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ArselAfter leaving Elina safely in her room under my mother’s strict and protective watch, I locked myself in my study. My hands were still tingling with a residual electric current, a remnant of Leo’s fury that was clawing at the walls of my mind, demanding blood and submission.I had cast Dania out.You should have killed her, Leo snapped angrily.And that cut deep in ways I couldn’t fully explain without revealing what was really happening.I swallowed hard and poured myself a little liquor, but the reinforced wooden door burst open, shattering the deathly silence.Kiel entered first. His face, usually serene and analytical, showed a deep line of worry between his eyebrows. Behind him, jaw clenched and arms crossed over his chest, Keil walked in a state of complete alertness.But it wasn’t their expressions that really alarmed me; it was Liv’s.She was responsible for the settlers’ internal security, so seeing her with a completely serious expression, without cracking a joke befit

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ArselLiv immediately walked over to me to calm me down and squeezed my arm tightly, which helped my beast settle down a bit so it wouldn’t tear anyone apart. My electrical power was about to burst forth, and my back was itching badly—a sign that my divine powers were trying to emerge.I swallowed hard, but I didn’t have to do or say anything.Kiel tensed beside me, immediately sensing the danger in the proposal, so my friend didn’t hold back from questioning anything.“Are you suggesting that the Alpha declare the bond publicly right now, Merton?” my best friend asked without hesitation, and the council members tensed at the sight of my golden eyes. “Elina is in a fragile mental state. She’s not ready for the pressure of being this pack’s Moon, nor does she know what that means for our world. She’s barely recovering.”I bit my tongu

Chapter 43

ArselWhat I had done in the square was so unusual that I wondered if it had actually worked.No one said a word after my declaration of dominance; there was just a silence so deathly that my heart was racing. My father appeared at that moment, took in the situation, and looked at my friends. Finally, Liv broke the silence.She, in her kindness, explained succinctly, without revealing many details, the reasons why everyone should remain silent, and it wasn’t until everyone had sealed a pact of silence that my body released some of the tension.The next day, the situation was lighter, but I could sense a lingering unease among the people.I have a horrible feeling, Leo said, and that didn’t surprise me.That day, the afternoon dragged on with an almost agonizing slowness.I should have been reviewing the border reports or handling the councilors’ complaints following Dania’s exile, but my mind refused to focus on the bureaucracy.Weeks had passed since we found Elina at the border, bro

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ArselIn that instant, the world shook.The devastating look on my mate's face overwhelmed me immediately.Elina was truly hurt and devastated, and that was something no one could fake, which is why I cursed the situation in my mind.The fact that she had heard the truth in the worst possible way, taken out of context, cold, falling on her fragile mind like a block of ice, was the worst thing for her well-being.You have to make her stop crying, Leo pleaded, getting just as worked up, if not more, than I was.“Elina, let me explain—”“No!” She screamed so hard that my skin crawled. Finally, the sound of her desperation hit me in the chest. “There’s nothing to explain! I’m Elaine Thorn. My father is a monster who wants to kill all of you. My fiancé... that man, Maxon... His family hates yours. Your family killed his father. I’m the damn reason your pack is going to bleed! I’m evil, Arsel. My blood is poison to this place. If I stay here, the kids at school, Sorine, your parents... Ever

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ElaineMy head hurt too much.The pain was like a shrapnel bomb that struck everything in its path, and my body was suffering more than I could even admit. The fact that Arsel was carrying me was all I needed to understand my condition.A cramp shook my body, and then a ringing disturbed my ears before a sharp throb in my head made me scream.“Hang in there, sweetheart,” Arsel whispered.And I held back another scream, enduring the pain like a damn champion.Surprisingly, the scent of the forest was already familiar to me, and I knew exactly where we were.I didn’t know if it was the intensity of that scent or the swaying of Arsel’s walk, but nausea hit me, and vomit rose fiercely in my throat.“Stop,” I asked, and he did.Two seconds later, when he set me down on the ground, I threw up my weight in bile, and then Selene approached with a bottle of water.“She’s getting sick faster than usual,” Amelie muttered. “Zanders, please, run and go to Bless. Tell him what’s happening, explain

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ArselMy hands were still clasped around my mate’s.She looked at me so intently that my heart pounded, and Leo growled with relief, but I still felt I had to do more.“Thank you,” she whispered. “Thank you for seeing me.”“I’ll always see you, always,” I said before hugging her.My mother and Aunt Amelie smiled at me, then she whispered something that surprised me.“My name is Elaine,” she said, and I tensed. “It was a name chosen by my grandmother; please call me that.”My mother and aunt nodded, but I looked my mate in the eyes.“Is that what you really want?” I asked carefully.“Yes,” she said firmly. “My grandmother was the only person in the family who truly loved me, so I want to continue honoring her choice.”I nodded respectfully.She was no longer Elina; she was Elaine.The name settled on my tongue like a prayer and like a sentence.I had spent entire weeks calling her Elina with a tenderness that tore me apart inside because she needed it. That name had been a refuge, a ne

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ArselMy promise was very serious, yet she didn’t hesitate to ask something that completely shook me: “Do you promise you won’t let me become just what Maxon made me?”This time my voice came out deeper.“Elaine, even if the whole world tried to reduce you to your pain, I would still see everything you are,” I said without hesitation.She trembled.I held her a little tighter because that was what she needed.Hours later, when night had already covered Crescent in a dark cloak, we set out down a side path. There were no long goodbyes. Mom gave Elaine a bag with medicine, tonics, comfortable clothes, and a new notebook. Amelie put a small silver charm on her wrist. My father gave me a look that said too many things: protect yourself, protect her, don’t lose yourself in your wolf.They were firm, and I nodded.Amelie and Zanders had everything ready to set off in another truck, which put my mind at ease a little. Then I loaded the bags into the truck we would be using and helped Elaine

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ElaineI woke up to the sound of water.It wasn’t a scream, nor was it the snap of a belt.Much less was it the echo of a door slamming open, or the weight of heavy footsteps approaching my bed, or a voice calling out to me in ways that could still make my skin crawl.It was water, a stream.A soft, steady sound, almost impossible to hate.I opened my eyes slowly and stared at the cabin’s wooden ceiling for several seconds. There were dark beams, a small lamp, and a ray of golden light streaming through a gap in the curtains. For a moment I didn’t know where I was. My heart began to race with that automatic reaction my body seemed to have when reality took a while to sort itself out.Then I remembered.The cabin, the forest, Arsel… Peace.I exhaled so forcefully it almost hurt.I was in a wide bed, covered with flannel sheets and a thick quilt that smelled of lavender and cedar. On the other side of the room was a chair with folded clothes. On the nightstand I found a glass of water,

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ElaineI got up because I needed to move.I was feeling too many things in my body, and none of them knew how to come to terms with what I’d just seen. I took a few steps toward the water and looked at my fragmented reflection.Arsel stayed seated; he didn’t follow me, and I was grateful for that.Though that, too, was a response.At noon, we made soup. Well, Arsel made it, and I supervised with an authority that, according to him, was “terribly human” and “slightly scathing.” I told him that chopping carrots the size of rocks didn’t count as cooking, and he accused me of having impossible standards. We ended up laughing more than expected.In the afternoon, we read by the fireplace.He reviewed some reports that had arrived via a magical channel from Amelie but set them aside when he saw that I was staring too intently at the wax seal

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MaxonThe area was finally mapped out.The map covered almost the entire basement wall, and for days I’d hated it because it mocked me. Lines, borders, blind spots, smuggling routes, supernatural settlements, old forest trails, back roads, neutral territories of sorceresses, packs allied with Crescent, and areas protected by fae magic.A whole damn labyrinth created to hide a woman who belonged to me.Elaine.My pet.The woman who had learned to lower her gaze when I spoke. The same woman who dared to run away from me, to use resources I hadn’t authorized, to send my men running like dogs off-leash while she hid in monster territory.Her running away was serious, but her hiding among wolves was a humiliation.That Arsel Dubois was involved was a declaration of war.I squeezed the whiskey glass until the glass cracked between my fingers. Blood spurted from my palm, and the pain brought me some clarity. I watched the red drops fall onto the table and smiled. Blood always cleared my head

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