LOGINHe rejected me in front of the entire pack and told me I was not enough to be his Luna. I did not beg. I did not cry where anyone could see me. I signed the papers he put in front of me and I walked out of that pack house with nothing except the secret I had been keeping for three weeks. I was carrying his child. Three years later I have a life he knows nothing about, a daughter who has his eyes and his stubbornness and absolutely no idea who her father is, and a position in a rival pack that has made me someone people think twice before crossing. But then he shows up. Not as the Alpha who threw me away but as a man who has lost everything, his memories, his pack, his wealth, and is standing at my door with no idea that the last time we were in the same room he destroyed me completely. He does not remember rejecting me but I remember every word. The question is not whether I still feel something when he looks at me. The question is whether the man standing in front of me now is the same man who did what he did, or someone different wearing the same face. And whether it matters either way.
View MoreSerena's POVThe silence in the Great Hall did not break immediately. It lingered like frost in the high rafters, heavy and fragile, as twenty Ashveil guards watched six elite Blackthorn knights kneeling upon the cold stone floor.Commander Vane remained on one knee before Kael, his head lowered so deeply that the silver links of his collar touched the breastplate of his armor."Alpha Kael," Vane spoke again, his voice thick with gravel and remorse. "My life is yours. The vanguard at the outer pass stands under my orders, but my orders belong only to the true heir of the Blackthorn seat. We did not know. By the blood of the ancestors, we had no knowledge of what Mara did."Kael looked down at the seasoned warrior. There was no arrogance in his posture, only that innate, immovable gravity that defined a born leader. Even stripped of four years of memories, the authority in his blood was absolute."Stand, Vane," Kael said calmly. "And tell your men to rise."Vane stood first, stiff and
Serena's POVThe copper smell of wolf blood filled the small front room of my cottage.I pressed the thick linen cloths harder against Lysa's side, feeling the wet heat soaking through the fabric and coating my fingers. Lysa let out a ragged, whistling breath through clamped teeth, her knuckles turning bone white where she gripped the wooden arms of the chair."Keep pressure on it," I ordered softly, my voice calm even as adrenaline burned cold in my veins. "Do not try to speak yet.""I am fine," Lysa gasped, though her skin was gray under the yellow lantern light. "The blade was coated with something bitter. Silver dust or wolfsbane residue. It is slowing the clot."I reached for the small bottle of powdered hemlock root and clean water on the sideboard, quickly mixing a neutralizing paste. Applying it directly to the open slash, I watched the dark, sluggish blood bubble faintly before the edges of the torn muscle began to pull together under her natural healing response."Bane did n
Serena's POVThat night, the cottage was cold.I built a small fire in the stone hearth, watching the orange flames crackle and lick against the dark wood. Aria was fast asleep in her room, her small stuffed wolf tucked tightly under her chin.Lysa sat at the kitchen table, checking the straps on her dark leather travel boots."Are you sure about this contact, Serena?" Lysa asked quietly, tightening a buckle. "Bane was loyal to Kael's father, but three years is a long time. People change when Elder Mara starts handing out council silver.""Bane hates Mara," I assured her, handing Lysa a sealed parchment containing our coded meeting signals. "She executed his brother for minor treason two winters ago. He has been waiting for an opportunity to pull her down. Tell him I need the original forge dispatch ledger for the incendiary pitch."Lysa tucked the parchment into her tunic lining, looking up at me with dark, protective concern. "And what will you do while I'm at the border pass? Spend
Serena's POVThe morning air outside the strategy wing carried the damp, earthy scent of crushed pine and pine needles. The fog had thinned slightly, exposing the dark jagged ridges of the eastern mountains that separated Ashveil territory from the untamed neutral borderlands.I sat at my desk, staring at a newly opened map of the eastern border road.Beside the map lay three separate scout logs from the night Kael was brought in. Lance had done an admirable job recording the physical markers, but Lance was a military commander, not an intelligence analyst. He looked for tracks, blood spatter, and perimeter breaches. He did not look for what was missing.A quiet knock sounded on the heavy frame of the door, and Lance stepped into the office, carrying a leather dispatch pouch."You requested the raw reconnaissance reports from the eastern quadrant, Miss Voss," Lance said, placing the pouch on the corner of my desk. His posture was rigid, his expression carrying the disciplined neutrali


















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