All Chapters of SHADOWBORN: The Rise Of The Dragon Wolf : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Chapter 60Daisy I froze. That was a good question, one I'd never thought to ask. Adrian had told me I'd always known how to dance, that it was one of the few skills that had remained despite my memory loss. But where had I learned? When?"I don't know," I admitted quietly. "But that doesn't mean your explanation is the right one.""Then what's your explanation?" Alexander asked. "If you're not Nyx, how do you account for skills that take years of training to develop? Not just years, those skill aren't just taught anywhere. You need training from a professional. A dance instructor."I had no answer. The silence stretched between us, heavy with implications I didn't want to examine."I need to go," I finally said, moving toward the garden exit. "Adrian will be looking for me.""Daisy, wait..."But I was already walking away, my heart pounding with confusion and something that might have been fear. Not of Alexand

Chapter 58Alex"What if she could shift, but something was blocking her?" Daisy asked. "What if whatever caused my memory loss also... unlocked something that had been suppressed?"The words hit me square in the chest, because it made sense in a way I hadn't considered. Trauma could do strange things to supernatural abilities. Block them. Change them. Unlock them."Why are you telling me this?" I asked. "If you're having doubts about Adrian, why come here? Why not just refuse the bonding?""Because I don't know what's real anymore," she said, her voice breaking. "Adrian has been good to me. He saved my life, gave me a home and purpose. What if I'm just letting your theories make me paranoid? What if I'm about to destroy a good relationship because of dreams that might mean nothing?"She looked so lost, so torn between competing truths, that something inside me broke.I'd given up. Had accepted that she wasn't Nyx, that my search was over, that I needed to move forward with my own bon

Chapter 60Alex"That's what we thought at first," I said. "But you tried for months to shift, and nothing happened. The pack tested you for supernatural markers, and everything came back inconclusive. You were something, but nobody could figure out what."She frowned, processing this information. "Then how...""Something happened during training one day," I interrupted gently. "You saw something that made you emotional, and you screamed. But it wasn't a normal scream. It was power, raw and devastating. Every wolf in the compound felt it, their ears bleeding from the force of it. That's when we realized you weren't just human. You were something else entirely.""What?" she asked, leaning forward slightly."We never figured it out completely," I admitted. "But there were theories. They said you were a banshee. Some kind of hybrid that was incredibly rare. The pack's elder said she'd only read about it in ancient texts. "Daisy was quiet for a long time, her gaze distant. I could see he

Chapter 62AlexI was seeing what I wanted to see, projecting a dead love onto a living stranger, refusing to accept that some people really were gone forever."I'll take you back today," I said over breakfast, keeping my voice carefully neutral. "I promised you seven days, but six is enough. I can see this isn't working."She looked up from her barely touched food, something complicated flickering across her face. "Are you sure? We still have one more day.""What's one more day going to prove?" I asked, more sharply than intended. "You don't remember, Daisy. After six days of trying, of me telling you every story I can think of, showing you every place we shared—you still don't remember anything. Because you're not her. You were never her.""Alex...""I was wrong," I cut her off, standing abruptly. The admission tasted like poison, but it needed to be said. "I was desperate and grieving and I saw what I wanted to see instead of what was actually there. You're Daisy, Adrian's betrothe

Chapter 64AlexThe morning after the kiss, I woke to find her sitting by the window, staring out at the forest with an intensity that made my chest tight. She'd barely slept—I'd heard her tossing and turning on the couch all night, caught the moments when her breathing changed and I knew she was awake, thinking, processing.I didn't know what to say to her. Didn't know how to navigate this new territory we'd stumbled into, where she wasn't quite Nyx but wasn't quite not-Nyx either. Where a kiss had changed everything and nothing all at once."I want to go there," she said suddenly, not turning from the window."Go where?" I asked, moving to make something from the woods I'd gathered."Where I came from. Where we came from." She finally looked at me, and there was determination in her gold-flecked eyes. "You've shown me all these places from our time together, but what about before? What about the life I had before we met?"My hands stilled on the piece of wood. "Daisy...""I need to