تسجيل الدخولI went upstairs. Found the second door on the right. Knocked quietly. "Come in." Hope's voice. Muffled. Like she'd been crying. Fuck. I'd made her cry. Had devastated my mate before even realizing she was my mate. I opened the door. Hope was sitting on her bed, eyes red, looking—looking vulner
"I didn't want to hurt her feelings. Didn't want to—to make things awkward since we're friends and train together and—" I stopped. "I was being a coward. Should have been honest months ago instead of letting her build expectations." "Yes. You should have." No judgment in Dad's voice. Just observat
The Next Generation Caden pov I watched Hope Reed-Castellan leave with her family, and something in my chest twisted. She'd looked—gutted. Devastated. Like something had broken when we were talking. And I—I didn't understand why. We'd just been having normal conversation. Me and Emily planning
"Hope Reed-Castellan." Caden's voice. Was it my imagination or did it sound—different? Deeper? "You're avoiding something. What's wrong?" The way he said my name. The intensity in his gray eyes. The—the way he was looking at me like he could see through every excuse. Did he know? Did he feel the
The Next Generation Hope pov I stood with my family at the pack gathering, trying to focus on Alpha Marcus's speech about the anniversary of the Great Integration War. Twenty years. Twenty years since my parents' generation fought extremists who wanted to eliminate hybrid babies like me. Twent
"Months." I looked at Rose. At Hope sleeping peacefully despite violence that had erupted around her. "Rose, we might—we might be able to go home. Back to Crescent Moon. Back to our life. In months. Maybe weeks if Uncle Cas's hunts go well." "Home." She said it like prayer. "Nate, we can—we can re
"It's exactly what you did to us," I said, my voice carrying through the speaker system from the observation room. "You made us vulnerable. Made my daughter vulnerable. Now you get to choose: help fix the damage you caused, or face the consequences of your betrayal." "Emma?" Dr. Chen looked toward
My Cheating Mate Emma pov Dr. Sarah Chen sat in the interrogation room—a space normally used for rogue questioning—looking smaller than I'd ever seen her. Her hands were cuffed to the table, silver-lined to prevent any supernatural interference, though as a human she posed no physical threat.
My Cheating Mate Jeremy pov The morning came too quickly. I'd maybe slept two hours total, my mind racing through scenarios, contingencies, ways this could go wrong. Emma hadn't slept much better. I'd felt her wake multiple times, heard her check on Grace, felt the tension radiating from her b
"In exchange for what? Adding to my already massive debt to you?" "No. In exchange for Dr. Chen's cooperation in feeding false intelligence back to the hunters." His eyes gleamed. "Think about it. Right now, the hunters think their spy is still active. They'll be planning their next attack based o







