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Author: Quinn Ryts
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But then I pushed the thought aside. They’d said this was my room, and no one had come to stop me yet.

I got dressed—light clothes, soft fabric, comfortable and non-restricting. Something I could move in. Something I could breathe in.

Then came the question again: What now?

I glanced at the window. The sun was sinking lower, casting golden streaks across the floorboards. I wasn’t tired enough to sleep, and the room suddenly felt too small.

So I left.

Down the stairs. Past the silent hallway. Through the large, arched front doors that creaked open like they were letting secrets out.

The air outside hit different. Cooler, clearer. Like it hadn’t been suffocating me all day.

I walked. No real direction, no destination. Just moved my legs and followed the pull of instinct. It took me behind the Pack house, where the landscape shifted from structure to wilderness. But then—unexpectedly—the trees opened into something else entirely.

A garden.

Not just flowers thrown into soil. No—this was d
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  • Marked By Fate   62

    He leaned back, rubbing a hand over his mouth.“Too much coincidence. Too much packed into one moment. Someone or something triggered it all.”“Did the rogues say anything?” I asked.Darius nodded grimly. “That day, when I questioned one of the dying ones, he said something that didn’t make sense at the time. He said, ‘The blood of the white wolf is all the master needs. And when he gets it, your lands will turn to forgotten memories.’”My blood turned to ice.“What the hell does that mean?” I whispered, barely able to form the words.He looked at me again. “You said you never met your mother.”“Not really,” I replied. “My father said I was seven when she died. But now? I’m not sure. I don’t remember her face. I don’t remember anything that makes sense. No portraits. No paintings. Nothing.”“That’s not normal,” he said softly.“No, it’s not,” I agreed. “Someone wiped my memories. They erased her.”He looked like he wanted to argue but couldn’t.“Selene,” he said, leaning closer, “I ne

  • Marked By Fate   61

    He’d been in the dream, too. Watching from just outside the circle, waiting for the moment to throw one of the robed figures aside—just enough to break the grip they had on me.I remembered it. That flash of light. That blur of movement.It was him.Even in my dream, even in my breakdown—he was there.Holding me.Shielding me.I gasped awake.The first thing I felt was the cold floor under my back.The second was Darius’s arms around me, bare skin against mine, chest to chest, his body curled around mine like a shield.I wasn’t in my bed.I wasn’t clothed.I was back in my room, naked, drenched in sweat, shivering like the last bit of whatever they’d done to me still clung to my skin.And he was holding me.Protectively.Gently.Someone entered the room. I didn’t see them, but I heard the rush of footsteps. A blanket draped over me a second later, tucking around my sides.“She’s awake,” a voice said softly.“Everyone out,” Darius said. His voice wasn’t loud, but it didn’t need to be.

  • Marked By Fate   60

    It started as a whisper. Then everything shifted.Suddenly, I wasn’t in my bed anymore.I wasn’t in Black Oak.I was somewhere else.The ground beneath me was cold. My feet were bare. The sky above was pitch black and too close. And around me—a ring of cloaked figures.Their faces were hidden. Their heads bowed. Their mouths moved in eerie synchronicity, chanting in an ancient language that echoed through the space like wind through a crypt.I didn’t know the language.But I understood every word.They were binding her.They were trying to put Luna to sleep.My wolf was snarling inside me, howling in protest, clawing at the walls of whatever spell they were wrapping around her.But she was fading.I could feel it. Every second that passed, she grew weaker. Like they were siphoning her strength, twisting it back on itself.I tried to call out. Tried to move. Nothing worked. My voice caught in my throat. My limbs wouldn’t respond.I reached for Nora—but she wasn’t there.Gone. Erased. L

  • Marked By Fate   59

    And just when we thought we’d seen the full wave—they poured out from the forest like black water spilling from a cracked dam.“Darius,” I said, but I didn’t need to.He was already stepping forward.I didn’t shift into Luna. Not this time. I didn’t need to.I gave Nora control.It was like flipping a switch. Cold fire slid through my blood as I fell back and Nora rose, eyes glowing silver, claws already forming.She didn’t hesitate.Darius stayed in human form too—barefoot, bare-chested, blood-thirsty.We moved as one, tearing through the first wave of rogues like they were paper.Claws slashed. Bones cracked. Screams filled the air. I lost count of how many I dropped, how many I shredded, how many Nora flung through trees like they weighed nothing.Nora was brutal and fast, but controlled. Focused.I stayed close to Darius. We never strayed more than a few steps apart. He didn’t say anything to me, not even once, but his eyes never stopped tracking mine in flashes between kills.Tim

  • Marked By Fate   58

    “There were attacks,” he said. “Rogues. Endless waves of them. We lost many. I—” He swallowed. “I don’t know if they were among the ones killed.”So that was it.He didn’t know.Or didn’t want to say.Either way, his voice cracked just slightly when he admitted it—and that told me enough.He was ashamed. Not just because he failed them. But because he knew he was saying it to me.My mind started racing again.Could he be telling the truth?Could they really be gone?No.I shook the thought off, refusing to even entertain it. I’d feel it. Especially if something happened to Rhea. We were sisters, and while we didn’t share a mate bond, we were bound by blood. By something deeper. I’d feel it if she was gone.I had to believe that.Now is not the time to fight ourselves,” Draco said suddenly, dragging his gaze between me and Darius but never meeting Darius’s eyes. Pathetic. “Now is the time to come together. To protect what’s left of our kind.”My lips curled in disgust.“What meaning do

  • Marked By Fate   57

    It stood at the edge of the woods, tucked between tall trees, untouched. Untouched in the literal sense—no damage, no signs of recent life. But untouched in the other way too.Like a memory sealed in a box and shoved to the back of the mind.The windows were dusty. The porch creaked under my weight. I didn’t bother knocking. I just shoved the door open and walked in.It looked exactly the same.I stood there in the doorway for a long time. Breathing in the stillness. Letting the dust and silence wrap around me like a second skin.Nothing had changed.And yet, everything had.I walked deeper inside, slow. Each step heavier than the last. I turned into the living room and looked around like I was waiting to hear someone call my name.But no one came.My legs gave out before I could stop them, and I sank to the floor.I curled my knees up and rested my head against the edge of the couch, eyes burning but refusing to cry.Not here. Not again.But the ache in my chest didn’t care what I wa

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