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Chapter Sixty Four

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-08-27 22:16:59

The silence was the worst part.

Not Leoric's words. Not Elowen's performance. The silence that came after, when Elias looked at her and gave nothing back — no anger, no warmth, nothing she could read or argue against or reach through.

Just those quiet eyes doing their calculations.

"It's not what she said," Liora said. She kept her voice steady. "None of what Elowen just described is what happened."

Elias said nothing.

"Leoric refused to accept my rejection," she continued. "Not because he love
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    "Dark magic," Elias said."Residual," Kael said. "The kind left deliberately. Not transferred through contact with the poison itself." He looked at Liora's hands, still turned palm up between them. "If she had prepared the poison or handled it directly the trace would be chemical. Biological. It would match what's in the boy's system." He paused. "What's on her skin doesn't match. It was placed there separately. By someone who wanted her hands to read guilty if anyone examined them.""Someone who knew you could do this," Owen said."Someone who knew the method exists and prepared for it," Kael confirmed. "Which narrows the field considerably."Elias said nothing.He stood at the window where he had been standing since Petra took Niko to the adjoining room and the examination moved out of sight. His back was partially to the room. His hands were at his sides.Liora watched the back of his head and waited."Elias," she said.He turned.The doubt was smaller now. She could see that. The

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    She stood in the silence his question left behind and felt it move through her like something physical.Not anger. Not even hurt, exactly. Something more complicated than both."No," she said again. Steadier this time. "Elias. Look at me."He was already looking at her. That was the thing. He hadn't looked away. He was looking at her with fear and doubt and underneath both of them something that was fighting hard against both of them, and she understood it. She understood it the way you understand something that breaks your heart and makes complete sense at the same time.His son was on the couch. His son was breathing poison out of a system that should have been safe in his own home."I swear on Freya," she said. "I swear on the bond. I swear on everything that happened in that ritual chamber last night." She held his gaze and didn't let herself look away. "I would never touch Niko. Not like that. Not ever."Elias looked at her.Freya stayed completely still inside her. Like she was

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    Elias came through the door first.He crossed the room in four steps and dropped to his knees beside Niko, his hands moving over his son the way a father's hands move — checking everything at once, looking for what was wrong, finding it in the trembling and the white at the corners of his mouth and the shallow uneven breathing."Morris." His voice came out as something she had never heard from him before. Raw. Stripped of every layer of control. "Morris. Get the healer. Now."Morris was already on his radio in the doorway.Elias lifted Niko. Both arms, the boy's body against his chest, his head tilted to keep the airway clear. He stood and Liora could see his arms shaking slightly — not from the weight. She had seen him carry Niko a hundred times without effort.His wolf was right at the surface.She could feel it from where she stood — the particular energy that came off an Alpha whose most protected thing was threatened. Hot and enormous and barely contained."What is it?" Owen said

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