covens to scry for Vesna's location, their crystal balls showing only smoke and shadows—wards too strong for even their combined power to pierce."Witch traitors," Selena had said, her aged face grim. "Some of Alaric's followers survived the purge. Went underground. If they're helping her, she co

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