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Elena exchanged a glance with Damian, both of them too exhausted and too content to summon much alarm, and a moment later the nurse returned wheeling a cart absolutely overflowing with white roses an arrangement so enormous it barely fit through the door, easily the largest bouquet Elena had ever seen delivered anywhere. Damian actually laughed at the sight of it, some of the old tension finally draining fully from his shoulders for what felt like the first time in days.“No card at all?” Damian asked, studying the arrangement with faint suspicion born, Elena understood, of an entire year spent learning to be wary of unexplained gestures.“Just this,” the nurse said, handing over a small folded note.Elena opened it carefully, and felt something warm and unexpected move through her at the familiar, elegant handwriting.I heard the news through the same channels that told me about the wedding. A daughter and a son I hope they inherit their mother’s remarkable strength and their father

Elena collapsed back against the pillows, weeping with an exhaustion so complete it felt almost like peace, and watched through blurred vision as the nurses brought first her daughter, then, more carefully, her son, close enough for a single trembling moment of contact before the NICU team needed to take him for closer monitoring.“He has your stubbornness,” Elena murmured to Damian, echoing words spoken months earlier over an ultrasound screen, watching their son’s small furious face as the nurses prepared to move him.“I hope so,” Damian said, his voice thick with tears he made no attempt to hide. “I hope he fights exactly as hard as his mother did this year.”The next several hours passed in the particular blur of new parenthood layered over medical uncertainty. Elena resting, exhausted and aching, while Damian split his time between her bedside and the NICU window, watching their son’s small chest rise and fall with a devotion that had, over the course of one impossible year, bec

The drive to the hospital passed in a blur that neither of them would remember clearly afterward Elena counting contractions aloud between breaths, Damian’s hand gripped so tightly in hers that she would find faint marks the next day, Camila in the front seat beside Tomas, praying quietly in a mixture of English and the Portuguese she rarely used except in moments too large for any single language to hold.“Thirty-four weeks,” Elena said between contractions, her voice tight with fear she was trying and failing to keep steady. “We were supposed to have two more weeks, Damian. The cord, Baby B’s cord….”“Dr. Whitman is already at the hospital,” Damian said, his own voice carefully level despite the fear plainly visible in his eyes. “She’s been planning for exactly this possibility for weeks. This is why she moved the monitoring to weekly, Elena. She’s ready for this. We’re ready for this.”Elena nodded, gripping his hand through the next contraction, and found, despite the fear, a stra

Saturday arrived clear and cold, six days after Elena’s answer, and the west wing library of the Cole estate stood warm with candlelight and the smell of flowers Camila had spent the entire week arranging with the particular joy of a mother finally, fully present for a daughter’s happiness. Elena had insisted on very little in the way of formal planning — no elaborate gown fitting, no seating charts, nothing that resembled the machinery of the gala months earlier and found, in the simplicity of it, a kind of freedom she hadn’t expected.The gathering was small, exactly as they’d wanted — Irina radiant in the front row, already crying before the ceremony had properly begun; Camila beside her, dabbing at her own eyes with a handkerchief she’d clearly brought prepared; Sofia holding a small painted gift carefully in her lap; Margaret seated, at last, among family rather than at its edges, her presence a quiet testament to months of careful, deliberate repair.Elena stood in the doorway

He arrived at seven exactly, and Elena watched him from the window as he stood on the front step for a moment before knocking — gathering himself, she understood, the way she had gathered herself the night before, both of them bracing for a conversation neither could fully predict. She found, watching him, that her own nerves had settled into something calmer than she expected, the particular steadiness of a decision already made and simply waiting for its moment.She opened the door before he could knock.He looked, she thought, like a man who hadn’t slept, dressed simply, no suit, no armor of any kind — just Damian, entirely unguarded, standing on her doorstep with his whole heart visible on his face in a way he would never have permitted himself three years ago.“Come in,” she said.He followed her into the kitchen, and she made tea neither of them would drink, because it gave her hands something to do while she found the words she’d been rehearsing since two in the morning.“I sp

She didn’t call him back that night. She went home instead, sat with her mother over tea neither of them drank, and let herself, finally, feel the full weight of everything Damian had said on that terrace without the pressure of an audience or a decision demanded on the spot. The apartment felt unusually quiet, the twins settled and calm, as though even they understood their mother needed the stillness more than usual tonight.“You’re quiet,” Camila observed, watching her daughter across the kitchen table with the particular careful attention she’d developed over months of learning Elena’s silences.“I’m thinking.” Elana said“About Damian, or about the other one?” Camila asked.Elena laughed softly, surprised by the directness of the question. “Both, I think. Neither, really. I’m thinking about myself, mostly — about what I actually want, underneath everything else I’ve been managing for so long that I’ve almost forgotten how to ask the question honestly.”Camila reached across the

Lyra’s POVThe guards dragged me through the corridors and into a large room at the far end of the house, the door slamming shut behind us with a sound that echoed in my chest. I was thrown forward, barely catching myself against a table, and before I could even straighten up, a crowd of maids swarmed around me like bees around a hive.They had clearly been waiting. Cloths, oils, brushes, and bowls were already laid out on every surface, and the women set to work without asking my permission, without even meeting my eyes. Two of them took my hands and began scrubbing and softening my skin. Another pulled my hair loose and started working a comb through it. One knelt at my feet and began cleaning them, while another sat beside her filing and painting my fingernails. The fifth stood in front of me with a tray of powders and colors, ready to paint my face into something I did not recognize.The two guards remained at the door with their arms folded, watching every movement, making sure I

Lyra’s POV“Dad, would you really allow them to take me away?” I asked.My father did not answer. He only looked away, his jaw tight, and that silence told me everything.The guards moved at the same moment. Their hands closed around my arms, and they began to pull me toward the door against my will. I twisted and struggled, planting my feet against the stone floor and trying to anchor myself in place, but they were stronger than I was, and my heels scraped uselessly across the ground as I was dragged backward. The hall blurred around me. Faces stared, some pitying, some pleased, none of them moving to stop it.Then a voice rang out across the room.“Stop.”The guards froze mid-step, and so did I. Every head in the hall turned toward the entrance, where Alpha Cassian stood in the doorway, his face pale, one hand still pressed against his burned and healing mouth.“She is innocent,” Alpha Cassian said.The guards pulled their hands off me at once. I stumbled forward, catching my balanc

Lyra’s POVThe silence in that hall felt like a held breath, and I could feel Nyra rising inside me, hot and furious, her presence pressing against my ribs like a wave about to break.I stood there with my palm still tingling, and a thought settled in my mind, clear and unshakable. If letting my white fox transform fully today is what it takes to destroy whatever stands in front of me, then I do not care. It is high time I started standing up for myself. Going to Silver Moon Academy had never only meant winning battles and passing examinations. It also meant I was supposed to stop being a weakling. So I would show them that yes, I was truly a student of the great Silver Moon Academy.Selene lifted her hand slowly to her cheek, where the red mark of my fingers was already blooming across her skin. Her eyes were wide, her lips parted in disbelief.“Did you just slap me?” Selene asked.“Yes,” I answered, holding her gaze without blinking. “And I will slap you another one.”I did not even

Lyra’s povMy father looked like he wanted to tear me apart. His jaw was locked, his hands gripped the arms of his chair, and his eyes moved over me the way a man looks at something he has already decided to destroy. But I stood still and let him look. I wanted to see his judgment. I wanted to see the new him, the father who had sat beside me in the garden and promised he would act better.Selene’s caption was still burning in my head, every cruel word of it replaying like an echo I could not shut off. My supposed sister making out with her ex mate since she got back from the academy. They were kissing and seriously fucking each other. Best couples indeed. She had written it with a smile, I was sure of it, and posted it for the whole kingdom to read. She had turned something that should have remained private into public entertainment, allowing strangers to judge me without knowing anything about what had really happened.Now she stepped forward, and her voice cut through the silence l

Lyra’s POVI breathed in free air, deep and shaky, like someone surfacing after being held underwater for far too long. My eyelids felt heavy, as though they had been sealed shut, and it took everything I had to finally pull them open and let the world come back into focus.Dim light. A familiar ceiling. The faint smell of herbs.“Wake up… wake up. Thank God you are finally awake.”I knew that voice before I even turned my head. My uncle sat beside the bed, leaning close, his hand wrapped around mine as though he had been holding it for a very long time. But the relief in his voice did not reach his face. He did not look happy. He looked sad, worn down, and deeply troubled, the kind of troubled a man carries when he has been staring at the same problem for too many hours.I pushed myself up slowly, my body aching in strange places. “Uncle… you look troubled.”“I am troubled,” he said quietly. “I could not wait for you to wake up and explain yourself.”“Explain myself?” The words felt

Prince Luca’s pov By royal decree, effective immediately: Prince Luca De Lucian is stripped of all succession rights and formal title pending further review, on grounds of repeated defiance against the crown's authority and reckless endangerment of this kingdom's stability. Further, given the Prince's demonstrated instability, the crown hereby authorizes immediate military intervention against the territory known as Villeron, to neutralize the ongoing threat posed by the fugitive creatures known as Tobias Vale's Shadowbound, and to secure any individuals or materials of strategic interest found within the territory's borders. This decree takes effect upon sealing and cannot be contested through standard council procedure. I stared at the words until they blurred together entirely, fury and horror colliding violently in my chest. "Luca." Leo's voice reached me as though from a great distance. "What does it say?" I handed him the letter without speaking, my hands trembling now des