LOGINI wake with Sienna curled against my chest, her breathing slow and warm.Callum sleeps between us in the reinforced bassinet we pushed right beside the bed, his tiny fist curled near my hand. For the first time in weeks, the constant pressure in the mate bond eases. Even my wolf is silent, watching them with unusual patience.I press my lips to the top of Sienna’s head. She stirs but doesn’t wake. She needs the rest after everything we’ve survivedA soft knock breaks the silence. Ryker’s voice carries through the door, low and careful. “Alpha. It’s Laura.”I’m out of bed in seconds, pulling on pants and a shirt. Sienna’s eyes flutter open. “Kieran?”“Stay with him,” I murmur, brushing my fingers along her cheek. “I’ll check.”She nods, already reaching for Callum. The trust in her eyes tightens something in my chest. I close the door behind me and follow Ryker down the corridor.The medical wing is quiet this early. Cass stands outside Laura’s room, arms folded, face tight. When she s
The bedroom door clicks shut behind us, and the house finally goes quiet; the world goes quiet.I sink onto the edge of the bed. Callum is already asleep in the reinforced bassinet we placed right behind the headboard. Close enough to reach if I need him. His little chest rises and falls steadily.Kieran moves around the room with quiet efficiency, locking the door, checking the windows, then stripping off his shirt before sliding in beside me. The mattress dips under his weight. He pulls me back against his chest without a word, one arm wrapping around my waist, the other reaching behind us to rest a protective hand near Callum’s bassinet.For several long minutes, we just breathe.“You scared me tonight,” he finally murmurs against my hair. “When you lit up like that and went after Darius… I’ve never seen anything more beautiful. Or more terrifying.”I turn in his arms so I can see his face. The golden threads in my irises reflect faintly in his eyes. “I didn’t plan it. The voices…
“Let me make something clear,” I keep my voice low, letting it carry the same quiet intensity as a thunderstorm building on the horizon. “You don’t get to stand in my home and dictate terms while staring at my child like he’s a treaty clause.”Callum chooses that exact moment to giggle in Tabitha’s arms. His tiny fingers spark with gold. The sound seems to startle Darius more than any growl could. I can feel the confusion rolling off him; vampires don’t understand hybrid magic. They don’t know the way it hums in the air between us, or the way the pack bond thrums in perfect, furious response to my anger.Rowena moves to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with me, her silver-streaked hair catching the lantern light. “The Revenants don’t kneel to nightwalkers,” she says mildly, as if we are merely discussing the weather. “Not even pretty ones with nice shoes.”I see Darius’s companions shift uneasily. One—a younger vampire with slicked-back hair—keeps glancing at the tree line like he’s calcula
Two hours later, we drive through the rebuilt gates of Revenant territory just as the sun begins to set, painting the forest in deep golds and reds.The lodge stands proud again — scaffolding still up in places, but the heart of it is whole. Banners hang from the trees, simple white and silver cloth with the Byrne crest and new symbols woven in — a golden bridge crossing a wolf’s paw.Cass and Rowena organized this.The moment our car stops, the clearing erupts.The howls rise first, deep and joyful, and unified. Then cheers. Hundreds of wolves, both Revenant and Rowena’s old pack, spill out from the main hall and surrounding paths. Humans stand among them too — Tabitha waving wildly, Laura smiling beside her, even a few university faces and local officials who had come to witness the turning point.I step out first, then help Sienna from the passenger seat. She holds Callum close, the faint golden glow still clinging to her skin like starlight. The crowd falls quiet for one heartbeat
The hospital lights hurt my eyes.I sit in the private wing the human government cleared for us, my back against the wall, watching Sienna sleep.She lies in the reinforced bed, golden veins still faintly glowing beneath her skin even after the suppressants and stabilizers the doctors pumped into her.Callum rests in a specially designed crib beside her, his tiny chest rising and falling steadily. Both of them are hooked to monitors that beep softly in the quiet room.My mate and my son are both alive.The doctors — a mix of human specialists and supernatural healers — had been stunned when we arrived. Sienna’s hybrid transformation was something they had never seen. “Cellular restructuring at an unprecedented level,” one had muttered. They ran every test they could while I stood guard, refusing to leave the room even when Rowena tried to drag me out to eat.Now, hours later, the immediate danger has passed. The variant is contained. The Architects’ remaining assets are being dismantl
The drone crashes to the ground in a shower of twisted metal and dying green sparks.I stand in the middle of the battlefield, chest heaving, blood and ash coating my skin, watching my mate bring the sky down.Sienna is barely standing. Golden light still crackles around her hybrid form, claws extended, her eyes still glow faintly. She just tore through the final wave like it was nothing. The government forces arrived in time to witness the end of it.Human soldiers and supernatural regulators swarm the area in organized waves. Armored vehicles block every exit. Heavy-lift helicopters hover overhead, jamming signals and locking down the remaining Architect assets. The Architect elites who survived are on their knees, hands zip-tied behind their backs. No resistance left. Nobody is fighting anymore.I shift back to human form and walk toward her, My legs feel like lead, but I can’t stop looking at her..Sienna sways on her feet. The hybrid glow around her flickers, then begins to dim.
The cabin feels wrong the second I step inside.Guards track dirt across the floor; someone in the kitchen is laughing, grating on my nerves.I ignore all of it.I walk straight to the sick bay.
The moonlight on the water and the salt on my skin. Her pulse is still racing against my tongue, from when I dragged my mouth down her throat and almost lost it.Maddox’s voice cuts in sharply.A few hours after that kiss in the lake, and the world is already going to hell.“Alpha. The body is in t
Where the hell did that car come from?One second, I'm laughing at the barista's dumb joke, stepping off the curb without looking. Suddenly, I felt the headlights blinding me, the engine roaring, and the tires screeching as the car swerved.Then him. Kieran's body slams into mine from behind, hard
Elara is still talking about increased patrols and wolfsbane toxicology, but her words fade as my attention locks onto the girl at the coffee counter.Sienna Hart.When the sun is shining, she looks different. She seems softer, wearing a simple dress, and her hair tied back casually. She is not try







