เข้าสู่ระบบJORDAN'S POV“What do you mean he may never have been imprisoned by the hardliners?” I asked.Gideon looked at me, but his silence only made the memories crowd my head faster. I remembered the underground chamber, the terrible loneliness I had felt the moment I reached the oldest Anchor and the suppression that had eaten through years of his life. I remembered the way his bloodline reacted to mine before any of us understood why. None of it had felt false.“Explain before Jordan decides releasing him was somehow his fault,” Killian said as he moved closer to me.“I wasn't going to do that,” I replied.“You were already doing it with your face,” Killian told me.Gideon rubbed a hand over his mouth before saying, “I don't know if the oldest Anchor is working with Silas now. I am saying the story of his imprisonment was never as simple as we believed.”Lorenzo frowned and asked, “How complicated can imprisonment be?”“Years before Jordan was born, the oldest Anchor entered the undergroun
LORENZO'S POVJordan and Mara collapsed at the exact same moment.I caught Jordan before his head struck the floor, while Reef lunged across the room and caught Mara awkwardly around the shoulders. Killian was beside me almost immediately, dropping to his knees as I lowered Jordan carefully.“Jordan?” Killian called as he touched his face. “Jordan, open your eyes.”“He's breathing,” I said, pressing two fingers against Jordan's neck. “His heartbeat is steady.”“So is Mara's,” Reef said from across the room.Vale moved between us and ordered, “Everyone stop touching them.”Killian slowly looked up. “I suggest you choose your next words carefully.”“The Mirror connection has activated,” Vale explained. “I have never seen it behave this way.”I looked at Jordan's unconscious face and asked, “Is he inside the convergence?”“Yes,” Vale replied. “But Mara's body is displaying Jordan's exact bloodline pattern.”Killian's eyes flashed as he said, “Use words normal people understand.”Eli knel
JORDAN'S POV“How do we stop it?” I asked.Vale looked up from Mara's blood sample and replied, “The obvious solution is separation. Mara needs to leave the territory and travel far enough that your bloodline can no longer reach hers.”“Yes,” Killian said before Vale had even finished speaking.“I agree,” Mara added.“No,” I replied.Three people turned toward me at once, and Lorenzo sighed before asking, “Can you explain before this becomes another argument?”“Sending Mara away is exactly what Silas expects us to do,” I said. “He told us about the Mirror because he knew we would panic the moment we found her.”Mara folded her arms and replied, “I can protect myself.”“Killian thought the same thing before he woke up strapped to a chair,” I reminded her.Killian frowned and complained, “My kidnapping needs to stop becoming an example in every argument.”“It is an excellent example of bad decision-making,” Lorenzo told him.Killian looked at his father and asked, “Have you forgotten yo
MARA'S POVI laughed when Reef said my name. It was not because anything was funny. I simply could not think of a better reaction to being told that my body had apparently spent months preparing to replace Jordan after his death.Nobody laughed with me.Jordan remained seated at the strategy table with the healer report in front of him, Killian stood behind his chair, and Lorenzo kept looking between Vale and me as though one of us might suddenly admit this was another trick.“Check again,” I told Reef.“I already checked three times,” Reef replied. “The dates match Jordan's convergence events almost perfectly.”I looked at the report and asked, “Then explain why Silas sent me directly into the packhouse. I worked for the hardliners for months. If he knew I was the Mirror, why place me beside Jordan?”“He may not have known,” Vale answered. “Mirror bloodlines were hidden even from the old councils. Identifying one before activation was nearly impossible.”I turned toward him. “Did you
KILLIAN'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 My eyes were reddened and slowly darkening as the loud growls were just few inches away from me mid air when I felt a tight grip pull me out of their way and the resounding echoes and vibrations as they thudded against the ground and sprayed me and the others mud and it shook my soul.
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 gap between us was almost closed, just a tiny space that even an insect wouldn't fit and just then, a sharp sound shot through the air and destroyed the moment, or maybe, saved me I guess.The door flung open and Sienna, the housekeeper was just a few seconds from flipping the cur
Jordan's POV Shame washed over me as I laid on the floor, unable to raise my head. The pain of being beaten and thrown in the mud and the humiliation from their mockery was nothing close to what I felt now.His presence was suffocating, or maybe, I had forgotten how to breathe. It wasn't just abou







