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Chapter 31

IRIS POV: I was still sitting on the edge of the bed when the door opened. Aurelian walked in, dark shirt still open at the collar, his phone in his hand, and his expression completely composed. But his eyes were different. Something was moving behind them that he was working very hard to keep from reaching his face. He looked at me. Then at the television. I had not turned it off. The reporter was still talking, the footage of the smoking building still running on a loop behind her. He crossed the room and picked up the remote from beside me and turned it off without a word. "Aurelian," I said. "I know," he said. "The name they found in the system…" "Was a breach," he said. "Someone used a name to create confusion. It happens." I looked at him. "They said it was the only signature left behind. Nothing else. Just that one name." "I heard you," he said. "You were just on the phone for twenty minutes about your building being on fire, and you're telling me

Chapter 32

IRIS POV: The driver pulled up outside my house just after noon. I sat in the car for a moment before getting out. I got out, and the Rolls Royce pulled away silently behind me. I walked up to the front door. My father was in the sitting room. He was in his chair by the window, the one he always used when he was reading, except he wasn't reading. He was just sitting there looking out the window. He looked better than he had the night he came home. Rested. More like himself. He looked up when I walked in. His eyes went to my outfit. Then to my face. "Sit down," he said. I sat on the sofa across from him. He was quiet for a moment. “You were with him,” Dad said. "He helped us," I said. "You know that." "I know that," he said. "What I don't know is what it costs." I looked at my hands. "I'm handling it," I said. He studied me for a long moment. "Be careful, Iris," he said quietly. "Not because of what he is. Because of what you are," he said. "You have

Chapter 33

IRIS POV: Julie's eyes narrowed. "What's happening?" Sarah and I looked at each other again. "Nothing," I said. "You're lying." Julie dropped her bag on the floor and walked straight to the wardrobe where Sarah was standing. She looked at the dresses laid out on the bed. Then she turned back to me. "Where are you going?" I hesitated. "You remember the night I ran?" I said. "How could I forget?" she said. "It was on every channel." "After I ran… I nearly got hit by a car on the highway." Julie's face changed. "What?" "I'm fine. The car stopped. The man inside took me somewhere safe that night." I paused. "His name is Aurelian." Julie stared at me. "Aurelian." She said it slowly. "The one from the news?" "Yes." She looked at Sarah. "Did you know?" "She told me after," Sarah said. Julie looked back at me. Her eyes went to the jacket on the chair. She pointed at it. "Is that his?" "Yes." She was quiet for a moment. "And now he's taking you somewhere," s

Chapter 34

IRIS POV: I held the card for a moment longer than I should have. Then I folded it, put it back in the envelope, and slipped it into the drawer of my bedside table, face down. "Iris," Sarah started again. "I heard you the first time," I said. She pressed her lips together and said nothing else. Julie was still looking between us with narrowed eyes, but she had learned at some point in her life that when Sarah and I went quiet at the same time, pressing further was pointless. She picked up her phone and went back to scrolling. I picked up the dress and took it to the bathroom. I stood in front of the mirror for a long moment before I put it on. The fabric felt different against skin than it did in my hands. Lighter. Like wearing water. It settled on my body like it had been made knowing exactly where everything was, which, I realized slowly, it probably had. I looked in the mirror. I stood there for a while. Then I opened the bathroom door and walked out. Sa

Chapter 35

IRIS POV: The steps up to the jet were already down when we reached it. The two men who had been standing at the base of the steps simply moved aside when Aurelian approached and that was the whole of the security process. I followed him up. Inside was not what I expected, and I had already adjusted my expectations considerably since this morning. There were no rows of seats. No overhead compartments. No narrow aisle that made you turn sideways to pass someone. The interior was wide and low-lit, cream and dark wood, with seats that looked more like furniture from a very expensive living room than anything that belonged on an aircraft. A long sofa ran along one side. Individual chairs sat across from it, angled slightly, with a low table between them. A man in a dark uniform stood at the far end near the cockpit door. He glanced at Aurelian once, nodded, and turned back. Aurelian gestured toward the chairs without looking at me and sat down on the one closer to the window.

Chapter 36

IRIS POV:We landed smoothly.The island was massive, trees and light and a strip of private tarmac that ended maybe fifty meters from the water.I looked out as we slowed.My heart was already going faster than it should have been.I hadn't paid much attention to it on the jet, but now that we were here and the ground was real beneath us and the jets of other people were visible through the window, it hit me all at once.I was about to walk into a room full of the most powerful Lycans and Alphas in the world.And I was going to do it as someone I was not."You've been quiet," I said inside.My wolf stirred. She had been still since we boarded."I've been listening," she said."And?""There are old ones here," she said. "I can feel them from here, even through the walls of this thing."A pause."Don't let them smell fear, Iris. They'll know before you open your mouth."I exhaled slowly through my nose.There were already jets on the ground outside.Not one or two. Seven that I could c

Chapter 37

IRIS POV:A man came forward to meet him.He was tall and dark-skinned with short grey hair at his temples. He moved slowly and calmly.He looked at Aurelian first.Then he looked at me.My wolf went completely silent inside me."Aurelian," the man said."Caius," Aurelian said.Caius looked at me again. Not unfriendly, but not warm either. He was just studying me carefully."And who have you brought into my house?" he said.I met his eyes."Fiona," I said.He looked at me for a long moment.Then he looked at Aurelian.Then back at me."Welcome to my island," he said quietly.He held my gaze one more second, then turned to Aurelian, and the two of them moved slightly apart, their voices dropping low.I stood where I was.That was when I felt it. Someone watching me. Not Caius, someone else.I turned slowly.The woman in deep gold was closer than I expected. She was standing maybe four meters away, holding her glass at her side, looking directly at me.She was striking. Light eyes, almo

Chapter 38

IRIS POV:From afar I spotted a young man near the entrance of the room.He had his back to us so I couldn't see his face, but the moment he turned to respond to someone beside him, my whole body started shaking.I hadn't even seen his face clearly and yet something inside me collapsed.My wolf went quiet instantly. Limp and completely still.I grabbed Aurelian's hand without thinking, pressing it harder than I meant to, and he felt it immediately. He didn't say anything. He just slowly changed direction, moving left, guiding me away from the flow of people heading into the room until we were in the corner and everyone else had moved past us."What is it?" he asked."I don't know," I said, and my voice came out shaky in a way I hadn't expected. "I really don't think I should have come here."My hands were trembling inside his and I couldn't make them stop.He looked down at them. Then he looked up at my face and something shifted in his expression, like he understood exactly what was

Chapter 39

IRIS POV:"Lycans emit an aura," Aurelian said. "Constantly. Everywhere we go."He leaned back against the stone sink and folded his arms."We learn to control it over time so it doesn't affect certain people. The day I met your friend, I held it back completely.""So you held it back when you first met me too?" I asked."That's exactly my point, Iris." He said. "I didn't. I wasn't holding anything back that night. And what shocked me was that you stood firm. You didn't buckle, you didn't submit. In all my years I had never seen that from a wolf."I stared at him."You knew what your so-called aura could do and you kept coming closer anyway?" I said. "What were you thinking?"The corner of his mouth moved. "I kept coming closer because I needed to be sure. Inside the car you felt nothing. I had to test it.""Wow," I said."You won't understand what that means," he said."Of course I won't, I don't shoot aura out of my skin like you do." I said.He almost smiled at that."But there's s

Chapter 40

IRIS POV:We walked through the door.The weight of the room hit me before I saw the faces.It wasn't like before in the corridor. That had been one Lycan from a distance. This was a room full of them, closed in.The air was thick with something that pressed against my skin from every direction at once. My legs wanted to slow down. My chest wanted to tighten.But I kept walking.Aurelian moved beside me at the same pace, completely unbothered, like this air was normal to him, which it was.Immediately, all heads turned as we entered.We had barely taken five steps inside when a man separated from a nearby group and came toward us.He was tall and broad with dark skin and close-cut hair, and he moved slowly with so much confidence.He stopped directly in front of us and smiled. It was a warm smile. Genuine even."So it's true," he said, looking at me. "You really are as beautiful as I heard, Fiona."He reached out and took my hand gently, turning it over and lowering his lips to the ba

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