DUNCAN'S POV "What you're not serious?" I rasped turning to Lyra. I didn't bother about Thorne 'cause I had no business with him. "It's the truth and as Thorne insinuated earlier, some things should not be joked about." She breathed. I shook my head vehemently find it unbelievable to be true. I've had my suspicious about Sophia and what she actually stood for but being faced with the prospect that the child I always considered to be mine did not belong to me was absolutely inconceivable. "You necessarily don't think that I would believe that do you?" I snickered. I laughed because I wanted this to be a joke and for them to know that I was just taking it lightly but the look on their faces, particularly on Lyra's, one of pity. "I wouldn't advise you to take a paternity test, it might just break your heart even further but if that's all it would take to convince you." She shrugged. "We are leaving for a minute, we would talk about this later." She
THORNE'S POV I stood just in the middle of the hallways as I dialed Elyan's number, I needed to know how they faring out there. He along with two of the pack guards had been sent to monitor the activities going on in Patrick's pack, we had to check out for signs that they were truly holding Ryan hostage before we could attack them. I placed the phone to my ear as soon as the line connected. "Elyan, how is it going?" I asked him immediately. I couldn't be out with them but It was also a part of my duty to check in on them from time to time. "So far, we've seen nothing yet, the pack is clear, nothing out of the ordinary if I'm to ignore how roguish this place looks." I could feel him bite his lower lip on the other side of the line. "I honestly don't think he is holding Ryan." I told him. "We can't say for sure, he wouldn't possibly parade him around for us to see." Elyan said thinking I was insinuating at that. "That's not exactly what I mean, i
THORNE'S POV Peter brushed beside me in the packhouse of the Bloodmoon, "I didn't expect you to come so soon." I said looking at him. I didn't expect him to come at all. Yesterday had been awful, we ended up back at Bloodmoon at half past the hour and all I could say was Lyra couldn't feel herself. Contrary to Tank's words, Duncan wasn't at the pack house but he hadn't returned to the nIghtshade either. I would have wished I could get a hold of him last night even if it was just to lay a punch to his face. Some part of my gut just told me he had something to do with it, he couldn't possibly show up one afternoon and Ryan would get kidnapped same day. It was too much of a coincidence even though we knew Ryan was already at a risk of being kidnapped. "I didn't plan to either but you know the council came over again and they are surprised at your sudden absence. Put more accurately, they feel disrespected." Disrespected? Pfft, that wasn't even a word I would us
LYRA'S POV I sat downstairs in the dining room with Peter after Thorne went out to attend to something with Raphael. I'm just surprised Peter didn't go along with him which meant it wasn't officially and was just something casual. I had woken up early this morning, not seeing him in bed, I dressed and showered on my own and came downstairs to eat where I met Peter. He was already at the dining room when I arrived. "Good morning." I greeted him as I took my seat. "Good morning." He replied and went back to eating. "Could you possibly know where Thorne is?" I asked him. He looked at me. "He didn't tell you?" He asked me. "No." I shook my head. He didn't, Infact I had no idea when he left the room or what time he woke up to say the least. Our race last night had done a lot to me. Caused me to be exhausted and had me passing out, all that trouble, yet I didn't outrun Thorne. It got me pissed but I just knew I would have to pick someone
SERA'S POV"Our land is cursed. Anything planted can't grow," Victor said when Mia asked why he had been hijacking almost all of the Skoll pack’s hard drug shipments.The moment he said that, something clicked in my head. For months now, I had hardly seen green grass anywhere within the Nox pack territory. It all made sense suddenly, though I still didn’t want to believe it.“What are you talking about?” Mia asked, her face confused. She clearly didn’t understand what Victor meant. “How are they food when nothing can grow in the land?” she added.“That’s the usefulness of the stealing,” Victor replied calmly, like he was explaining something as simple as why the sky is blue. “I hijack the Skoll pack’s shipments, rebrand them, and then sell them at a cheaper price to feed the whole pack.”Mia stared at him like he had grown two heads. She didn’t believe a single word he said. Her hands went to her waist and she started pacing around the room. That was her thing— she paced when she was
MIA'S POVOne thing you should know about the Adams family is that they don’t send warnings quietly. They don’t leave threats behind like puzzles to solve. No, they look you straight in the eye and tell you they’re going to kill you. And once they say it, you're as good as dead. That’s just how they are. You can run to heaven if you want, but even heaven won’t save you. No hiding place is safe. Once they mark you, they’ll find you.That’s the kind of people we’re dealing with. The kind who breathe trouble. The kind who eat death for breakfast.So, I wasn’t mad because Victor had been stealing. No, I was furious because he was stealing from the Skoll Pack— the same pack that caused our parents' death. The same monsters that left us broken and cold.I stood up from Sera’s bed with my blood boiling. I didn’t even try to hide the fire in my steps. I was going to confront my brother. I had no plan, no speech— just rage.“Where are you going?” Sera asked, her voice soft and filled with conc