MasukKIARA'S POVThe words on the wall refused to disappear.THE GATE IS OPENING.I stared at them, my heart pounding.Nobody spoke.Even the warriors who had gathered outside the council chamber seemed frozen.Kael slowly lowered his sword."What exactly is beneath Moonfall Peak?"The witch doctor didn't answer.She was staring at the wall as though she had just seen something she had spent her entire life trying to forget."Tell me."Her eyes met Kael's."There are stories.""I don't want stories."His voice was firm."I want the truth."The old woman swallowed."The Gate isn't a physical door.""What is it?""A boundary.""Between this world...""...and something else."A cold breeze swept through the room.Olivia wrapped her arms around herself."Something else?"The witch doctor nodded."Long before wolves formed packs and witches formed covens, there were beings who lived beyond our world.""They were powerful.""Too powerful.""So the first witch and the first Alpha worked together
KIARA'S POVNobody moved.The black feather remained on the floor between us.The symbol of the First Circle seemed to glow beneath the candlelight, almost as though it had been placed there deliberately to remind us that whoever was watching us wanted us afraid.Kael picked it up.His expression was unreadable."Lock down the pack."Liam immediately nodded."Every entrance?""Every entrance.""Nobody comes in.""And nobody leaves."Ronan stepped forward."What about the warriors already outside the walls?"Kael looked at him."Bring the senior guards inside."Ronan frowned."All of them?""All except those already stationed at the nursery."His voice hardened."Rowan and Ryder stay protected."I watched him carefully.Even with everything happening around us, his first thought was still our sons.I reached for his hand.He squeezed mine.Then Olivia spoke."Kael."He turned."What?""You cannot suspect everyone.""I don't.""You do."Kael looked at the feather again."I suspect someo
KIARA'S POVWe didn't speak as we left Moonfall Peak.There was nothing to say.Too many questions had been thrown into the air, and none of us had enough answers to catch even one.Kael rode ahead of us.His shoulders were rigid.His eyes remained fixed on the road.Adrian rode several feet behind him.The brothers hadn't spoken since leaving the mountain.Olivia stayed between them.She looked exhausted.Not physically.Emotionally.She had carried a secret for eighteen years.And now it was finally beginning to destroy her.I rode beside her."Olivia."She looked at me."Yes?""You don't have to tell me anything you're not ready to say."Her eyes softened."Thank you.""But Kael deserves the truth.""I know."She looked ahead at her sons."I've spent eighteen years trying to protect him.""And I thought silence was protection."She sighed."I was wrong."---When we finally returned to the pack, the gates opened immediately.Warriors rushed toward us.Their expressions changed the
KAEL'S POVFor several seconds, I couldn't breathe.The man standing at the end of the corridor looked exactly like the brother I had buried eighteen years ago.Same dark hair.Same sharp jaw.Same scar above his left eyebrow.Even the same crooked smile.But it couldn't be him.It was impossible.My brother was dead.I had watched them lower his coffin into the ground.I had stood beside my mother while she cried.I had been ten years old, but I remembered everything.Every detail.Every tear.Every word my father had whispered afterward.Your brother is with the Moon Goddess now.And yet...He was standing in front of me.Alive."Adrian?"The name left my mouth before I could stop it.The stranger's smile widened."It's been a long time, little brother."My sword lowered slightly.Kiara immediately grabbed my arm."Kael..."I couldn't look at her.My eyes remained fixed on him."You died."He laughed quietly."That's what they wanted you to believe."Olivia suddenly pushed through t
KAEL'S POVThe footsteps grew louder.One after another.Slow.Deliberate.Surrounding us from both ends of the underground passage.I tightened my grip around my sword.Kiara stood beside me, her eyes glowing faintly in the darkness. Ronan had positioned himself between Aldric and the approaching figures, while Liam gathered the remaining warriors behind us.Olivia stayed close to the witch doctor.No one spoke.Then Seraphine's voice echoed through the tunnel again."You really should have left the past buried, Kael."I stepped forward."You seem frightened."A short silence followed.Then she laughed."Frightened?""You heard me.""I've faced Alphas stronger than you.""Then why did you sound afraid when Aldric was about to speak?"Silence.That silence told me everything.I looked at Aldric."You know something she doesn't want me to know."Aldric nodded slowly."Yes."Seraphine's voice suddenly became sharp."Aldric."The old warrior flinched."Don't."She continued."You've spent
KAEL'S POVThe footprints disappeared into the darkness.I stared at them for several seconds.Fresh.Someone had entered this hidden passage recently.Someone who knew exactly what was buried beneath the old barracks."Nobody moves," I said.Liam immediately raised his hand, stopping the warriors behind us.Ronan stepped beside me."Whoever left those tracks knows this place.""Then we'll find out who."I drew my sword.Kiara moved closer."I'm coming."I glanced at her."I know."She smiled faintly."You finally stopped arguing.""I'm learning.""Slowly."Despite everything, a small smile crossed my face.Then we entered the passage.---The tunnel descended deeper beneath the pack.The air became colder with every step.Ancient symbols covered the walls.Some had been scratched out.Others were almost completely destroyed.The witch doctor stopped several times to examine them."This passage predates your father's reign.""How old?""Older than the pack itself."I frowned."Then wh
KAEL’S POV After the meeting I had with the elders in the pack asking me to give them an heir that would pass the wolf legacy down I decided to leave the pack for some days to free my head.But still I couldn’t get her off my mind. It's been four months and just a one night stand. All I knew was t
KIARA’S POVThis trip was never ending. It felt like we had been driving for days and I was getting really tired of it. One day was like the other. We would stop at gas stations, drive on highways and stay in motels that smelled like dust. All of this was for one person. Kael.We almost found Kael
KIARA’S POV Chloe, wait what do you mean ?…. What is the doctor trying to say?… I’m pregnant with twins? I mean how is a one night stand supposed to get me pregnant even after I used a protection spell on myself not to get pregnant and now I’m actually pregnant with not just one but two freaki
KAEL'S POVNothing has felt more important to me than the event four months ago. The elder was still talking.I stopped listening approximately six minutes ago.Twelve seats. Twelve men. Eleven of them were sweating through expensive suits trying to convince me that their proposal was worth my tim







