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Chapter 2

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Coralie let out a sharp laugh, her eyes full of contempt.

"You've truly lost your mind."

"Warriors! Throw this lunatic out!"

The warriors outside the door had barely taken a step forward when Alaric moved, planting himself squarely in front of me.

"I dare anyone to touch her."

Ethan and Lucius immediately closed ranks at my sides, their pupils shifting to vertical slits as they fixed the warriors with vicious stares.

Ethan spoke through clenched teeth, his voice carrying a razor edge.

"Coralie, if Nova says something happened to my mother, then something happened to my mother."

"Anyone who tries to stop Nova today, I will tear apart."

Coralie's face went ashen with rage, her chest heaving.

The woman on the bed chose that moment to let two tears slip down her cheeks, sinking back against the headboard with practiced frailty.

"Alaric, Ethan, please. Don't do this."

"If Nova insists on investigating, then let her investigate."

"But when she finds nothing, I hope you can leave a mother some dignity."

I bent down and gathered the tarot cards from the floor, my expression blank, though something in my chest ached terribly.

Back in the orphanage, Felicity had always been the timid one. Even when the bigger, stronger wolves snatched her food, she would only slip behind me and cry where no one could see.

But when Alaric's enemies cornered me in an abandoned warehouse, she had charged through the door with a stick of dynamite in one hand and a lighter in the other, screaming that she would bring the whole place down with them.

We had sworn to make something of ourselves together, to live well and live free. I would not allow her to vanish from this world without a sound.

"The Moon. The Tower. The Hermit."

I snapped my gaze to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hospital room.

"The eastern edge of the territory. The pack's centennial altar."

Alaric's pupils contracted slightly. He didn't hesitate for even a second.

"Get the cars ready. We're going to the altar."

The woman, despite the exhaustion of having just given birth, insisted on following, a healer pushing her wheelchair the entire way.

When we arrived at the Crescent Moon Pack's altar, my eyes locked onto the sprawling artificial lake that dominated the grounds.

Whatever the tarot cards had led me to was lying at the bottom of that water.

"Drain it."

At Alaric's command, dozens of high-powered pumps began working in unison.

As the water level steadily dropped, a thick layer of silt emerged and lay exposed to the open air.

Ethan didn't even bother taking off his jacket. He vaulted over the marble railing and dropped into the knee-deep mud below.

At the spot I had indicated, he began digging with his bare hands in a frantic, relentless rhythm.

"Nova, there's something here!"

He wrenched an object from the silt, wrapped tightly in layer after layer of plastic, then clawed his way back up the bank on his hands and knees.

Alaric crossed the distance in a few long strides, breathing hard, and took it from him. Warriors rushed over with clean water to rinse it off.

As the plastic layers were peeled away one by one, everyone fell still.

What was inside was not remains at all.

It was a string of moonstone beads, weathered with age.
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