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Quinn froze.
Rebecca had climbed down beside her, but neither of them looked nearly as confident as they had before the support collapsed.
“This was an accident,” Rebecca said.
“No, it wasn’t,” Julien answered.
His voice had settled back into its usual controlled register, but I could feel the anger beneath it now. The bond made it impossible to miss. What would once have looked like calm restr
RaeLinc felt it too.I knew before I asked because his attention had shifted inward, the warmth of his accepted bond still wrapped around mine while something more distant moved at its edges. Grant, Julien, and Brax were nowhere near us, yet their reactions had reached both of us as clearly as if they had been standing on the other side of the stone wall.“My wolf said something,” I told him.Linc’s arm remained around me, but his fingers stopped moving against my sleeve. “What?”“Accepted.”His gaze sharpened.I waited for my wolf to elaborate. She didn’t. Apparently one-word declarations were going to remain her preferred method of explaining life-changing supernatural events.“I’m assuming she means the bond.”“So am I.”I studied him. “Does yours feel different?”Linc was quiet for a moment, concentrating on something I could feel him trying to understand. “Stronger. But that’s not quite it.”“Mine feels closer.”His eyes met mine. “Yeah.”The word came with a pulse of warmth thr
RaeLinc’s hand was still cupping my cheek, his thumb resting just beneath my cheekbone while his forehead touched mine.Through the bond, I could feel how badly he wanted to close the small distance between us, but none of that want moved into his hand or pushed against me.He simply waited, steady and patient even while his wolf pressed close enough to the surface that mine practically vibrated in response.My wolf had already made her opinion very clear.Mate.Warm certainty rolled through me with the word, and for once I didn’t feel the need to argue with her.Everything about this situation was happening too quickly if I tried to measure it against a normal life, but nothing about my life had been normal since the seal started breaking.This morning alone, I had learned that I was the True Luna, that four different men were somehow my mates, and that my mot
RaeFor several minutes after Jesse walked away, none of us moved.I could still feel the hurt I had caused him sitting heavy beneath my ribs, though I knew now that not all of the calm settling over it belonged to me. Linc’s moonstone fragment remained curled in his hand, his thumb resting against the pale surface as though he had forgotten it was there.Grant noticed first.His gaze dropped to Linc’s hand, then lifted to me. I felt the question before he asked it.“You’re okay?”“I’m fine.”Concern pushed through his bond anyway.I gave him a look.He sighed. “Right. You can feel that.”“Very much.”Brax shoved both hands into his pockets and glanced toward the academic buildings. “So are we all just standing here until Rae tells us what to do now?”“I would actually love it if everyone stopped asking me what to do for at least an hour.”“That seems reasonable,” Julien said.Grant looked considerably less convinced. “You’ve had enough happen today.”“I know. Which is exactly why I’m
RaeBy the time we left the history building, Harold and Sonya had gone with Mansfield to continue discussing Elena somewhere private.Chrissy headed toward the dining hall after reminding me I had skipped lunch, leaving the five of us beneath the stone arch with no emergency to chase and no adult telling us what came next.For the first time since the seal broke, we were simply standing together.That should have made things easier.It did not.For several seconds, nobody seemed to know what to do. Brax shoved his hands into his pockets, Julien looked across the courtyard as though something out there might provide instructions, and Grant appeared to be concentrating very hard on keeping everything he felt from spilling through the bond.It wasn’t working.I could still feel all four of them.The fragments had sharpened every connection enough that their emotions moved against mine i
RaeBy the time Mansfield finally closed the folders on Elena Vicker, my brain had reached its limit.Apparently, learning that my mother’s half-sister had married into Jesse’s family, lied to Harold about her identity, and spent hours researching hidden lunar bloodlines eight years ago was enough information for one afternoon. Mansfield seemed to agree because she stacked the records together and announced that she needed time to request the full archive logs, verify Elena’s council history, and determine exactly how much access she had gained through the Vicker Pack.Grant looked like he wanted to argue with the concept of stopping, but the anger moving through our bond remained contained.Her attention shifted to the five moonstone fragments still resting in our hands.“Before anyone leaves, put those back on the table.”Brax glanced down at his piece. “They might object.”Mansfield’s eyes narrowed. “What does that mean?”I looked around the table and realized none of us had actua
RaeFor several seconds, nobody said anything.The name sat on the page in front of Mansfield like it had been waiting there all along.Vicker.My stomach tightened.Jesse’s last name.The same last name attached to the pack I had almost driven into two days earlier.Mansfield rested one hand beside the record. “Elena Meadows married into the Vicker family twenty years ago.”Grant’s anger hit the bond so suddenly that my wolf lifted her head.Mansfield continued before anyone interrupted. “Her husband is the younger brother of the current Vicker Alpha. He also serves as the pack’s Beta.”Chrissy looked toward me. I already knew what she was thinking.Jesse.Julien leaned forward. “So Elena is his aunt.”“By marriage, yes.”Brax’s earlier humor had disappeared completely. “And she’s been living inside one of the most politically connected packs in the region for twenty years.”Mansfield nodded. “With direct access to Vicker family records, council relationships, and whatever historical
RaeAnd when I finally looked up, it wasn’t who I expected.Not even close.Brax Weston stood in the doorway balancing two pizza boxes, four sodas, and enough confidence to make it seem like he’d been invited.Chrissy’s eyes widened.Brax grinned.“Good,” he announced. “You’re alive.”I blinked.“W
RaeBy the time I made it back to my dorm room, the box in my hands felt heavier than it had any right to.It wasn’t the weight of the things inside it. It was everything attached to them—the way Sonya had looked at me, the way Julien hadn’t backed down, the way Grant had stepped into the conversat
RaeBy the time classes ended, I understood something I hadn’t been prepared for when I walked into Ravenwood Academy that morning.Being ignored had been easier.At least when I was invisible, people didn’t look at me like I was something to be figured out.Now they did.The whispers had changed.
Rae The Ravenwood Pack had one human.That human was me.Most wolves didn’t bother remembering anything else about me. Not my name. Not how long I had lived on their territory. Just the simple, inconvenient truth that I didn’t belong in their world.Humans didn’t live inside wolf packs.Yet someho







