登入DANTE'S POVLeadership would be easier if enemies always wore their true faces, instead, they smiled. They lied, sat at your dinner table and sometimes they slept beside you for years.I stood at the window of the war room and watched the sun rise over Blackthorn territory, normally, the sight brought me peace, today it brought nothingWord had been brought to me that somewhere beyond those mountains, Lena had transformed into something I couldn't explain.My hands tightened behind my back, for years I had fought rival Alphas, traitors, rogue wolves, politicians, smugglers and even assassins. I understood those threats. But this? This was different.A knock interrupted my thoughts then Marcus entered without waiting for permission, that alone told me the situation was serious."We found another one." He said immediately, I turned. "Another what?"Marcus tossed a folder onto the table. "Another Kingshade informant."My jaw hardened. "Is he alive?""Barely."I opened the folder to see
JAX'S POVThe moment Lena screamed, every light in the estate exploded, it felt as if the entire estate had been hit by an earthquake."Lena!" I lunged toward her or at least toward where she had been standing.The room was empty, the window behind her had been blown outward, the cold night air rushed inside.The Blood Moon hung above the forest like an open wound. My wolf immediately surged forward in pure fear, I had never felt him react like that before.Not even in battle or during wars. Marcus burst into the room seconds later, "The alpha wants everyone to..." his voice trailed off. He stared at the destroyed bedroom, then the shattered glass and then the claw marks that was carved into the stone walls."Oh God." He muttered. I was already moving, I jumped through the broken window and shifted before I hit the ground.My bones snapped into place, my muscles stretched and fur erupted across my skin.The transformation hurt, but i welcomed it. I hit the forest at full speed. Th
LENA'S POVThree days before the Blood Moon, the nightmares started. Nightmares that felt like memories.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw fire, forest burning and dead wolves.I saw ancient stone ruins covered in blood and standing in the middle of it all was a woman with crimson eyes.She had my face, my hair and my eyes.The same woman from the six-hundred-year-old drawing.She never spoke a word, only watching me with those keen crimson eyes. The dreams left me exhausted and by the second day, I was barely sleeping, by the third, I was terrified.Because the voices in my head had become louder and clearer and more demanding.I was walking through the Blackthorn gardens when I heard one of them whisper directly into my ear.*"Awaken."*I spun around but nobody was there. My pulse hammered. The voice had sounded real and I was sure I wasn't imagining it. I pressed my palms against my temples, "Please stop."The voices didn't listen, they never did.*********The Blood Moon was a
RAVEN'S POV The man begging for his life was already dead, he just didn't know it yet. "Please," the spy whispered. "I told you everything." Blood dripped from his split lip onto the concrete floor.I sat across from him in silence, the underground room smelled of rust, sweat, and fear, mostly fear.The spy's heartbeat was so loud I could hear it over the hum of the generators.He was terrified, perfect. Fear made people honest. Unfortunately for him, honesty had arrived too late.I leaned forward slowly, The chains around his wrists rattled."You sold information to Blackthorn," It wasn't a question. The spy swallowed, his face went pale instantly. "I made a mistake."I almost laughed, of course you did. A mistake, that was what traitors always called it. They never called it greed or betrayal, it was always mistake they called it. "The convoy route," I continued. "The warehouse location. The names of my operatives."The man's breathing became uneven, "You already know everyth
LENA'S POVThe voices in my head had gotten worse, at first, they only came during blackouts.Now they came when I was awake, sometimes, while I was at breakfast or while I was training, or sometimes in the middle of a conversation.A distant voice would suddenly whisper something inside my head and disappear before I could understand it.Nobody else heard them, or even reacted to it, just me. That terrified me more than the voices themselves. I hadn't told Jax how bad it was becoming.He was already looking at me differently these days ever since the healer discovered my blood wasn't behaving like wolf blood.I didn't want him worrying more besides, I had enough problems. Callum Reyes was publicly claiming me and the missing pages from my mother's letter.Especially the Hunter, I hadn't seen him since the night he captured me.Part of me hoped I never would again, the other part knew that was a lie.Because despite everything, he seemed to know more about me than anyone else, more
JAX'S POVI couldn't sleep, I got to find out that Mother had been improsoned, it was better than executing her for the crimes she has committed.Still every time I closed my eyes, I saw my mother's face through the bars of that underground cell with a smile on her face. The smile bothered me more than her betrayal, a guilty person should be afraid, a traitor that was seemingly facing execution should be desperate. Mother was neither, she looked like someone who had finally stopped carrying a burden.And then there were her words that I wasn't her only child. I had spent three days trying to convince myself she was lying, three days failing.The thought had infected everything. My training, patrols, even my conversations with Lena. I couldn't focus on anything else, if my mother had another child, If she had hidden him all these years, then where was he?And why reveal him now?I was alone inside the archive room, there was dust on every shelf and most of the records dated back d







