LOGINKILLIAN'S POVI hated the word Mirror the moment Vale said it. Maybe it was the way he explained it so calmly, as though replacing Jordan after his death was an ordinary medical process, but I had already heard enough.“How does another wolf become Jordan?” I asked.Vale looked at me and replied, “Stop thinking about identity. The Mirror does not take Jordan's face, memories or personality.”“Then what does it take?” I demanded.“His function,” Vale answered. “Once the original centre fails, the Mirror copies the Anchor's bloodline purpose.”Reef frowned and asked, “The convergence continues after Jordan dies?”“Yes,” Vale replied. “That was the protection built into the original system. Anchors were temporary. The convergence was designed to survive them.”Jordan folded his arms and said, “I am beginning to dislike my ancestors.”“You're only beginning?” I asked.Jordan ignored me while Vale continued, “A Mirror remained dormant near the Anchor and absorbed the Anchor's bloodline pat
LORENZO'S POVI reached Vale's room before anyone else and opened the secured door so hard it struck the wall. Vale remained seated on the narrow bed, but his eyes went immediately to the letter in Jordan's hand.“Who is Silas?” I demanded.“Give me the letter,” Vale replied.Killian stopped beside me and said, “That is an excellent way to guarantee nobody gives you anything.”Vale looked at Jordan. “You don't understand what you're holding.”“Then explain it,” Jordan replied.“Silas is not a name you say carelessly,” Vale warned.Killian folded his arms and asked, “Does he lead the hardliners?”Vale shook his head. “Leadership is too simple a word. Callum led through fear. Silas created the faction Callum eventually inherited, but he existed inside the old bloodline order long before Callum was born.”“He can't be alive,” Gideon said from behind us.I turned toward him and asked, “Why has that sentence become so common in our lives?”Gideon ignored me and stared at Vale. “Silas died.
JORDAN'S POV“Say that again,” I told Vale.He stood in the ruined treatment room with blood drying above his eye and looked at me without blinking. “The convergence will complete itself at the next moonrise,” he repeated. “You have less than seven days.”Seven days. After everything we had survived, the number felt almost insulting. I stared at him and asked, “What exactly does complete itself mean?”Killian moved closer to me and added, “And try answering without leaving out the part where Jordan dies.”Vale's eyes shifted toward him before he explained, “Every awakened bloodline connected to Jordan will be pulled toward a single purpose. If his parents were right, the choices that formed your bonds can change what that purpose becomes.”“And if they were wrong?” Lorenzo asked.Vale hesitated.I laughed without humour and said, “I am done being protected with half-truths. Answer him.”Vale looked at me and replied, “The convergence will follow its original design. Jordan's body will
LORENZO'S POVThe clinic began collapsing before I gave the order to move. A crack split across the upper wall, followed by the sound of stone tearing away from stone, and Reef's teams rushed the eastern entrance while Mara led another group toward the underground treatment rooms.Jordan ran straight for the front door.“Absolutely not,” I said as I caught him around the waist and dragged him behind a stone wall. Part of the roof crashed into the courtyard seconds later, sending dust and broken stone across the ground where Jordan had been standing.“Let me go!” Jordan shouted as he fought my grip. “Killian is awake.”“Killian being awake does not make falling stones less deadly,” I told him.Jordan twisted around and glared at me. “I will personally end our relationship if you don't release me.”“Which relationship?” I asked. “There are several complicated titles involved now.”Jordan stopped fighting long enough to stare at me. “Are you serious?”“No,” I admitted. “That was a terrib
KILLIAN'S POVI woke with metal biting into my wrists and an empty space inside my mind. For one terrible second, I forgot everything except the silence where Jordan should have been, and my body jerked against the chair before I remembered his face in the strategy room. “If the bond disappears, you don't assume I'm dead.” I closed my eyes and repeated, “Silence doesn't mean he's dead.”“Good,” Vale said from somewhere to my left. “Hold on to that thought.”I forced my eyes open and found him standing beside a table covered with medical equipment. Two wolves I did not recognize were working behind him, checking glass containers filled with dark liquid, while I sat strapped to a metal chair in the middle of what looked like an old treatment room.“Kidnapping is an interesting addition to your medical practice,” I said. Vale barely looked at me as he replied, “Do not fight the restraints. The suppressor has weakened your healing ability.” I tested the metal around my wrist and asked, “W
JORDAN'S POVI could not feel Killian.The silence inside me was so complete that the clinic disappeared for several seconds. I forgot Vale standing in the upstairs window and Reef waiting behind me. There was only the empty place where Killian had always been since the convergence pulled us together.“Jordan,” Lorenzo said as his hand closed around my shoulder. “Is he alive?”I opened my mouth, but nothing came out.Killian had made me promise.“If the bond disappears, you don't assume I'm dead.”“He's alive,” I whispered.Lorenzo's fingers tightened as he asked, “Can you feel him?”“No,” I admitted.“Then how do you know?” Lorenzo demanded.“Because I promised him,” I replied.I repeated the words silently until my breathing slowed. Through the upstairs window, Vale remained beside Killian's unconscious body, watching us as though he knew exactly what the silence was doing to me.“We go in,” Reef said.Mara immediately shook her head and replied, “The underground treatment rooms cou
Jordan’s POVI was still half-asleep when Reef banged on the door and told me Killian wanted us in the main room right now. Something about Marcus. By the time I got downstairs, I already knew.Reef didn’t even try to hide it. “Marcus went straight to Ren after he talked to Killian. Stayed forty mi
Jordan’s POV“Something that belonged to your grandmother,” Killian said, stabbing a piece of bacon like it personally offended him. “And you told Reef to wait until the formal meeting? For real?”“I said tomorrow last night,” I shot back, shoving my plate away. “Well, guess what? It’s tomorrow.”“
Jordan's POV“The forest,” Killian said, careful like he wasn’t sure I’d break. “She’s been in the forest this whole time.”“Yeah,” I said.“While we were having breakfast?”“Yeah.”“While we sat in the kitchen talking about her being gone?”“Yeah.”He stared at me for a good while, lips pressing t
Jordan’s POV“So, what does your mother mean by ‘only Jordan can give them’?” Killian asked, sitting across the kitchen table, staring hard at me. His coffee had gone cold, and he looked like he hadn’t blinked in ages.I shrugged. “Honestly? I have no idea. She just wrote that and ended the letter.







