تسجيل الدخولTalia’s POV"I'm here to deliver a message from the Rogue King," Morgana said. She smoothed her robe and barely looked at the armed warriors, acting like they were just fence posts. "Kargon is being merciful enough to offer you a chance."“Stop wasting our time, witch, and tell us what you want,” I snapped.She looked at me, and all I saw in her eyes was amusement.I watched her face, hoping for any sign she was bluffing, but her calm, unsettling smile never changed. Morgana looked like she could wait all night for us to give in. "So impatient," Morgana taunted. "Kargon is offering you the chance to kneel."My wolf bristled inside me. Even thinking about kneeling to a rogue felt like an insult.“No,” I growled. “No way in hell we would do that.”“Little girl, I wasn’t speaking to you. You’re just a little princess. The Alpha King makes decisions, or has that changed?”I bit my tongue to keep from shouting back at her. “You watch your tone when speaking with my sister, witch,” Solon wa
Talia’s POVLeslie went from surprised to angry, remembering every failed batch and sleepless night that always ended the same way. Solon kept his face unreadable. Nolan stared at Camilla, just as stunned as the rest of us.Now I understood why Jason had been so smug from the start. There was never a way to save my father without killing the Rogue King. Realizing this, I almost wished I hadn’t killed him so quickly.“Are you certain?” Solon asked.“Yes,” Camilla replied. “Morgana and I were close before her betrayal. This is all her doing.”“Why didn’t you stop her when you had the chance?” Solon asked.“I would have if I could,” Camilla said with a sigh.“None of this makes sense. Witches and wolves don’t get along. How could she have gotten close enough to get the Rogue King’s blood?” Leslie asked.“Years ago, Morgana was training to become the leader of the coven. With her new position, she had access to all our resources. She used them in secret to study the dark arts. When I foun
Talia’s POVWe reached Silverfang by evening and waited in my father’s office, which now belonged to Solon. The room hadn’t changed, but after everything, it felt completely different. I could almost picture my father there, surveying us with a quiet authority that had always made me feel safe. Being here without him made me miss him even more. I felt more like an outsider now than I ever did before.“Never would I have thought I would be deep in the Alpha King’s territory, let alone his office,” Camilla commented, bringing me out of my thoughts as she removed the glamour on her to reveal her true form. Before we arrived, she decided to hide her appearance to avoid alarming anyone.“There is nothing to fear. Solon is very reasonable,” I reassured her.Camilla smiled and said, “I do not fear, child. I just find the irony of the situation entertaining.”Solon came in with Leslie following close behind. They both froze when they noticed the third person with Nolan and me. Their eyes land
Talia’s POV“I’m sorry,” Dalila muttered. “She wanted to know, and I thought…”She broke off as Camilla kept glaring at her. Hattie stood, put a hand on Dalila’s shoulder, and led her toward the kitchens, leaving me alone with the old woman and a half-filled plate.“Please don’t be upset with her,” I said. “I am the one who asked.”“I’m not angry with her, but she needs to learn to control her emotions,” Camilla said with a sigh. “She means well. She loved them too, the ones we lost. Dalila mourns by getting angry.”“Then, was she overreacting?” I asked. “Did Morgana really kill…”“What she told you is true,” Camilla said, cutting me off. “I won’t waste your time pretending or talking about the ugly details of the past. I’m leaving with you at dawn because this needs to be finished.”“You don’t have to be the one to do this, Camilla,” I said. “You don’t owe Morgana your life on top of everything she’s already taken from you.”“Do you think I am so easy to kill?” Camilla asked.“No, I
Talia’s POV“Yes, it has to be her,” Nolan said. “The figure under the tree at Colin’s party. She’s had eyes on us this whole time, and after that ambush on the road, she knows we went to the coven, and she knows they said yes. She wouldn’t have come for me otherwise.”He sat propped up on the pillows, still pale, with bandages standing out against his skin.“So, they are not observing anymore,” I said.“No. She and the Rogue King are enacting their plan, and that means we need to prepare. We go to Silverfang. We pull everything together in one place, your brother’s strength and ours and whatever the coven can give us, and we get ready for a war, because it’s coming whether we’re ready or not.”I sat on the edge of the bed and looked at his bandages, wishing we could give him at least a week to heal.“You can barely sit up.”“I’ll be on my feet by morning. Whatever the witches gave me is speeding up my healing factor.” He took my hand in his. “I’m not asking you to pretend I’m fine. I
Talia’s POVI rushed past Camilla and sprinted down the hallway. “Talia, stop!” she called, but her voice was distant, drowned out by the images of Nolan bitten, his body twisting and changing into something wild and lost. ‘Enough,’ my wolf warned. ‘You’re letting fear take over again. He’s not lost to us.’I made it to the infirmary and followed his scent to the room he was in. I froze when I saw him.He lay there wrapped in blood-soaked bandages across his chest, arm, and shoulder. Nolan didn’t move, except for the slow rise and fall of his breathing."Nolan,” I said as I took his hand in both of mine. "It’s me, Talia. Please wake up.”Nolan didn’t respond. ‘I can not reach him through the bond,’ my wolf whimpered.I called his name again and again, desperate for any response, but he remained silent. Tears slid down my cheeks as dread twisted in my chest. What if something was terribly wrong? Was he trapped in pain, suffering as my father once had?"He was not bitten."Camilla ca







