Celeste's POVElijah pulled a crisp new card from his pocket, holding it out to me with a faint, mischievous glint in his amber eyes. "I opened this account with your information. You keep it. The password is your birthday."I didn't reach for it. Instead, I studied him, my wolf-sense on edge. Stock trading wasn't a game anyone could play, let alone master. It required skill, experience, and more than a little insider knowledge. Even then, wealth wasn't guaranteed. Yet Elijah had done all that, and in such a short time, he'd amassed a fortune that even Callen, hailed as Moonviel City's business prodigy, would envy.Rumors from the kidnappers had hinted he came from the capital, a place crawling with wolves of every stripe, cunning and dangerous. To thrive there required more than talent-it demanded instinct, ruthlessness, and vision. Elijah had all three, I realized, and yet he had chosen to remain here with me, in this small, unremarkable corner of Moonviel City.I still didn't take
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