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CHAPTER 51

NEAH The first thing I see when we crest the hill is smoke. Black and thick, rising from the eastern woods. The packhouse stands but wounded. Windows shattered. Front door hanging off its hinges. Scorch marks on the walls. My home. Bleeding. "Stop the truck," I tell Liam. He does. I'm out before we fully halt. Running toward the smoke. Toward the sounds of fighting that haven't stopped. Liam is right behind me. I feel him through the bond. His fear. His fury. His absolute refusal to let me out of his sight. We round the packhouse and the battle comes into view. Iron Valley wolves fighting in tight formation. Bloodline operatives pressing from three sides. And in the center, directing the defense, is Vanessa. She's covered in blood. Hair wild. But her eyes are clear. Focused. She barks orders and warri

CHAPTER 52

NEAH I sit on the floor of my destroyed room and stare at the empty space where my life used to make sense. The floorboard is ripped up. Splintered. The hiding place I created three years ago when I first moved into this room. The place where I kept the one thing that connected me to my mother. To my past. To the truth about what I am. Gone. The vial of blood. The documents. The hard drive. Everything she left me. Everything I needed to understand the markers waking up inside my body. Taken. I should cry. Should scream. Should do something other than sit here staring at empty wood. But the tears won't come. Something harder has settled in my chest. Something cold and focused and absolutely furious. They came into my home. My territory. The place where I built a life from nothing. And they took pieces

CHAPTER 53

NEAH Dr. Nathan Price stands in Diane's study like he owns the place. My uncle. The man who experimented on my mother. The fifth council member. Family I never knew existed. And he's smiling at me like I'm a prize he's been waiting to collect. "You're lying," I say. My hand stays on my knife. "There's no tracker. My mother would have told me." "Would she?" He gestures to Elena. "Tell her, sister. Tell your daughter about the gift we gave her before she was even born." Elena's face crumbles. "Neah, I didn't know. Not at first. Not until after the crash. They told me it was dormant. That it would never activate unless..." "Unless the markers woke up," I finish. The pieces click together. Horrible. Inevitable. "The bond. Meeting Liam activated the tracker." "Not just activated it." Price adjusts his glasses. Clinical. Detached. "Amplified it

CHAPTER 54

LIAM I heard everything. Every word through the door. Every devastating option laid out like a death sentence. The tracker. The bond triggering the signal. The solution that would destroy me. Sever the bond. I stand in the hallway outside Diane's study and feel my entire world crumbling. Kain howls inside me. Not in rage. In grief. Pure, devastating grief. The wolf who dragged me bleeding across three territories to find her is being told that finding her was the worst thing that could have happened. That bringing her into my life put a target on her back. That the bond I didn't ask for but can't live without is the weapon they're using to hunt her. The door opens. Neah steps out. Our eyes meet across the narrow hallway. She's pale. Controlled. The armor is back up. All of it. Every wall I spent weeks breaking through reb

CHAPTER 55

THEO Derek's body is at the eastern border. Right where the property line meets neutral territory. Close enough to Iron Valley that we found him. Far enough out that whoever killed him had an escape route. I crouch beside the corpse. Study the wound. Single claw strike to the throat. Deep. Precise. Severed the carotid and windpipe in one motion. He bled out in seconds. Not a rogue kill. Rogues are messy. Emotional. They tear and rip and make statements. This is clean. Professional. An assassination. Shane stands guard while I work. "Who kills their own operative?" "Someone tying up loose ends." I check Derek's pockets. Wallet. Keys. Phone. No USB drive. "Or someone who wanted what he was carrying." The phone is a burner. Cheap. Disposable. The kind you use when you don't want to be traced. I pocket it.

CHAPTER 56

NEAH Twelve wolves in tactical gear. Standing on the north side of Silverpine Bridge like sentinels. Waiting. For me. "We should turn around," I say. But my voice lacks conviction. Because my mother left something here. Something important enough to risk Kessler finding her. Something worth twelve armed wolves guarding. "We're not turning around." Liam's voice is final. "Theo. Plan?" "South approach. We come in from behind. Hit them before they know we're there." We circle around. The service road is barely a road. More like a path carved through dense forest. Branches scrape the truck. The bridge comes into view from a different angle. And there, tucked under the railing on the south side where no one would see it from the north, is a small waterproof package. "There," I point. L

CHAPTER 57

NEAH Dr. Sera arrives six hours after we get back to Iron Valley. She's everything Liam promised. Sharp. Efficient. No nonsense. She takes one look at the chaos in the packhouse and sets up her equipment in the one room that hasn't been destroyed. Diane's study. I hand over the vials. My mother's blood. The hard drive. Everything Elena risked her life to give me. "How long?" I ask. "Preliminary analysis? Four hours. Full workup? Two days." Dr. Sera is already moving. Unpacking instruments I don't recognize. "But I can tell you the basics faster than that." "Then start with the basics." She does. Works in silence while I pace. Liam stands in the corner. Watching. Always watching. Through the bond I feel his tension. His fear. His desperate need to fix this and his frustration that he can't. Three hours

CHAPTER 58

LIAM I find Sophia in the guest room she claimed two days ago. She's been quiet since the rescue. Watching everything. Processing. My sister sees more than most people give her credit for. She looks up when I enter. Takes one look at my face and sets her book aside. "You love her," she says. Not a question. A statement. "It's more than that." "No." Sophia stands. Crosses to me. "It's exactly that. You love her. The bond didn't make you love her. Watching her fight made you love her. Hearing her stand up to you made you love her. Seeing her refuse to break even when everything around her was falling apart made you love her. The bond just told you where to look." I sink onto the edge of her bed. For the first time since I was seventeen, since I became Alpha, I don't feel like a leader. I feel like a man. Tired. Terrified. Completely at the merc

CHAPTER 59

CALEB Neah comes to me after the incident with Liam on the training grounds. She's flushed. Embarrassed. Trying to hide it behind bravado. "Spar with me?" she asks. I know that tone. She's working through something. Needs to hit something until her brain stops spinning. We've been doing this since we were fifteen. "Always," I say. We move to the center of the mat. Circle each other. She drops into a fighting stance that's more fluid than it was yesterday. More natural. I throw a simple combo. The one I've thrown at her a thousand times. Jab. Cross. Hook. She's always blocked the first two and dodged the third. Not this time. She slips all three. Like she knew they were coming before I threw them. Counters with a strike to my ribs that actually makes me step back. I stare at her. "

CHAPTER 60

VANESSA I've been watching her all evening. From across the dinner table. Through the kitchen cleanup. Now from the doorway while she sits on the back porch alone. Neah Maxwell. The girl I growled at like a territorial animal on my first day here. The girl I treated as competition instead of a person. I was wrong. She sits with her knees pulled to her chest. Staring at the forest like she's memorizing it. The guys orbit around her without even realizing they're doing it. Shane made her laugh three times during dinner. Miles kept putting food on her plate when she wasn't looking. Theo positioned himself between her and the door without being asked. And Liam. God. The way that man looks at her. Like she's the only source of light in a dark room. Like if he looks away for even a second she might disappear. This girl isn't a threat. She's the cen

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