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Liam's POVAn older woman at the back of the hall broke first."Please, Alpha." Her voice cracked loud across the silence. "It's Yara and Nana. Please don't banish the rest of us. We've been here for years, we've given everything to Blue Elite, and if we leave as rogues they will kill us. Please." She pressed both hands to the floor and the others around her were nodding, heads down, shoulders hunched, and the energy in the room shifted from fearful to something desperate.I looked at the older woman. "Say what you need to say."She lifted her head and her eyes went straight to Yara and Nana. "It was them, Alpha. Yara and Nana. They drove her out. They were the ones who cornered her in the corridor and pursued her with their lycan forms." Her voice was shaking but she held it. "We tried to stop them. We thought — we assumed it was your order because they outrank us and they were so sure of themselves and we didn't — we didn't know what to do."One of the guards stepped forward. "She's
Liam's POVHer scent was faint.That was the first thing. The moment I stepped into the VIP corridor something in my chest pulled tight and wrong and my wolf lifted his head before my brain caught up. I pushed the door open and stood in the entrance and the room was empty and the blanket was on the floor and the basin was disturbed and there was no Ivy.I walked in. Checked the bathroom. Checked behind the door. Came back and stood in the middle of the room and the tightness in my chest was spreading, slow and cold, into something considerably less comfortable.Nobody came in here. I had made that clear to everyone the day we arrived. Rixon, the two caretakers, and nobody else. This wing, this corridor, this specific suite — nobody without my permission. I had said it once and in this pack once was enough.I went back into the corridor. Rixon was two steps behind me, files still in hand, and I looked at him with an expression that made him stop walking. "Where is she."He blinked. "I'
Liam's POVHer scent was faint.That was the first thing. The moment I stepped into the VIP corridor something in my chest pulled tight and wrong and my wolf lifted his head before my brain caught up. I pushed the door open and stood in the entrance and the room was empty and the blanket was on the floor and the basin was disturbed and there was no Ivy.I walked in. Checked the bathroom. Checked behind the door. Came back and stood in the middle of the room and the tightness in my chest was spreading, slow and cold, into something considerably less comfortable.Nobody came in here. I had made that clear to everyone the day we arrived. Rixon, the two caretakers, and nobody else. This wing, this corridor, this specific suite — nobody without my permission. I had said
Liam's POVIt’s been one week. I was gone for one week and somehow in that time my brother had decided to use the treasury wing as a personal punching bag, Alpha Edmund had taken his security agreement and his wounded pride I didn’t home with him just because I didn’t attend his daughter’s birthday , and my beta was standing in my office with dark circles under his eyes and the particular energy of a man who had rehearsed this conversation multiple times and was determined to deliver every line.I sat behind my desk, jaw tight, working through the damage reports, and tried very hard not to think about the fact that Ivy had been asleep for three days.I was not succeeding."Did you get the jade key, Alpha?" Rixon dropped another file on the desk. "B
Ivy's POVI didn't understand what was happening. I didn't understand this place, these people, or why two women who had never seen me in their lives hated me with the specific intensity of something personal. All I knew was that my face was still stinging from the slap, my scalp was burning from where my hair had been yanked, and I was running barefoot through a corridor that kept getting longer with no end in sight and no idea where Liam was.Liam. I just needed Liam and then we would leave. That was it. That was the whole plan. Find him, tell him I was awake, and go. We didn't belong here. Someone had probably just taken us in out of kindness and these two were furious about it and honestly I was starting to think the kindness wasn't worth the trouble.I burst through a side door and the outside air hit me hard. I stumbled onto open grounds and the people moving across the courtyard stopped and stared. Every single one of them. A group near the fountain froze mid-conversation. A ma
Ivy's POVI didn't know when I fell asleep and I didn't know how long I was out, but when I opened my eyes the first thing I noticed was the smell. Warm and deep, cedar and something else underneath it that made my wolf stretch inside me like she was waking from the best sleep of her life and release a long satisfied sound that I immediately felt embarrassed about.Then I registered the ceiling.It was high. Impossibly high.. The bed I was lying on was the kind of bed that made every bed you'd ever slept in feel like a park bench. I sat up slowly, my head throbbing, and looked around and understood exactly nothing. Rich walls, heavy curtains, every surface deliberate and spotless and expensive in the quiet way of places that didn't need to announce themselves.This was not Ironveil. This was not anywhere I had ever been in my life.I stood on shaky legs, splashed water on my face from the basin near the window, and looked outside at grounds that stretched further than I could track —







