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Chapter 74
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2026-09-18 03:23:14
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ReyaI have never seen Killian look at Cormac the way he is looking at him now. He stands beside the infirmary bed, arms folded tight, watching Cormac’s unconscious face as the healer checks his pulse and eyes again. Killian has barely spoken since we walked in, but worry shows in his rigid shoulders and clenched jaw whenever the healer fails to give a clear answer. I stay a few steps behind him because I don’t know what else to do. Cormac looks wrong. Usually, even injured or exhausted, something sharp remains in his expression. He teases too much, laughs at Killian’s threats, and acts as though fear could hold him for only seconds. Now he is completely still beneath the blankets, his face far too pale against the pillow. The sight makes my stomach twist. “How long until he wakes up?” Killian asks the healer without taking his eyes off Cormac. The healer glances at him and answers carefully, “I don’t know yet, Alpha. I cannot say for certain when he will regain full consciousne
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KillianNight has settled over Blackwood and the courtyard torches burn low when I find myself at the window for the third time, watching the gate as if my gaze can will Cormac back through it. The repetition feels foolish the moment I noticed it, but the absence of any message from him makes the silence in the halls heavier than it had any right to be. Investigations do not run on tidy schedules, and roads can slow for any number of ordinary reasons, yet none of these practical truths ease the part of me that imagines every possible danger. Reya sits behind me with a book open across her lap, though she has been pretending to read for nearly twenty minutes and has not actually turned the page. Her shadows move at her feet like patient animals, and the soft rustle of parchment is the only sound besides the distant clink of armor from the lower guard. When she speaks, her voice is calm enough to be almost teasing, but the observation she offers cuts through the pretense of normalc
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CormacBy the time I reach the third village the light has thinned into a tired gray and the market’s bustle has become a series of shutters and murmurs. Traders are packing crates, children are being dragged home by impatient parents, and the smell of frying bread drifts from a single stubborn stall. It should’ve been easy work, ask a few questions, follow a trail, but the more I asked, the more the story splintered. “Old man, you said he stayed here two nights?” I ask the bookshop owner for the third time. “Maybe three,” the man hedges, rubbing the same spot on his jaw as if the motion would conjure certainty. “Time gets muddled when you’re counting other people’s coin.” “Which inn?” I press for the information. “The one across the road. Room seven.” He points without looking up, as if the motion has been practiced. I leave him with a coin and the uneasy feeling that I paid for the version of the truth he preferred. The problem with traders is that they are practiced at being
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KillianFor a long time we simply stay like this, Reya curled up against me, her cheek warm beneath my chin, the library around us is quiet except for the soft rustle of pages and the occasional creak of the old floorboards. Her shadows have settled too: one stretches across the floor like a lazy cat, another tucks itself beneath the table. They watch us with the same patient curiosity as the books. I run my fingers through her hair and feel something like peace settle over me. It is a small thing, and I know how fragile it is. The dream still hangs between us, the trader and the book and Cormac’s absence like a low, steady drumbeat under everything else. But for the moment she is here, and she is calm, and that is enough to make me breathe easier. “You’re very quiet,” I remark, because the silence feels too heavy for me to keep to myself. “You haven’t said a word in a while.” She tips her head and gives me that look, half teasing, half fond. “You usually complain when I’m quiet.
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ReyaThe library is silent except for the soft rustle of ancient parchment and the distant chime of the palace clocks. I sit close to Killian, our shoulders brushing, and the scent of old ink and his masculine musk swirls around us.We are hunched over a series of weather scrolls, our eyes scan the faded calligraphy of an era that’s been forgotten, but my focus has long since drifted away from the text.I can feel the heat radiating off of him, a magnetic pull that makes the fine hairs on my arms stand up. Every time his hand shifts to point out a passage, his fingers graze mine and it sends a jolt of electricity straight to my core.I try to concentrate on the words, but all I can think of is the way his jaw tightens when he is thinking and the deep resonant vibration of his voice when he reads aloud. And that fact that he is beside me through something like this makes it a lot more intimate for me.“This section mentions the selection of the children,” Killian murmurs, his voice dr
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ReyaI already decided that the scroll sitting in front of me is probably useless, yet my fingers continue to unroll it as if the paper might change it’s mind and suddenly offer something new. Most of the ink has faded into ghosts. Where letters remain, they speak of old territorial boundaries, disputes between packs that no longer exist, and trader routes through the northern mountains two centuries ago. Nothing about shadow children. Nothing that could possibly point me towards a hollow or a stone circle or a river that curves like a sleeping serpent. Still, I continue to read, because it is the one thing that I can do.After the dream, everything feels suspicious. Every map, every symbol, every neat coincidence that has nudged us along a particular path now looks like a hand guiding me where someone else wants me to go. Killian told me not to let the dream rule me. He is right. I am trying. But the girl’s warning, You are looking where they want you to look, continues to thread
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ReyaThree full days passed, and I quickly realized that living in the guard wing of the Blackwood fortress was basically like being a ghost. Alpha Killian completely kept his word about ignoring me. He did not check on me once. A quiet, elderly omega servant brought a tray of minimal rations to my
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ReyaThe journey to the northern border took three agonizing days. By the time the heavy wooden carriage finally ground to a halt, the warm green fields of the south were completely gone. I looked out the small window and saw nothing but dark pine trees and a freezing mountain rainstorm that looked
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ReyaThe fairy tale did not even last until midnight. The very second our carriage pulled up to the Oakwood estate, the illusion shattered into a million pieces. We barely made it through the front doors before the first heavy crystal vase came flying across the grand parlor, smashing directly into
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Reya"Stand straighter, Reya. You look like a hunchback standing next to your sister," my mother, Eleanor, hissed the words directly into my ear. She did not actually look at my face while she spoke. Her eyes were completely glued to my younger sister, Bernice, who was currently preening in front
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