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Chapter 120

مؤلف: Eliana Rose
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ERIN

The map became the center of my universe.

I traced the northern route with my fingers, feeling the paper's texture as if it could tell me something the coordinates could not. The convergence point sat in territory I had never heard anyone mention—a region so remote and supposedly barren that it didn't appear on most political maps.

"The Ashlands," Connor said, noticing my focus. "That's what the old maps call it. Named for a volcanic event centuries ago that left the soil dead for generati
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    ERINWren's hands trembled as she held the stone splinter.Her tears fell silently, dropping onto the ancient script carved into its surface. The fragment was barely larger than my thumb—a piece of cell wall that someone had broken free and hidden, a message waiting for the right person to find it."What does it say?"Wren looked up at me, her eyes red-rimmed and full of something I couldn't name."Your birth-title." Her voice cracked. "The one the stranger spoke at Miller's Pass. The name given to you before you could remember it."I remembered that moment. The hooded figure who had known things no stranger should know. The words that had meant nothing to me then and everything now."Whoever carved this knew the old script perfectly," Wren continued. "The stroke order. The traditional forms. The subtle variations that distinguish formal titles from common names. This wasn't someone who learned Moonblood writing from books.""This was someone raised in it.""Yes."My mother.My mother

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 124

    ERINBeth's words cut deeper than any blade could have."I spent sixteen years keeping you alive."I froze in the doorway, my packed bag still in my hand, weapons still at my hip. Maya and Marty flanked Beth, but it was the old woman who held me in place with nothing but her voice."Sixteen years of watching from a distance. Sixteen years of making sure the people hunting your bloodline never found the one child who escaped. Sixteen years of sacrificing everything I had built so that you could grow up safely without ever knowing the danger you were in.""Beth—""I will not watch you spend that life in a single reckless night."The words landed like stones in still water, their ripples spreading through everything I thought I knew.Sixteen years. The same number scratched into the cell wall at the relay station. The same number my mother had been imprisoned. While Beth had been watching over me from the shadows, ensuring the last Moonblood child survived to adulthood."You knew." My vo

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 123

    ERIN"Don't touch him yet."Marcus's voice came out as a rasp, stopping Nadia's hands before they could assess his wounds. His eyes were barely open, but the determination behind them burned with desperate intensity."You need treatment—""I need to report first." He grabbed my wrist again, pulling himself up despite the obvious agony the movement caused. "Before I pass out. Before I forget. You have to know."I knelt beside him on the cold stone of the courtyard."Tell me.""The northern territory isn't abandoned." Blood trickled from a gash on his forehead, mixing with the dust on his face. "It's occupied. The whole region. What looks like wasteland from a distance is actually a garrison. Hollow Fang forces operating under the banner of the Northern Watch.""The pack whose Alpha disappeared forty years ago?""They're using his banner. His colors. His territorial markers. Anyone who stumbles into the region thinks they've entered legitimate pack territory." Marcus coughed, the sound

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 122

    ERINThree days of nothing.No dreams. No messages. No word from the north. Just endless hours of waiting while the silence pressed down like a physical weight.I moved through Silver Ridge like a ghost, unable to settle, unable to focus. The declaration I had signed seemed meaningless now—political maneuvering while my mother might be dead and Jake might be walking into danger I couldn't warn him about.The compound continued its preparations regardless of my inner turmoil.Connor had ordered fortifications reinforced against the eastern threat. Work crews labored from dawn to dusk, strengthening walls, deepening trenches, positioning defensive emplacements. The air rang with hammer strikes and shouted coordination, the sounds of a community preparing for siege.Sullivan hadn't attacked yet.But everyone knew it was coming."The waiting is the hardest part." Marty appeared beside me on the second day, watching the construction crews work. "Before a battle, you can see your enemy. You

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 121

    ERINI told no one about the dream until morning.The words haunted me through the remaining hours of darkness—don't come, it's a trap, protect your children—circling endlessly while I stared at the ceiling and waited for dawn.When I finally described the vision to Wren, her reaction surprised me."Dream clarity scales with proximity." She pulled ancient texts from her medical library, spreading yellowed pages across the examination table. "The old Moonblood writings describe blood-bonds that strengthen when kin are physically closer. Emotions transmitted across distances. Warnings shared between parent and child during moments of extreme stress.""So my mother is getting closer?""The scouting party is getting closer to her. The connection works both ways." Wren traced faded diagrams showing interlinked family trees. "If Jake and Marcus are approaching the facility where she's held, the bond between you would intensify. That could explain why this dream was clearer than the previous

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 120

    ERINThe map became the center of my universe.I traced the northern route with my fingers, feeling the paper's texture as if it could tell me something the coordinates could not. The convergence point sat in territory I had never heard anyone mention—a region so remote and supposedly barren that it didn't appear on most political maps."The Ashlands," Connor said, noticing my focus. "That's what the old maps call it. Named for a volcanic event centuries ago that left the soil dead for generations.""But people live there now?""No one lives there." Marcus pulled out older documents from the archive. "The territory was claimed briefly about forty years ago by a small pack that called themselves the Northern Watch. They lasted less than a decade before their Alpha disappeared and the pack scattered."Wren leaned forward."Their Alpha disappeared?""Vanished from a guarded room during a regional summit. No body. No explanation. The pack fell apart within months." Marcus exchanged a glan

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