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19. What the Moon Heard.
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2026-07-09 20:55:00I sat on the edge of Caelum's bed that night and didn't turn on the lamp. I just watched him breathe.
He looked so small like this, dark hair fanned across the pillow, stuffed wolf crushed under one arm, breath slow and even. Any other five-year-old. Innocent. Normal. Safe.
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Too Late To Claim Me 22. The Man Who Talked
Marcus Webb made his first mistake three days later. He showed up at my office.I was mid-meeting with Gerald and two attorneys when Lina's voice cut through the intercom. "Ms. Vance? There's a Mr. Webb here. Says he's from Sterling Holdings. Says it's urgent."The room went still."Did he say what he wanted?""No. But he seems... nervous."I looked at Gerald. Nervous was interesting. Nervous meant something had changed."Small conference room. I'll be there in ten minutes."I stood outside the door a moment before I went in, watching him through the glass. He looked smaller than his file photo, average height, average build, the kind of man who'd built a whole career out of being forgettable. His hands were shaking on the table in front of him.I opened the door. "Ms. Vance. Thank you for seeing me.""I'm told you have information." I stayed standing, deliberately, letting the height difference and the closed door behind me do some of the work my voice didn't need to."I do." He glan
Too Late To Claim Me 21. A Name Called Webb
He was too perceptive for his own good, tuned into every current of fear running through our house whether he understood it or not. I couldn't hide anything from him anymore. Apparently I never really could."I'll fix it," I promised."I know." He pressed a small hand against my cheek, and for just a second, exhaustion loosened its grip on me. "You're the bravest mommy in the whole world."I pulled him into my arms and held on longer than I should have. "Where did you learn to say things like that?""I don't know. I just know it's true."***
Too Late To Claim Me 20. The Call at Four A.M.
The phone rang at four in the morning, and I already knew before I answered that nothing good ever called at that hour. I fumbled for it in the dark, heart already pounding before I'd even seen the name on the screen."Ms. Aurora, it's Gerald."His voice was tight in a way I'd never heard from him before. Gerald didn't panic. Gerald negotiated, read rooms, smiled while he twisted the knife. He didn't call before sunrise, not once in five years, not even the week Ironwood almost fell through the first time.I was already out of bed, laptop halfway open, adrenaline doing the work my brain hadn't caught up to yet. "What happened?""Sterling Holdings. They're making a move.""What kind of move?""They're claiming we violated our agreement with Ironwood. Non-compete clauses, proprietary information, it's nonsense, Ms. Aurora, but they've got a small army of lawyers and they're threatening to tie us up in litigation for years."The blood left my face in one long drop. "Ironwood is our bigge
Too Late To Claim Me 19. What the Moon Heard.
I sat on the edge of Caelum's bed that night and didn't turn on the lamp. I just watched him breathe.He looked so small like this, dark hair fanned across the pillow, stuffed wolf crushed under one arm, breath slow and even. Any other five-year-old. Innocent. Normal. Safe.He wasn't any of those things, and I was the only one who knew it yet, sitting here in the dark keeping watch over a secret that had already cost one woman her life.I thought about the way Lena's uncle had looked at me, searching my face for something familiar he couldn't quite place. I thought about the forest, still standing untouched after thirty years bec
Too Late To Claim Me 18. The Forest They Won't Name
I arrived twenty minutes early, the way I always did, and let my security team sweep the room while I read the proposal one more time.Old habits die hard. Even now I checked the exits before I sat. Back to the wall. Every face in the room, catalogued for threats that probably weren't there.My lead man, Grant, came back from the far corner and gave me a small nod. "Clean, Ms. Vance.""Thank you." I set the proposal down and folded my hands over it, arranging my face into the neutral, unreadable expression that had gotten me through a hundred negotiations with men who underestimated me on sight, back when I was building this comp
Too Late To Claim Me 17. The Silverwood Name.
She didn't tell me all at once. It came out over three days, in pieces, always when Caelum was at preschool or asleep down the hall, like even the truth had to wait until he couldn't hear it."Your mother wasn't a servant," Mara said on the first evening, the two of us alone in the kitchen with the lights low. "Not really.""What do you mean, not really? She scrubbed floors for the Beta's household. I remember the calluses on her hands.""She was hiding, Aria. She was the daughter of a powerful Alpha, a pack that doesn't exist anymore. It was destroyed before you were even conceived. Its people scattered or killed. Crestwood absorbed what was left of the territory."Something in my chest tightened, a name I didn't know yet already aching to be spoken. "What pack?""Silverwood."The word landed strange, familiar in a way it shouldn't have been, like a note struck on an instrument I didn't remember owning. "I've never heard that name in my life.""You wouldn't have. They made sure of th
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