MasukKillian's POV "You're doing it again," Lorenzo said, leaning against the balcony railing with an amused smile as he nudged my shoulder. "You've been standing here watching Jordan for almost ten minutes, and I'm starting to think you're more obsessed with him now than when we first met."I laughed quietly, refusing to look away from the training grounds below where Jordan stood surrounded by a group of young wolves. "Can you blame me?" I asked, folding my arms across my chest. "There was a time I wasn't sure he'd live long enough to see peace, and now I get to watch him enjoy it every single day."Several months had passed since Silas died, yet I still caught myself expecting disaster to appear around every corner. Instead, every morning greeted us with something wonderfully ordinary. Builders no longer repaired broken walls because of war. They expanded homes for growing families, strengthened old structures and planned for a future everyone finally believed would come.The territory
Jordan's POV"If either of you snores in my ear one more time, I swear I'll start sleeping in another room," I grumbled as I slowly opened my eyes, already regretting the fact that I was wedged between two grown wolves who somehow managed to take up an entire king-sized bed without feeling the slightest bit guilty about it.Killian laughed softly beside me before lazily turning onto his side to face me, his hair a complete mess from sleep and his smile so relaxed that it almost looked unfamiliar after everything we had survived. "You make that threat every morning, Jordan, and every morning you wake up in exactly the same place, so forgive me if I'm not taking you very seriously."Lorenzo let out an exaggerated yawn before stretching both arms above his head, looking entirely too pleased with himself. "Besides, if anyone should be complaining, it's me. Killian nearly pushed me off the bed in his sleep, and somehow you're acting like you're the victim here."I couldn't stop myself from
JORDAN'S POVThe silence came so suddenly that I forgot how to breathe. One moment, Killian and Lorenzo were inside the convergence with me, their emotions close enough for me to recognize, and the next, every thread was gone. Reef disappeared, Mara disappeared, and even the oldest Anchor's ancient presence vanished until I stood completely alone.When I opened my eyes, I was in the eastern forest, except there was no sky above the trees and no life beneath my feet. I called Killian and Lorenzo, then Reef and Mara, but nobody answered. Worse, when I reached for my Anchor ability, I found nothing.“Your mother made the same mistake,” Silas said behind me.I turned and found him between the trees. He explained that neither of us had left the ceremonial hall. The convergence had stripped me down to the original Anchor pattern, and his severed bond allowed him to enter the same space. According to him, I could still restore every thread and complete the original release.“And Mara replace
LORENZO'S POV“You really don't remember me, Alpha?” Silas asked, and the faint smile on his face remained as he added, “I was the healer who placed Jordan in your arms the night his parents died.”The memory hit me so hard that my stomach turned. For a moment, the ceremonial hall disappeared, and I was standing in the packhouse infirmary again with the smell of blood and medicine thick in the air. Jordan had been unconscious in Silas's arms, his clothes stained with blood that I had been too afraid to ask about, while his chest rose so weakly I remembered wondering whether the boy would survive the night.“You,” I whispered, staring at Silas as his younger face finally settled over the older one standing before me.Twenty years had changed him. His hair was grey now, his face thinner, and age had carved lines around his eyes, but I remembered the calm voice that had told me Jordan's parents were dead. I remembered Silas saying the people who attacked them might return for the child a
KILLIAN'S POV“Don't move toward him,” Vale shouted as the pressure inside the room suddenly changed, but his warning barely reached me before my body reacted.The command did not sound like a voice in my head. There were no words spoken aloud and no stranger whispering through the convergence. It felt older than language, buried somewhere beneath instinct, and by the time I understood what was happening, I had already taken a step toward Jordan. I forced myself to stop and dug my heels into the floor, fighting the need to close the remaining distance between us.Across the room, my father had done the same thing. One of his feet remained slightly forward, and his hand was pressed against his chest as though he could physically hold his bloodline still. Reef gripped the strategy table so tightly that a crack spread beneath his fingers, while Mara remained on her knees with silver slowly swallowing the natural colour of her eyes.Jordan stood in the middle of all of us, breathing far t
LORENZO'S POV“Everyone out except Vale and Eli,” I ordered.“No,” Jordan replied.I closed my eyes for one second before looking at him. “Of course.”Jordan remained beside the oldest Anchor's bed and said, “He's been holding the original convergence pattern back alone. We are not abandoning him now.”“Have you forgotten the part where touching an unstable bloodline thread threw you into Mara's body earlier today?” I asked.“I remember it perfectly,” Jordan replied.“Then move away from the bed.”“No.”“Jordan,” Killian said, “I agree with my father.”Jordan turned toward him. “Wonderful. The two of you finally agree on something, and it has to be this.”The oldest Anchor opened his eyes weakly and complained, “Could all of you stop arguing? You are making dying considerably less peaceful.”“You are not dying,” Jordan told him.The old man's mouth twitched as he said, “You have developed an unfortunate habit of telling ancient wolves what they are allowed to do.”“He does it to every
Jordan’s POV “We did it!” Joanna’s voice was still audible despite the loud thumping of the bass speakers that shook the window frames. Her hands moved slowly over Killian's chest and I just watched in shame and completely speechless. I didn't dare say a word of course, not today.After winning t
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
Killian's POV"Come up here Killian," Callum acknowledged from the top of the stairwell. "Just you."I looked at Jordan.Jordan looked at me and replied very quietly "don't.""I have to," I replied."He's separating you from us deliberately," Jordan replied. "The moment you go up there alone he con
Killian’s POV“What the fuck do you mean, ‘the other one’?” I growled, stepping forward so my body stayed between this stranger and Jordan. My arm was still locked tight around my mate’s waist, holding him up while Lorenzo kept a protective grip on his other side.The guy on the other side of the r







