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Chapter Eighteen – “When the Alpha Wakes.”
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Moonbound Heart Saga: Shadowed Veil (Book Two) Chapter Twenty-One – “Bloodmoon’s Teeth.”
There are moments that divide a pack’s history into before and after.Silverveil had a few.The night Baylee crossed the border.The fall of Jade.The breaking of Bloodmoon in Collin’s chest.And now, the birth of Charlotte Hale.This wasn’t just “a pup was born.” Packs had pups all the time. Life went on.No.This was the night Silverveil drew a line that would not move.The night Collin Hale stood at his border with blood still under his nails from delivering his daughter and told the world: mine.The night something not-wolf answered from the trees and said: we’ll take her anyway.And the night the Moon itself seemed to wake in a newborn’s eyes.—Scene 1: The BorderThe south border of Silverveil was not grand.It wasn’t a stone wall or a trench moat or some Old World thing with spikes.It was a line of pines, scarred and tall, the ground worn where patrols ran so often a low trail had formed. The air hummed with ward-scent—sage, salt, Collin’s dominance, Liam’s steadiness, Melody
Moonbound Heart Saga: Shadowed Veil (Book Two) Chapter Twenty – “Blood Born.”
Wolves in labor stories are always lies.They always start soft. They always go like, “It was quiet. Candles. Steam. Gentle hands. Everyone spoke in whispers.”That is not what happened when Baylee Vale went into labor.What happened when Baylee Vale went into labor was that Silverveil went on war-footing.—Within three minutes of her first contraction:Liam had doubled border patrol.Ash Ridge scouts had already moved to the southern ridge unasked.Frostfang scent markers had appeared at the east approach like ghost teeth.Heather had three knives on her body and two more hidden in her braid.Zane had stationed himself outside the house and bared his teeth at anyone who so much as breathed too close.Jessica had boiled water because that’s what you’re supposed to do, even though no one knew why, and then boiled more just in case the first batch wasn’t “boiled enough.”Jimmy had taken up pacing like a caged bear.Melissa had braided her hair back, rolled up her sleeves, and taken her
Moonbound Heart Saga: Shadowed Veil (Book Two) Chapter Nineteen – “The Hunt That Follows.”
Three weeks later, the bruises had faded.The anger hadn’t.Silverveil had changed.You could feel it the second you stepped past the wardline. The air felt thicker, like it held a low, constant hum. Patrol rotations doubled. No one ran the border alone anymore. Ash Ridge sent two wolves to stay on loan “for a while.” Frostfang started “visiting” in a way that just happened to put scouts in Ironclaw’s path. Hallowmere sent nothing but word, but that word traveled fast and bloody: Ironclaw drugged a Luna and kidnapped an elder in front of witnesses. That story had teeth.Ironclaw wasn’t the same, either.No one had seen Gunner in person since Hollow Creek.His wolves were still sniffing around the south woods, but their posture had changed. Less swagger. Less “we can do what we want.” More twitch.Because Silverveil hadn’t hit back—yet—but everyone felt it coming. Like a storm. Like a bow pulled to full draw and not loosed.And at the center of that bow: Baylee Vale.—Baylee shifted s
Moonbound Heart Saga: Shadowed Veil (Book Two) Chapter Eighteen – “When the Alpha Wakes.”
Morning broke late over Silverveil.It wasn’t the sunrise that woke the pack—it was the scent.The air in the compound was heavy, electric, alive with the sharp tang of ozone and something older—something wild. Every wolf in Silverveil felt it in their marrow. The moment Collin’s bond flared through the pack link like a struck bell, heads snapped up. Sleepers stirred. Warriors dropped what they were doing. Somewhere, a mother gasped and clutched her child close without knowing why.Their Alpha was still under—but the air said not for long.---Scene 1: The ReturnThe pack gates groaned open before Liam could even shout for them. The courtyard was a blur—wolves rushing to meet the scent of blood and mud and exhaustion. Jessica was the first to appear, her hair undone, her eyes wild. She took in the sight of her daughter-in-law—limping, bruised, Heather and Zane at her sides—and the sound she made wasn’t human.“Baylee,” she breathed, and then she was running.Baylee didn’t get a word o
Moonbound Heart Saga: Shadowed Veil (Book Two) Chapter Seventeen – “Teeth in the Water.”
For half a breath, Hollow Creek held.Everyone was still calculating.Then Ironclaw did the dumbest thing possible.They tried to pull Baylee back.It wasn’t even subtle.Gunner was still in the mud, fury burning off him in waves, Zane’s forearm jammed under his throat. He shouldn’t have had enough air to order anybody to do anything.But old habits die hard, and Ironclaw had followed that voice for years.“TAKE HER,” he snarled, shredding his throat on the order.Three of his wolves moved at the same time.Silverveil had been holding the moment together with thread and stare-down.That thread snapped.Everything that came next happened at once.—Heather was closer than anyone. She’d already cut the rope at Baylee’s wrists. She had one knee in the wagon, both hands down at Baylee’s ankle rope, sawing through tough hemp with a serrated hunting blade.The instant Ironclaw lunged, she moved.Heather wasn’t the biggest or strongest wolf in Silverveil. She wasn’t even the fastest.But she
Moonbound Heart Saga: Shadowed Veil (Book Two) Chapter Sixteen – “Council at Hollow Creek.”
Dawn at Hollow Creek tasted like metal.The creek itself wasn’t pretty. People liked to talk about neutral grounds like moonlit glades and sacred stone rings and “place of peace.” Hollow Creek wasn’t that.It was a shallow cut in the land where water slid slow over black rock. Frost-killed scrub hugged the banks. Tree roots jutted out like ribs. Mist crouched low to the ground and didn’t rise, like it didn’t trust the air.The land felt stripped. Claimed and unclaimed at the same time. A place everyone said belonged to no one and everyone, which in wolf terms meant “no one will admit to owning the mess that’s about to happen here.”By the time the first pink line touched the horizon, four packs were already on site.Frostfang clustered loose on the far bank — lean, pale-eyed, scar-fetchers, quiet and attentive, their Alpha lounging like a watchful cat on a half-sunken log with her chin on her fist. She had a scar like frostbite across her throat and absolutely no patience for stupidit
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