LOGINJayden's POV"Vivian has had days to think about it now." I leaned back against the couch, arms crossed. "I still think she is going to say yes in the end."Aiden shrugged from the chair across from me. "I hope so. The Ravenors are not the kind of family you keep waiting for an answer.""Vivian would be foolish to turn down an offer like that." I glanced toward the hallway out of habit, half expecting Vivian to appear the moment we started talking about her, the way she always seemed to. "Lucien manages half their business empire already. Old money, real connections, exactly the kind of alliance this pack needs going forward.""She has never been foolish." Aiden's tone carried the certainty of an older brother who watched her grow up making smart choices, even when she complained about them first. "She will come around eventually. She always does."I nodded, though some part of me was still turning over how quiet Vivian had gone the last time we brought it up.The door opened before
Mason's POV"You are Omegas." I let the words land exactly as heavy as I fully meant them. "That means you hold no real value to me whatsoever. None. Do you understand what I am telling you right now?"None of them answered, but their faces told me they understood perfectly.I let the silence stretch a moment longer before continuing, wanting every word that came next to sink in fully."If either of you ever lay a hand on our Luna again, or if I so much as hear a whisper of anything close to what you attempted, you will be banished from this pack." I let my eyes move across all three of them slowly, deliberately, giving each one a long moment under my gaze before continuing. "Or worse, you will be ordered to duel a high ranked warrior. Someone like Roland."Calista's face went pale."As Omegas," I continued, my voice deliberately even, "you would not survive that. Either of those outcomes ends the same way for you. Think carefully before you ever consider testing me on this again."S
Celeste's POV"I did it." Calista's voice cracked completely apart on the words. "I'm sorry. I never meant for it to go that far, I swear to you both."The hall stayed dead silent, every single eye in the room fixed intently on her.Mason stepped forward, his expression carved into something completely unreadable. "Why?"Calista said nothing.She stared down at the floor, her arms wrapped tightly around herself, and for a long, heavy moment the only sound in the entire Grand Hall was her uneven breathing."Answer me right now." Mason's voice sharpened, cutting clean through her silence. "Stop wasting my time, Calista. Why did you do it?"Her head lifted slowly, hesitantly. When she finally spoke, her voice came out smaller than before, stripped of every ounce of the defiance she walked in with."Because I don't think she belongs here." Her eyes flicked toward me for half a second before dropping back to the floor again. "I've never seen her as part of this pack, not once. She's an out
Celeste's POVMorning came faster than I truly wanted it to.After everything Mason and Jason said to me the night before, after the way they held me close and promised I would never feel like that again, I woke up lighter than I had in days. That lightness lasted exactly as long as it took me to remember what today actually was.Getting ready that morning felt strange, like preparing for something caught somewhere between a trial and a punishment, and I wasn't entirely sure which side of it I actually belonged on.The Grand Hall.By the time we arrived, the space had already filled with pack members standing in loose clusters near the walls, murmuring quietly among themselves. Mason and Jason walked me to the front, one on either side, and Roland stood near the platform with his arms folded and his expression carved from stone.The whole hall carried a weight I hadn't felt since my own Luna ceremony, except this time the energy in the room was nothing close to celebration. It was c
Celeste's POV I pulled them both closer and kissed them at the same time, mouths overlapping in a messy, hungry tangle. Mason’s hand cupped the back of my neck while Jason’s fingers dug into my hip, holding me steady between them. Heat curled low through my legs almost immediately, sharp and familiar, the kind that made my knees soft. I shifted my weight and cracked them open a little wider, like the fight downstairs had never happened, like I hadn’t spent half the night telling myself I was still angry. They noticed. Mason’s mouth left mine just long enough to drag my sleep shirt up and over my head. The cool air touched my bare skin for half a second before Jason worked the soft shorts down my thighs until they pooled at my ankles. I stepped out of them without thinking. Both of them closed in again, chests warm against me, mouths finding my neck and collarbone. Mason’s mouth closed over my left breast first, sucking the nipple deep into the heat of his mouth.
Celeste's POVI sat on the edge of my bed for a long while after the house went completely quiet.The anger cooled into something else now, something closer to guilt, sitting heavy in my chest where the fury used to be. I replayed the whole scene in my head, Daren kneeling on the floor, my own voice cracking as I told them it was their fault, the way I walked out without letting either of them respond.Maybe I overreacted.I pulled my knees up and wrapped my arms around them. It wasn't entirely their fault, not really, and some small honest part of me knew that even as I said it downstairs. Calista's issues with me existed long before either of them ever did anything wrong. I just needed somewhere to put all of it, and they were standing closest when it came pouring out.I genuinely probably owed them an apology.My pride had other plans entirely.Apologizing meant admitting I was unfair, and I wasn't quite ready to hand that over yet, not after the day I just had. Not after a boy p







