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Chapter 81Darius POVSomething was wrong with Celeste all day.She kept checking her phone every few minutes‚ pacing between rooms without settling in any of them‚ starting sentences and then cutting herself off halfway through as if she changed her mind about what she was going to say. I gave her space because after last night I knew better than to push. But I watched her from a distance and my gut kept telling me something significant was coming.When she finally came to find me in the early evening‚ she was pale. Her hands were clasped together in front of her so tight that her knuckles were white‚ as if she was physically holding herself together."Come with me‚" she said.I stood up without asking questions and followed her down the hall to one of the sitting rooms at the back of the house. She stopped at the door and turned to face me."Sit down and wait here‚" she said. "I need to go get something.""Celeste‚ what's going on?""Just wait. Please."She left and I sat on the cou

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Chapter 82Darius POVI couldn't take my eyes off him.Ash had moved on from my knee and was now on the other side of the room pulling cushions off an armchair one by one and dropping them on the floor. Each time one landed‚ he looked at Celeste with this wide grin as if he had just accomplished something incredible. She nodded at him every time and said‚ "Good job‚ baby‚" and he went right back to pulling the next one.He babbled while he worked. Not real words mostly‚ just strings of sounds mixed with the occasional "Mama" and "no" and "dis one" as he pointed at things. He rubbed his eyes with his fist when the cushion was too heavy and made a frustrated noise before trying again with both hands.Every single thing he did felt like a gift I didn't deserve.I watched Celeste with him and I could see three years of solo parenting in every movement she made. She knew his rhythms without thinking about it. When he wandered too close to the edge of a table she shifted her body to block i

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Chapter 83Celeste POVI left them in the sitting room. Aurora was on the floor with Ash‚ carefully stacking blocks and then letting him knock them down while she clapped and told him he was a genius. Darius was watching from the couch with that same wrecked expression he'd been wearing since the moment I walked in carrying our son.They would be fine for a few minutes. Aurora had appointed herself Ash's personal guardian and she was taking the role very seriously.Theo was outside leaning against the car with his arms crossed. He had Ash's overnight bag at his feet along with the small backpack that held his favorite stuffed wolf and the blue blanket he couldn't sleep without. When he saw me coming through the front door‚ he straightened up and grabbed the bags.He handed them over without meeting my eyes.The silence between us was heavy in a way that had nothing to do with anger. This was something else. Something that hurt in a different way.Theo had been my anchor for three year

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Chapter 84Darius POVRylan knocked twice before walking in. He closed the office door behind him and dropped a folder on my desk."We have a problem‚" he said."Miranda?"He blinked. "How did you know?""Because Miranda is always the problem." I leaned back in my chair. "What's she doing?"Rylan opened the folder and spread out a series of notes. "She's been visiting the servants' quarters at least three times a week for the past month. Asking questions about Sienna. Her schedule‚ her habits‚ who she talks to‚ where she goes‚ who visits her.""Go on.""She's also been seen near the restricted wing." He paused to let that land. "Twice last week. She didn't get in‚ the guards turned her away both times‚ but she was there. And she wasn't just passing through because the restricted wing isn't on the way to anything.""Elena‚" I said."That's what I'm thinking." Rylan crossed his arms. "She wants access to her daughter and she's trying to figure out a way to release her.""What else?""Sh

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Chapter 85Celeste POVI noticed things. I had always noticed things.It was a survival skill I developed early‚ growing up in a house where Miranda controlled every interaction and later as Darius's unwanted wife where one wrong step could mean public humiliation. I learned to read rooms the way other people read books. Body language‚ eye movements‚ the way someone's breathing changed when they were lying. I caught all of it because catching it kept me alive.So when the same servant started showing up too often‚ I noticed.Her name was Petra. She worked in the cleaning crew for the family wing and she had been assigned to the nursery corridor about three weeks ago. At first it was nothing unusual. She cleaned‚ she restocked towels‚ she emptied bins. Normal work. But then she started lingering.She would take too long wiping down the hallway table outside the nursery‚ always when I was inside with Ash. Her eyes would track through the open door‚ watching me with a focus that went bey

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Chapter 86Darius POVRylan was already talking before the door fully closed behind him."She got in‚" he said. "Miranda visited Elena in the restricted wing forty minutes ago."I looked up from my desk. "How? The guards had orders.""She went through the service entrance on the east side. The lock hasn't been updated since last month's rotation. She had maybe fifteen minutes before the patrol circled back." Rylan dropped into the chair across from me. "The guards caught her leaving and escorted her out but the damage is done.""What did they hear?""Fragments. The listening device in the corridor picked up about sixty percent of the conversation." He pulled out his phone and read from his notes. "Miranda told Elena about Sienna. About the baby arriving. About the mole that washes off with water. She said‚ and I'm quoting here‚ 'She's not who she says she is and I can prove it at the gathering.'"I clenched my fist under the desk."Elena's response?""She asked Miranda if she had phot

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Chapter 87Celeste POVThe great hall was full.Every seat was taken and people stood along the walls where the chairs ran out. Ranked wolves‚ elders‚ council members‚ pack officials. All of them gathered for the quarterly meeting that Darius had called two days ahead of schedule. I stood beside him at the front in my role as contract Luna‚ dressed in a simple dark blue dress with my fake mole perfectly in place and my posture as composed as I could manage.My heart was hammering so hard I was sure the wolves closest to the front could hear it.Somewhere in this crowd‚ Miranda was sitting with her ammunition loaded and her trigger finger ready. I didn't look for her. I kept my eyes forward and my hands clasped loosely in front of me and I breathed the way Theo taught me to breathe when the panic crept in. Slow and measured and counted.The gathering proceeded normally at first. Darius addressed territory updates from the eastern border. Rylan gave a report on seasonal supply routes. O

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Chapter 88Darius POVI turned to Miranda.She was still standing in the fifth row‚ gripping the chair in front of her with both hands as if the floor might disappear beneath her. Her face had gone from white to blotchy red and her eyes were darting around the room looking for allies‚ looking for someone to back her up. She wasn't finding any.I didn't shout. I used the cold‚ measured tone that every wolf in this pack knew. The tone that meant someone was about to lose everything they had."Sit down‚ Miranda‚" I said.She didn't sit. Her legs seemed locked in place."I said sit down."She sat.I looked out at the gathered wolves and began. "What I'm about to share with this room is not accusation. It is documented evidence‚ collected over multiple weeks‚ verified by independent sources‚ and supported by witness testimony."I nodded at Rylan. He moved along the front row handing sealed envelopes to each of the seven elders. They opened them in silence‚ pulling out stacks of papers and

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Chapter 89Celeste POVI made it to the private quarters before my legs gave out.I didn't collapse or fall or do anything dramatic. But the moment I closed the door behind me‚ my body started shaking in a way I couldn't control. My hands‚ my arms‚ my shoulders‚ all of it trembling as if the temperature had dropped thirty degrees.It wasn't fear. I knew what fear felt like and this wasn't it.This was something else. Something I didn't have a name for. The accumulated shock of being defended. Of standing in a room full of people and having someone else fight for me. Of watching the man who once destroyed my life systematically dismantle the people who tormented me without asking for credit or performance or gratitude. He just did it.For five years I fought alone.Every battle. The blood extractions where I lay on that table with needles in my arms and nobody questioned why. Aurora's fake illness that kept me chained to a medical schedule designed to drain me dry. The doctored photogr

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Chapter 90Celeste POVThe restricted wing was on the far side of the estate‚ past the main corridors and down a set of stairs that led to a section most pack members never saw. Two guards stood at the entrance and they straightened when they saw Darius approaching. He nodded at them and they stepped aside without a word.The hallway beyond was quiet and plain. No decorations‚ no windows. Just doors with heavy locks and the faint smell of cleaning supplies. Darius walked slightly ahead of me and I followed with my heart climbing steadily into my throat.We stopped at the last door on the right. Darius looked at me."You're sure?""Open it."He pulled a key from his pocket and unlocked the door. It swung inward and he stepped in first‚ blocking my view for a moment before moving to the side.Elena was sitting on a bed against the far wall. The room was small but not cruel. A bed‚ a desk‚ a chair‚ a bathroom through an open doorway to the left. Clean clothes folded on the desk. A tray o

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