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Author: Bella Fyre
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140

(Tyler’s POV)

The name left Kate’s lips, and it was like the room shrank. Camerin swore again under his breath, pacing a tight line across the war room while I kept my gaze fixed on the map. Not the markers. Not the borders. Just the space in between. If one traitor could slip so close, how many more had we overlooked?

Kate’s hand was still beneath mine, her pulse quick and sharp. She had done her part. More than her part. Now it was up to me and Camerin.

“He can’t know we suspect him,” I said, my voice low, even though the room was empty but for us. “If he thinks we’re onto him, he’ll either bolt or act before we’re ready.”

Camerin nodded once, still pacing. “We can’t just drag him out in front of the others. Word will spread too fast, and we’ll have panic. Or worse others still hidden might try to cover their tracks.”

“Then we take him quietly,” I said. “Patrol rotation. He goes out tonight. We make sure it’s with our men, no chance of him slipping through. Once he’s outsi
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    141 (Kathryn’s POV) I wasn’t looking for anything. Honestly, I just wanted to thank Camerin. He’d been running himself ragged, chasing leads, holding the line so Tyler didn’t burn himself out completely. When I spotted him in the hall, I caught his arm on instinct, meaning only to stop him for a second. The moment my skin brushed his, the vision slammed into me. Stone walls. The stench of blood and ash. A body wrapped in canvas on a cellar floor, lifeless. Tyler standing over it, fists clenched, fury in every line of his body. Camerin beside him, voice grim: “They’ll all be marked, Tyler. Any spy we catch will end the same way.” I gasped, jerking my hand back. The vision faded, leaving my heart pounding in my chest. Camerin’s face drained of color he knew what I’d seen. “You didn’t tell me,” I whispered, anger and betrayal tangling in my throat. “You and Tyler, you kept this from me.” “Kate…” he started, but I cut him off. “You let me walk through the ranks, touching everyone,

  • Lunar Lake   140

    140 (Tyler’s POV) The name left Kate’s lips, and it was like the room shrank. Camerin swore again under his breath, pacing a tight line across the war room while I kept my gaze fixed on the map. Not the markers. Not the borders. Just the space in between. If one traitor could slip so close, how many more had we overlooked? Kate’s hand was still beneath mine, her pulse quick and sharp. She had done her part. More than her part. Now it was up to me and Camerin. “He can’t know we suspect him,” I said, my voice low, even though the room was empty but for us. “If he thinks we’re onto him, he’ll either bolt or act before we’re ready.” Camerin nodded once, still pacing. “We can’t just drag him out in front of the others. Word will spread too fast, and we’ll have panic. Or worse others still hidden might try to cover their tracks.” “Then we take him quietly,” I said. “Patrol rotation. He goes out tonight. We make sure it’s with our men, no chance of him slipping through. Once he’s outsi

  • Lunar Lake   139

    139 (Kathryn’s POV) The silence of the packhouse pressed in heavier than the forest outside. I lay curled on our bed, staring at the ceiling, unable to close my eyes. Every time I did, the visions came back of the faces of warriors, strangers and friends alike, their hopes, their griefs, their private wounds. None of it mine, yet all of it clinging to me. My stomach twisted. Not morning sickness this time, but something sharper, deeper. I couldn’t keep it in anymore. My chest heaved, and suddenly I was sitting up, gasping, shaking. “I can’t do this,” I whispered, too harsh in the stillness. My voice cracked. “Tyler, I can’t. I can’t keep seeing all of them. I can’t carry this and keep pretending I’m fine.” The lamp clicked on. Tyler was beside me instantly, his hand on my back, steady, grounding. His eyes, gold flickering faintly in the low light, searched for me like he could see every raw edge I was trying to hide. “Kate…” His voice was rough, low. “You don’t have to carry it

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    138 (Kathryn’s POV) The fire in the hearth was burning low, shadows stretching across the walls of our room. I had been sitting cross-legged on the rug, stroking Cali as she purred in my lap, trying to clear the image of Darren’s execution from my head. The sound of bone snapping wouldn’t leave me. Tyler came in quietly, but the weight he carried filled the space before he spoke. He closed the door behind him, then leaned against it like he was bracing himself. I looked up. “You’ve been with Camerin.” He nodded once. “We’ve been… planning.” That pause was enough. My stomach dropped. “Planning what?” He came closer, crouching in front of me, his golden eyes searching mine. “Kate, Jaxson’s still inside our walls. Not in person but through his spies. We found two. That means there are more. And we can’t afford to miss them.” I stroked Cali harder, trying to keep my hands steady. “So what does this have to do with me?” His jaw flexed. For a moment, I thought he might try to softe

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    137 (Tyler’s POV) Camerin moved fast once Kate named him. The third wolf in line Darren hadn’t even made it halfway through his patrol sweep before Camerin’s warriors intercepted him. By the time I arrived at the holding cells beneath the packhouse, Darren was already chained, his wrists raw from struggling against the silver cuffs. His eyes snapped to me the second I walked in, full of a defiance that didn’t match the sweat running down his temple. Kate trailed behind me, silent. I didn’t want her here, but she insisted. If she could see the visions, she said, she could see the truth when he spoke. I wasn’t sure if I hated or admired her resolve more. “Alpha.” Darren spat the word like a curse. “You’ve already decided I’m guilty. What’s the point?” I stepped close, letting Goliath rise just enough for my eyes to burn gold. His body jolted against the restraints, the wolf inside him cowering even if he refused to. “The point,” I said, voice low and deliberate, “is whether you wa

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    136 (Tyler’s POV) Camerin shut the door behind us with a click, leaving the room cloaked in the heavy silence of secrecy. The table between us was scarred from years of use, maps spread across it, lines marking borders, arrows noting patrols. But right now, it wasn’t the land I was studying, it was the faces of my wolves. Ronan had been one of ours. Trusted. And he’d sold us out. Camerin leaned forward, arms braced on the table. “One down. But he wasn’t lying. There’s more. You know it. I know it. Hell, Jaxson probably made sure every piece of our structure has a crack.” I rubbed a hand down my face. “And the bastard always knows where we are, how we’re moving. He’s been feeding off us like a parasite. That ends now.” “Kate can help,” Camerin said. His tone was cautious, but there was no mistaking the respect in his eyes. “Her visions don’t lie. If she touches the right wolf, she’ll see what side they’re on.” I stiffened at that. “I won’t turn her into an executioner.” “I’m not

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