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Chapter Seven: What Followed Us Home
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2026-08-20 23:28:00
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CAGED BY THE LYON Chapter Seven: What Followed Us Home
The growl came again, closer this time, and I froze, every muscle in my body locking up at once.Kael didn't wait around to figure out what it was. He pulled me back from the doorway hard enough that I stumbled into him, and Rowan was already heading for the stairwell with his knife out."Rowan, don't," Kael said."If it's one of Silas's guys""It's not one. Listen."I didn't get what he meant until I actually listened. It wasn't one set of footsteps. It was several, moving slow, in no hurry, like whoever they were already knew how this was going to go."How many?" I whispered."Enough," he said, which honestly scared me more than a number would have.He turned to Rowan. "Fire escape. Now.""That drops us in the alley.""I know where it drops us."Rowan didn't push back a second time. He went to the bedroom window, the only one still in one piece, and forced the latch open, the frame shrieking from years of dried paint holding it shut. Cold air came in fast, and with it that same smel
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As we processed everything, Kael watched as I gripped the phone in my hand. I was sure that if I could will it enough it could reverse the last 60 seconds and place my uncle’s voice on the other line, calm and unafraid. Kael then moved quickly as he initiated business mode, and the softness he had a moment ago went away to reveal something tougher and more serious. “Rowan. Now.”As I reached the SUV, Rowan had it ready to go, idling in the parking lot, even the wet pavement was no obstacle to Kael as he guided me to the vehicle with an almost gentle hand, yet the other was ready and focused as he checked every alley. I’d have assumed Silas’s men would be waiting in every hidden place, and in Kael’s presence, I’d learned fear for things I previously had not.“Where are we going?” I asked.“Your uncle’s apartment,” Kael answered,knowing where my uncle lived, “I know everything about you Mira,” he stated, no arrogance in his tone, but fact, flat and simple, that should have been unner
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"They've seen enough.""What does that mean?" I stared at him, my voice cracking slightly on the last word, adrenaline still burning through my system with nowhere to go."It means we can't stay here.""That's not an answer.""It'll have to do for now," he said, and I folded my arms across my chest, too exhausted and too wired at the same time to keep fighting for answers he clearly wasn't going to give me."You keep expecting me to trust you.""I expect you to stay alive.""By doing whatever you say?""If that's what it takes," he said, flat and certain, like the matter had already been settled somewhere in his head and I just hadn't caught up yet.Rowan cut in before I could argue further, stepping over an overturned chair on his way to the door. "We're wasting time," and Kael nodded once, some silent understanding passing between them."Get the car."Rowan disappeared into the dark hallway, and I looked around the ruined clinic properly for the first time since the attack ended, re
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No one breathed. Kael pushed me behind him without a word, his hand still locked around my wrist like he thought I might bolt, and honestly, some part of me wanted to. Rowan had already pulled a knife from beneath his jacket, the blade catching the thin light bleeding through a window near the ceiling, the only source of illumination left in the room.Another knock."Kael," Silas called, almost bored now, like he had all the time in the world. "Don't make this difficult.""You have ten seconds to leave," Kael said, and Silas only laughed from the other side of the door, low and amused "You know I never listen."The first hit shook the metal door hard enough to rattle the hinges, and I stumbled back a step despite myself, my shoulder colliding with a supply cabinet. The second hit was worse, the overhead shelves trembling until a tray of surgical tools crashed to the floor, scalpels and forceps scattering across the concrete with a sound like breaking glass."Is he trying to break in
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Nobody moved, the words hanging in the air between us like smoke.Return what's ours."What does that even mean?" I asked, but the guard only looked at Kael, waiting on him instead of answering me, and something about being talked over in my own clinic, about my own life, made my hands curl into fists at my sides."Clear the area," Kael ordered, voice flat and controlled in a way that told me he'd given orders like this a thousand times before. "No one goes near the bodies until my Beta gets there.""Yes, Alpha," the guard said, and left without another glance in my direction, and I turned back to Kael, done waiting for permission to be part of my own crisis."Start talking.""It's not the time.""It's exactly the time." You walk into my clinic bleeding, you tell me I'm yours, some man named Silas shows up talking about me like I'm a prize to be claimed, and now there are bodies outside my door with my name basically written on the wall in blood. I think it's well past time".He sighe
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The room went quiet in a way that made every muscle in my body lock up, a silence so total it felt like the air itself was holding its breath, and Kael still hadn't let go of my wrist.The stranger looked between us, clearly enjoying himself, savoring the moment like he'd been waiting a long time for it. "So, you really did find her first.""I recall telling you to leave," Kael said, his voice calm in a way that somehow made it more dangerous than shouting ever could have, and the six wolves behind the man shifted again, waiting for an order that hadn't come yet, muscles coiled and ready."Can somebody tell me what's going on?" I asked, my voice cutting through the tension, and nobody answered, which was somehow worse than any answer could have been, worse than being told something terrible.The stranger smiled instead, placing a hand over his chest in a gesture that felt almost theatrical. "Silas Vane. And you must be Mira." His eyes never left mine, cataloguing every detail like he
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