LOGIN"Inka, don't move yet. Your body just went through hell," Elder Thaddeus's voice sounded panicked as I forced my eyes open.I ignored the stabbing pain in my stomach. The first thing I looked for was my chest. There, wrapped in a clean towel, was a tiny baby girl sleeping peacefully. Her skin still carried faint traces of pure golden glow from my Lunar Healer blood. Looking at her calm little face, all my fear disappeared.Through the triple bond flowing in my blood, I could sense what was happening right outside the medical room door. I could feel Hunter's pain from the silver burns, the leftover poison making Zane's body shake, and Seth's ragged breathing from burning through his Alpha energy.They were out there dying, standing as a living barricade to protect me and our child."Please watch her for a second, Elder," I whispered, carefully handing our baby over to Thaddeus."Where are you going? Miranda and the Zunter troops are out there!""My men are out there," I said, my voice
The steel bunker doors groaned under the impact of another heavy blast. The screech of bending metal echoed down the stone corridor, vibrating straight through the soles of my boots."They brought a ramming device," Zane said. His voice was still rough from the silver poisoning, but his eyes were sharp. He carefully handed the quiet, gold-dusted baby back to Thaddeus, who was finally finishing up with a stable, though unconscious, Inka."They're not getting in," Hunter rumbled. He forced himself to his feet, using the wall for support. His burned forearms were still raw from the silver fire, but the sight of Zane breathing and Inka alive had given him his second wind. "Seth, secure the back. Zane, you're with me at the gate.""Hunter, you can barely stand," I said, checking the tactical knives at my belt. My own claws were blunt, my energy tank low, but the adrenaline was pumping hard enough to keep the exhaustion at bay."I'll stand long enough to rip their heads off," Hunter snapped
SETH The sound that broke the chaotic noise of the courtyard didn't sound like a normal newborn. It was a sharp, piercing cry, but it carried a strange, heavy vibration that rippled right through the pack link.The moment the baby was born, the crushing pressure in my chest snapped. The feedback loop closed.Inka’s eyes rolled back, her golden light vanishing as her body completely shut down from exhaustion. She fell back against the stone, unconscious. Next to her, Hunter slumped forward, his hands still locked with hers, his breathing ragged and hollow. He had given her every single drop of his Alpha energy, leaving his own tank completely bone-dry."I've got the baby," Elder Thaddeus breathed, his hands covered in glowing gold fluid as he quickly cut the cord. "She’s alive. A baby girl. But Inka is hemorrhaging. I need to stabilize her right now."I couldn't even process the fact that we had a daughter. My eyes were fixed on Zane.He was convulsing on the floor. The dark, web-like
“Hunter, no! The silver—!” Seth’s voice screamed in my head through the pack link. I didn't care. A sound tore from my throat that didn't sound human, or even like a normal wolf. It was a guttural, demonic roar that shook the very air in the courtyard. My vision bled completely red. The bones in my face, jaw, and limbs cracked and elongated as my Alpha wolf forced a partial shift, my claws ripping through my tactical gloves and my teeth sharpening into lethal fangs. I didn't run. I launched myself forward, leaping directly into the wall of silver-fire incendiary grenades Miranda’s operatives had thrown to cut us off. White-hot agony melted the flesh on my forearms and chest as the silver-laced flames bit deep into my skin. My wolf screamed in pain, but the rage was a thousand times louder. I tore through the wall of fire, trailing smoke and burning fur, a literal monster born of ash and fury. The operative holding the weapon over Zane barely had time to look up before I hit him
ZANE My mind has always worked in grids, numbers, and probabilities. It’s how I survive. It’s how I keep my brothers from tearing themselves apart or running headfirst into traps. But looking at the glowing tactical display in the sanctuary’s command room, the numbers were screaming one undeniable fact. We were completely screwed. "The outer cloaking grid didn't just fail," I said, my voice dead flat as I traced the red fracture lines blinking across the digital map. "They used localized electromagnetic pulses layered with silver-disruptor frequencies. They knew exactly what frequency our barrier ran on." "Miranda," Hunter growled, his fists slamming into the wooden table hard enough to split the grain. His Alpha scent was completely toxic right now—pure, unadulterated rage mixed with the terrifying scent of a mate in jeopardy. "She didn't just give them our coordinates. She gave them the blueprints to our entire defense system." "The inner shield is holding, but barely," Elder
INKA I thought the hardest part of this mess was over when we told Alpha Graham to let the Council vote go. I thought that by refusing to play Miranda’s game, we had bought ourselves time. I was wrong. You can outsmart a political enemy, but you can’t negotiate with the biology of a triple-bond supernatural pregnancy. It was just past two in the morning, and the sanctuary was dead quiet. Beside me, Hunter was dead to the world, one heavy Alpha arm draped protectively over my waist. Seth and Zane were asleep on the floor on mattresses they’d dragged in, refusing to be more than a few feet away from me since the call with their father. I stared at the ceiling, my breathing shallow. I held my hands up in the dark. The faint, golden glow of my Lunar Healer blood was flickering against my skin like a dying lightbulb. I felt entirely hollowed out. Every time the baby moved now, it didn’t feel like a normal kick. It felt like a literal siphon, a vacuum pulling directly from my core, dri
HUNTER “Seventy-two hours, Hunter. Miranda moved up the timeline. The Council vote got pushed forward.” His voice broke through the distortion and interference, but his panic came through crystal clear. “You guys need to be there to contest it. If Inka doesn’t show up, the Council is going to
I was stacking firewood when Inka found me.Morning after talking with Zane. I could feel through the bond that something had shifted, but I wasn't expecting her to actually come find me."Hey," she said.I set down the branch I was holding. "Hey.""I owe you an apology," Inka said. "For pushing yo
ZANE'S POVI was organizing strategy maps in the library when I realized I'd been manipulating Inka for weeks.Not intentionally. But the data was there if I bothered to analyze it honestly.The library sessions where I "happened" to be studying when she came in. The strategic conversations where I
SETH'S POV I was teaching the children about pack structure when I realized I hadn't seen Inka in two days. Not properly. Not the way you see someone you're bonded to. I'd glimpsed her training with Ruth. I'd heard her in conversations with Zane about strategy. I'd felt her presence through th







