Semua Bab Mated To My Stepbrother : Bab 111 - Bab 113

ASHTON'S POVThe predawn air in the courtyard bit like Silvermane teeth, sharp and cold. Ashton stood near the mounting block, the scent of frost, horse sweat, and damp stone thick in his nostrils. The sky was a bruised purple bleeding into grey at the eastern edge. Moonstone Keep loomed behind him, a hulking silhouette against the fading night, its ancient stones humming with the restless pulse of the pack. It wasn't a sound you heard with your ears; it was a vibration felt in the marrow, a discordant thrum of fear, anticipation, exhaustion, and a low-burning anger. Hundreds of hearts, hundreds of breaths, all tangled together in a knot of shared dread. Ten years ago, this pulse had been a steady drumbeat of security. Now, it felt like the frantic flutter of a trapped bird.Rylan materialized from the gloom near the stables, his silhouette solid and scarred against the lantern light. He moved with the quiet certainty of a predator, but the lines around his eyes were deeper in the gre

Novah's POVThe silence in the room was a heavy, living thing. Not peaceful. Not restful. It pressed in on Novah like damp wool, thick with the unspoken tension radiating from the stones of Moonstone Keep itself. She lay on the wide bed, staring at the intricate carvings on the ceiling beams – wolves chasing stags, moons in phases – details she hadn’t truly *seen* before. Ten years. Ten years stolen, leaving her a stranger in her own skin, in this fortress that hummed with a pulse she felt deep in her marrow.A pulse that was currently a discordant thrum of fear, grief, and a low-burning anger. It vibrated through the mattress, up her spine. *Finn’s pyre burns.* The thought surfaced, unbidden, sharp and cold. She didn’t know Finn. Not consciously. But the collective grief of the pack, sharp as a blade, sliced through the fog in her mind. She felt the echo of a young life extinguished, the raw agony of a mother’s loss emanating from the eastern quarter. It blended sickeningly with the