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~Aiden I exhaled, and let my voice calm in the silence of the room before speaking again.“The person responsible for all of this…is the one whom many of us respect with every wolf blood that runs through our veins.” The room held its breath. “He's the last person anyone would suspect in a case like that.”“Elder Damian.”I let the bomb drop. I didn't take my words back. Voices rose, shock rippled through the hall like a breaking wave, disbelief clashing with anger, confusion colliding with denial.I didn’t move or react. I let it happen because I had already suspected this reaction from the pack.From the corner of my eye, I caught movement.Malakai.He was trying to carefully slip away, his toes pinned to the ground, movement as quiet as possible. Unnoticed by even the people beside him. Two guards stepped forward, positioning themselves behind him before he could take another step.I allowed myself the smallest hint of a smile.Exactly as planned.Rowan moved quickly, stepping f
~Aiden The room settled the moment I began to speak. Voices lowered, movements stilled, and gradually, attention gathered where it needed to be…on me.I didn't need to worry about Damian and Malakai slipping out, because I already positioned guards behind them.I let my gaze move across them slowly. Faces filled the hall, familiar and unfamiliar, all carrying the same question in their eyes.Why are we here?I drew in a steady breath before speaking.“I know this gathering was sudden,” I began, my voice calm, carrying just enough to reach every corner of the hall without strain. “And I understand that many of you are wondering why you were called here without explanation.”A few murmurs stirred, quiet but present.“I wouldn’t have done that,” I continued, “unless it was necessary.”That settled them further.“This concerns the safety of the pack.” I said and complete silence followed. “For some time now, something hasn’t been right,” I said, my tone steady, grounded. “Our movements h
~Aiden The moment I stepped out of the car, the air felt different.Not entirely unfamiliar, but charged in a way that settled deep beneath my skin the instant I drew in a slow breath. The pack house stood ahead, just as it always had…solid, commanding, a symbol of unity and strength…but today, it carried something more.Expectation.The surrounding grounds were alive with movement. Wolves gathered in clusters, voices overlapping in low murmurs that carried both curiosity and unease. Some stood closer to the entrance, others lingered near the edges, but all of them were here for the same reason.Because I had called them.And I had given no explanation.And because somewhere, beneath all that quiet speculation, they knew something was coming.My gaze moved across them slowly, taking in every detail without lingering too long in one place. Faces I recognized. Faces that had trusted the system, the structure, the leadership they had believed to be unshakable.Faces that were about to l
~NadiaFor a moment, the world felt quiet again.Not the heavy, suffocating silence I had been drowning in for days, but something softer…fragile, almost unreal, like it didn’t belong to me anymore.I lay there, still, my breathing slowly evening out as my eyes lifted to meet his.Lucian’s green eyes held mine, steady, searching, his hands resting gently against my cheeks as he whispered. There was something in his eyes…something deep and unguarded…that made my chest tighten despite everything I knew.Despite everything I had learned.The last few minutes lingered between us, unspoken but undeniable. I had felt every second of it. Every angle he grounded me on the bed, just moments ago. For that brief, dangerous moment… I had allowed myself to forget the truth, the pain. To forget everything he had done.But reality was never far behind. The weight returned slowly at first, like a shadow creeping back into place, pressing against my chest, tightening around my thoughts until I could
~NadiaFor a second, I couldn’t move.My entire body froze in his pressing kisses. An instinct signaled me to push him away. But a stronger one wanted him to continue. To go further. Like I really needed him. Like all the pain. The regrets. The lonely days and nights of solitude, crying and cursing every action that led me to be bonded to my mother's killer.Like I really needed that kiss to wash it all away. Like I needed his touch to make me forget about everything that had happened in the past few days.Every damn thing.One freezing second, he held me at the door in a deep kiss, and the next, I was moving backward, his lips still pressing against mine, fingers gripping my waist and leading the movement. I was standing in front of the bed now. His eyes burned into mine, with the kind of desire I hadn't seen since the last time we were intimate. “Lucian, leave.” The words came out softly. Too soft.He wouldn't take it seriously. Of course he wouldn't.Because he could already s
~Nadia The room had grown unfamiliar to me. Not because anything had changed within it, but because I had. Days had passed…how many exactly, I wasn’t sure anymore…and yet the air still felt the same. Still. Stale. Heavy with everything I refused to face and everything I could no longer ignore. I pushed myself into the corner of the wall as I sat, holding my knees to my cheeks, my gaze unfocused as it drifted across the scattered mess that had once been my space. Clothes lay untouched where they had fallen, the curtains remained drawn halfway, letting in just enough light to remind me that time was moving… even if I wasn’t. Nothing interested me. Not the quiet outside. Not the life within the pack house. Not even Lucian. My fingers tightened slightly against the fabric beneath me at the thought, my chest constricting as something sharp twisted deep inside. Lucian. The name alone felt like a wound. Pain came first, then anger. And beneath it… something darker. Something I didn’
~NadiaI didn’t sleep when I got to my room.I lay on my side, staring at the wall, listening to the house breathe around me. The quiet felt heavier than Lucian’s anger ever had. It pressed into my chest, slow and suffocating, until every inhale felt borrowed.Lucian’s words wouldn’t leave me alone
~LucianThe house swallowed us in silence the moment the door closed.No voices.No movement.Just the echo of her uneven breathing and my footsteps behind her.She stood in the middle of my room like she was waiting for judgment. Like she expected a verdict to be delivered at any second.I told he
~NadiaI was terrified when the door broke open and Lucian stormed in. Aiden held me to keep me still and remind me that he was there with me.But still, I couldn't stop my trembling hands, my vibrating knees, and the hard thud of my heart pounding against my chest.I was traumatized with the way h
~LucianI drove into the fucking Wolveschill lounge with my chest steaming with rage. Nadia was there with Aiden and that was a huge threat on its own, how much more in the midst of over a hundred other alphas.I had nothing in mind except skimming alive anyone I found touching her or even simply s







