Chapter: Chapter 106Cassie's POVI was mixing Lark's morning treatment when the door opened and Mark walked in.He looked like someone who'd been riding hard and hadn't slept. His jacket was dusty, and his hair was pushed back in the way it got when he'd been running his hands through it repeatedly, which he only did when something was sitting heavy on him.Lark looked up from the bed. "Where have you been?"Mark pulled up a chair and sat down and looked at both of us. "Vale Pack."The spoon in my hand stopped moving.Does he know about the letter?"I went alone," he said before either of us could respond. "Before you say anything. I know. But I needed to find something, and I wasn't going to find it sitting here watching Sorin's face every morning."Lark's jaw tightened. "Mark—"Oh, it isn't about that, he went to find help for Lark."There's a healer," Mark said. "Her name is Berta. She's old. She trained with Sorin back then, and she knows things he doesn't." He looked at me directly. "She said it's n
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Chapter: Chapter 105Mark's POVNobody knew I was leaving.That was intentional.Cassie would have stopped me. Lark definitely would have stopped me. So I waited until the house was quiet, and the morning was still grey, and I pulled on the most ordinary clothes I owned and walked out through the east gate like I was just another pack member heading somewhere unremarkable.The ride to Vale Pack took about two hours.I used every minute of it.Sorin's voice kept replaying in my head whether I wanted it to or not. *It only goes one direction.* I'd heard those words and nodded and kept my face exactly where it needed to be, and then I'd gone to my room that night and sat on the edge of my bed and stared at the wall for a long time.One direction.Like that was something I was just supposed to accept.Lark was my twin. People who didn't have a twin probably couldn't understand what that actually meant. It wasn't just growing up together or knowing each other well. It was deeper than that.Like two things made
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Chapter: Chapter 104**Cassie's POV**I was in the middle of changing Lark's bandages when Jonas knocked.He didn't come straight in. He never did when the news was bad. He'd knock and then wait outside like he needed a second to prepare himself as much as he needed to prepare me. I'd noticed that about him a long time ago."Come in Jonas," I said.He pushed the door open slowly. "Luna, there's a messenger outside. From Vale Pack."I didn't say anything for a moment. I just kept my hands moving on the bandage even though my brain had already stopped.Vale Pack.Jamie.I don't know why I knew. I just did. Like something in me had been waiting for it, and the moment Jonas said Vale Pack everything just settled into place in a way that didn't feel good at all."Leave whatever they brought on the table," I told him. "I'll come out in a minute."He nodded and set something down and left, and I finished the bandage and tied it off and smoothed it down and tried very hard not to think about anything for those th
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Chapter: Chapter 103Cassie's POV "What do we do first," I said. Sorin looked at me for a moment before he answered. Like he was measuring how much I could hold right now and deciding to give me all of it anyway, because he knew I'd want that more than he'd want to protect me from it. "We are stabilizing him tonight," he said. "His body has been working too hard for too long. Whatever reserves he had, he burned through today." He moved back to bed and looked at Lark with that careful clinical attention. "He needs rest. Proper rest. Not the kind he's been allowing himself." "And after tonight?" "We manage it carefully." He pulled his hands together slowly. "There are herbs. Treatments. Things that won't reverse what's happening but will give his body more time to work with." He paused. "How much time depends on how well he cooperates." I almost laughed at that. Lark cooperated after being told to slow down. Lark accepted accepting that his body had limits he couldn't push past by sheer will! M
Huling Na-update: 2026-05-08
Chapter: Chapter 102Cassie's POVThe female omegas were gathered in the east hall when I found them.Seven of them, ranging from the youngest, who couldn't have been more than fifteen, to Mrs Mina, who had been managing pack domestic affairs longer than I'd been alive.I'd called the meeting myself that morning. Winter is fast approaching, so we needed to prepare for it.Store inventory, resource allocation—it was a kind of work that didn't stop because everything else was falling apart.I stood at the head of the table. “Famine is approaching,” I paused. Their mouths dropped like I delivered bad news.Technically, famine is bad news, but it's something that can be avoided and that was the reason for this meeting.How to avoid famine."The grain stores need to last us through to late spring at minimum," I said. "Which means we cut the current weekly distribution by one-third starting next week."Mina looked up from her notes. "The younger omegas won't like that.""The younger omegas will like starving in
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Chapter: Chapter 101Lark's POVFor the umpteenth time, I tossed round the bed, the duvet was already off my skin.The birds hums chirped, destroying all my hope of sleeping.It was a new day.I didn't sleep well.I had lay there long after Cassie's breathing evened out, staring at the ceiling, turning everything Mark had said over in my mind. The border. The stores. The cold season creeping in while we bled resources we didn't have.It wasn't just the pack crisis keeping me awake though.It was the way Cassie had looked at me when I came back from the meeting. That quiet steady look she gave things she was trying to figure out. She hadn't said anything. Neither had I. We'd just existed in the same room carrying our separate weights and pretending the other one couldn't feel it.That was new for us. That distance.I didn't like it.By the time grey light started coming through the curtains I'd already made up my mind. I sat up carefully and swung my legs over the side of the bed. My right hand started alm
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Chapter: Chapter 111 Meanwhile, back in Moonclaw, the town square was buzzing with activity, and the streets were filled with the noise of hammers as they slowly rebuilt the town. Ryk stood near a half-built restaurant, holding a hammer and a chalkboard while giving orders and directions to a group of workers, for the first time in a long time he wasn’t carrying any weapons with him, moonclaw had entered an era of peace. He coughed as he dusted his dark hair, which was covered with dust, he still felt some pain around his body, he had gotten a few burn scars while entering into that fire he had driven through to save Callum and Keira. Catherine was nearby, attending to a worker’s injury, she used to be a healer, until they got married and she had agreed to be the one to sacrifice her profession and stay home for the sake of their child Abigail. Abigail was in charge of ordering and keeping the children in check and making sure they stayed safe, she had taken the younger ones to a building that was s
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-31
Chapter: Chapter 110The evening sun was golden and warm over Moonclaw, its golden light spraying across the green hills in the distance, making it look like a painting, with the grasses making it look even more surreal.Two weeks had passed since the disaster, and everything was slowly changing.The town was undergoing a new team for renewal. The streets had been swept clean of all the ash, and the homes were being repaired from the ruins of the fire that had nearly consumed them. Scaffolds filled the town square, not for execution this time but for rebuilding. A bunch of men had taken the task of carpenters and were hammering away, a few had taken the task of bricklayers and were laying stone and cement. Everyone was working together to rebuild the town. Even the children contributed. The children were laughing and playing as they carried water to the workers. The ruins from Lord Conoron’s rampage were still visible, but the Moonclaw people were ready to wash everything away and start over afresh, thi
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Chapter: Chapter 109It felt perfect.It wasn’t too hot or too cold, it was perfect.Was this what heaven felt like?It had a strange calmness that pulled her from the darkness of unconsciousness. Her eyelids slowly opened, they felt as heavy as stone, her body was aching with a deep, burning soreness that increased with every breath she took. The smell of antibiotics and herbs filled her nose. There was a third smell: it smelt like smoke.Fire.She remembered the fire, the one she and Callum had been stuck in.So they were dead.At least they died holding each other together.She smiled weakly as the smell of smoke clung to her memory. She opened her eyes slowly, expecting the blinding light of some afterlife, or a heaven where she and Callum might be reunited. But instead, she saw a low wooden ceiling. Its pillars looked cracked but sturdy, and she could also feel the softness of a mattress under her.She expected heaven to have clouds not mattresses that smelt of drugs.A fire burned nearby, it was
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-29
Chapter: Chapter 108The townsquare looked like a battlefield.The ground was covered with blood and ash.No one spoke or tried to break the silence.The square had been divided into three factions.One side had the people of Moonclaw who had been dragged to the square by Moonclaw soldiers.The other side had lord Conoron, Isabel, and Konan, a great deal of the rogue soldiers they had, had left them and switched allegiance to Asher.The last side was Asher’s side.Each side stayed quiet.No one said a word.The scaffold was at the center, of the square, Callum stood there silently, his hands tied as he faced execution, lord Conoron had ordered barrels of oil to be kept around the scaffold, he had planned first to hang Callum, the after he was dead, the barrels of oil would be lit. Callum’s body and the scaffold would be burnt.The surviving townsfolk, surrounded by rogue guards, watched in horror, their hopes had been crushed, most of them had begun to accept their new reality, their lives were over under
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-28
Chapter: Chapter 107The town square of Moonclaw was filled to the brim.A scaffold stood at the center, an old wooden platform hastily built under Lord Conoron’s orders, its rope swaying in the evening breeze. Callum stood under it, his hands tied, his clothes torn, his dark eyes looking calm despite the rope tied around his neck. The surviving townsfolk were all gathered by rogue guards. They stood in a semicircle, their faces pale, and their hopes crushed. Lord Conoron stood at the scaffold’s edgeSmiling. His wilful eyes were fixed on Callum, as he enjoyed the moment he had long dreamed of, a Moonclaw king’s public execution, it had to be similar to the shame his own family had suffered years ago. Isabel stood beside him, she didn’t look the same since she had heard of Asher’s survival. Konan, stood behind them, whileEdgar, Beatrice, and Maya stood nearby, they were looking around the crowd nervously.The rogue executioner tightened the rope, and the rope got tighter against Callum’s neck. Call
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-27
Chapter: Chapter 106Alive?That was the thought on everyone’s mind.The hall was silent. No one had said a word, no one dared to. Even the guards held their breaths, waiting for Lord Conoron to say something.Lord Conoron was silent, his eyes on the guard that had delivered the news.He had an empty look on his face.He knew how hard it had been for him when he had first gotten to rogue island, it had taken a while for the former rogue king, Usher, to trust him and when Usher had finally trusted him, he had him poisoned, and then made him change his will, handing over rulership of rogue island to him, if he wanted the antidote, Usher had done as he said, but he never gave Usher the antidote, he had made Asher, usher’s son a pawn king. At the same time, he and Isabel ruled from the shadows, because he knew the rogues would only answer to a rogue leader and now that Asher was here, his presence posed a threat to the rogue army he had assembled.Callum stood between two rogue guards, their grips bruising hi
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