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
I found him in human form, bleeding from multiple wounds, three mercenaries circling him like sharks. He'd shifted back—never a good sign. Meant he was too injured to maintain wolf form. Rage exploded through me. My wolf surged forward with protective fury. These bastards had hurt my father. My Al
My Cheating Mate Jeremy pov I was pacing the war room at 2 AM, staring at troop deployments that still didn't quite work, when the idea hit me like lightning. Vampires. We had vampire allies. Not close allies—more like an uneasy treaty signed thirty years ago after a territorial dispute was r
"Emma? Everything okay?" "My dad told me. About the vampires." Silence. Then: "I can explain—" "I don't want explanations. I want to know if you've lost your mind." The words came out sharper than I intended, fear manifesting as anger. "Jeremy, you owe a vampire lord a personal favor? Do you h
"Have they? Or are you just afraid of what it says about you if you hand her over?" A pause. "Jeremy, I've done my research. I know about the affair. Know about your plan to use her as a broodmare. Know you only started caring about her after she nearly died. That's not love. That's guilt." "You d







