The trap had been set in silence, and silence was how it snapped shut.For days, Lucian Wolfe said nothing, moving through the keep as though nothing had changed. He sat at Seraphine’s side during meals, shared her bed at night, and let her curl against him as if she still held his loyalty in her hands. To the outside world, nothing was amiss. To Seraphine, he seemed the same—distant at times, burdened by the weight of Alpha duties, but still hers.And that was exactly what Lucian wanted her to believe.The false plans had left the keep, passed into shadows through the hands Seraphine trusted most. Lucian’s men tracked every whisper, every footstep, every shift in the dark. And then, like a hawk circling its prey, the truth returned to him.The “southern ambush,” a battle that never truly existed, had reached ears it never should have—enemies lying low in the hills, remnants of Xavier’s broken forces, stirred by bait that only Seraphine could have released.Lucian had his answer.It w
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