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Chapter eighty

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Mona's POV

The training ground was slick with blood—Cassian's blood—but he stood anyway, facing Derek with the same stubborn determination that would either make him a great Alpha or get him killed before he turned nineteen.

"Again," Derek commanded, no mercy in his voice despite the father's heart I knew was breaking beneath the Alpha's exterior.

"Derek, he's had enough—"

"No." Cassian wiped blood from his split lip, his storm-wolf energy crackling across his shoulders. "I asked for this. Rea
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  • The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening    Chapter eighty

    Mona's POV The training ground was slick with blood—Cassian's blood—but he stood anyway, facing Derek with the same stubborn determination that would either make him a great Alpha or get him killed before he turned nineteen."Again," Derek commanded, no mercy in his voice despite the father's heart I knew was breaking beneath the Alpha's exterior."Derek, he's had enough—""No." Cassian wiped blood from his split lip, his storm-wolf energy crackling across his shoulders. "I asked for this. Real training. Real consequences."Eighteen years old and already carrying the weight of future leadership like armor. After the windows exploded three months ago, after the Shadow Council's new faction revealed itself by targeting half-breed children across all territories, everything changed. Cassian stopped being a boy overnight. The attack on our home had failed—barely—but seventeen other families weren't so lucky. Their children were taken. Lyra remained trapped at the Phoenix Academy, her let

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    Mona's POV The suitcase sat by the door like a countdown timer, each passing hour bringing us closer to the moment my firstborn would walk through that door and not come back for who knew how long."Stop staring at it," Derek said, but his eyes were fixed on the same leather case. "You're making it worse.""She's sixteen." The words came out broken. "She was just born yesterday. I can still feel her tiny fingers wrapping around mine.""Mom, you're being dramatic." Lyra descended the stairs, her phoenix fire dancing across her shoulders—controlled now, elegant, nothing like the wild flames of her childhood. "I'm not dying. I'm just... leaving."Just leaving. As if those words didn't rip through my chest worse than Lucian's claws ever had. But I forced a smile because this was her moment, her choice, her journey to make."Your transport arrives in twenty minutes," Cassian said from the kitchen, his voice carefully neutral. He'd been pretending not to care for weeks, but I'd heard him c

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    Mona's POV "I hate you!" Lyra's scream echoed through the house, followed by the slam of her bedroom door that rattled every window on the second floor.Derek stood at the bottom of the stairs, his jaw clenched so tight I could hear his teeth grinding. "She's not going to the Phoenix Gathering alone. She's fifteen.""I told you to let me handle it," I said, though handling Lyra these days was like trying to hold fire with bare hands—possible, but guaranteed to leave scars."You always take her side." Cassian appeared in the kitchen doorway, his storm-wolf energy crackling with teenage resentment. "She throws tantrums and gets whatever she wants.""That's not true—""Really? Because Dad said no to my warrior training application, and you backed him up. But Lyra wants to fly across three territories to meet random phoenixes, and suddenly Dad's the villain?"Rose, eight and too perceptive for anyone's good, sat at the kitchen table drawing. "You're all being loud," she said without look

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    Mona's POV Marcus Blackstone's money trail led to seventeen shell companies, but I couldn't prove it in any court that would listen—not when half the judges had Pure Wolf Council sympathizers on their payrolls."We're losing," I told Derek after another failed referendum vote, this one in Moonrise Pack where we'd once had solid allies. "They're better at this game than we are.""Then we change the game." He pulled out a map, marking each pack where the Council had gained ground. "Look at the pattern. They're not winning in packs where people know you personally. They're winning where you're just a name, a concept."He was right. The Pure Wolf Council's greatest weapon was abstraction—the faceless "phoenix threat" was easier to fear than the woman who'd saved cubs, who'd bled for peace, who'd united packs. So I did something that went against every instinct: I became completely, vulnerably public.The first speech was in Northwind territory, where the Council had just opened their new

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    Mona's POV The letter arrived on a Tuesday morning, delivered by a wolf I didn't recognize, his eyes holding that particular blend of superiority and fear I'd learned to spot from a hundred yards away."From the Pure Wolf Council," he said, as if the name should mean something. "A formal declaration of our intentions."I read it while Derek made breakfast, the normal sounds of our children arguing over toast a strange backdrop to the political poison in my hands. Not threats of violence—those I could handle. This was worse. This was systematic dismantling disguised as democracy."They're organizing votes," I told Derek, sliding the letter across the table. "In twelve packs simultaneously. Referendums to repeal phoenix-wolf integration agreements.""Can they do that?" Lyra asked, fourteen and sharp as her flames. "Just vote away peace?""If they get enough support, yes." Derek's jaw tightened as he read. "They're not breaking any laws. They're using them."Cassian, his storm-wolf natu

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  • The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening    Chapter Fifty Eight

    Mona's POV The bathroom floor felt cold against my knees as I threw up for the third morning in a row, trying to muffle the sounds so Derek wouldn't hear.But of course he heard. Derek always heard everything—wolf senses combined with the mate bond made privacy basically impossible. His hand settl

  • The Phoenix Wolf's Awakening    Chapter Fifty seven

    Mona's POV The girl couldn't have been more than twelve, but her eyes held the weight of someone who'd lived through hell and remembered every second."You're lying," she said, pressing herself deeper into the corner of the abandoned barn where I'd found her. Orange flames flickered along her arms

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