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Shattered~LUNA POV ~Hospitals smell the same no matter where you go. They have the scent of cleaning products, sadness, and a quietness that is felt in places where people are waiting to hear life-changing news. My heels made noise on the floor as Draven and I walked to the Pediatric wing. I took steady breaths and kept my face calm, like I had practiced for when I needed to enter a tough situation.I heard them before we even turned the corner.Selene's voice carried down the hall like she had been holding since before I arrived. "I don't care what the doctor says, Damon. This is YOUR fault. If you hadn't let that woman tear this family apart, none of this would have happened...."We turned the corner and the whole picture came into focus.The entire Blackwood family waiting like they had staged it. Selene was walking back and forth, feeling anxious. Mira was on her phone, likely writing down the story. Damon was sitting in a chair, looking tired and helpless, like he was used

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Walls and Warfare~LUNA ASHFORD~I woke up in a room that wasn't mine.Black sheets. High ceilings. Big windows showing a city view that looked a lot like mine but a little different, making me feel odd inside. The room smelled like pine and smoke, and something else that made my wolf wake up before I was fully awake.Draven's penthouse.I sat up. My dress from last night was wrinkled, my heels placed neatly beside the bed in a way I definitely hadn't done myself. I sat there for a moment just piecing it together.....the hospital, Kai's face, the parking lot, the way I had completely fallen apart in the arms of a man I had told myself three times this week I wasn't going to trust.My jaw tightened.I was trying to grab my heels when the door opened and Draven came in with a tray. It had black coffee with one sugar, toast, and eggs. It was simple and perfect, which somehow made it feel worse."I'm leaving," I said.He set the tray down without looking at me. "After breakfast.""Now

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Mine~LUNA POV~The Black Diamond Gala was just like it sounds.Dark. Expensive and dangerous.Every power player in the city was moving through that ballroom like they were on a chessboard.....tech billionaires, pack Alphas, underworld kings, all dressed in black and pretending they weren't figuring each other's worth with every handshake and smile.I moved through them like I owned the floor.Because I did.My gown was black and backless, the split running dangerously high up my left thigh. The ruby necklace sat at my throat. My phoenix tattoo was fully on display, rising up my bare spine in full view of the entire room.I told myself I wore the necklace because it matched the dress.My wolf had a completely different opinion.I ignored her."Ms. Ashford." A tech billionaire named Harrison blocked me near the champagne table. "I've been trying to get a meeting with you for three months.""You have five minutes," I said. "Use them carefully."He did. He was smart and didn't waste ti

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The Surprise~LUNA POV~ The ride home from the gala was silent.Draven drove, gripping the wheel tight. I just sat there, hands in my lap, watching the city fly by. I was thinking about how Ryker's face changed when Draven came out.His confidence just vanished. He gave up and quickly left into the night.Which was smart of him."He sent that message about Kai," I said."I know." Draven's voice was quiet. "I already have people on him."I looked at him. "You arranged that just now?""While I was walking outside."I turned back to the window.He took care of it before I even realized there was a problem. He didn't make a fuss or wait for praise. It was just finished.My chest felt tighter, like it had been all night.I ignored it.---My apartment at five in the morning was just how I wanted it. Calm. Silent. Tidy. I took off my dress, washed my face, and then sat at my desk wearing a comfy robe. My laptop was open, and my hot coffee was right there.Last night was last night.Toda

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The Storm~LUNA ASHFORD ~Three days.Seventy-two hours of sixteen-hour workdays, back-to-back reports, and a schedule so packed there was genuinely no room left for thinking about parking lots or racing tracks or one tear that had absolutely no business falling.I checked the Meridian Tower window seventeen times.I counted.Okay, I told myself it was about the building. Watching how it affected what I could see. Totally professional.My wolf didn't even bother responding to that. She just sat in the corner of my mind and looked at me like she had run out of patience entirely and was waiting for me to catch up.On the third evening my phone rang. It was Draven.I let it ring a bit. "What?""Come to the roof of your building. Now." He said it calmly."Excuse me" He waited a sec, then he said, "Please." I went completely still.Draven Craven did not say please. I had watched him make tough guys jump back with just a stare. I had watched him walk through a gunfight at the docks like i

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The Enemy of My Enemy~THIRD POV~The office was on the forty-third floor of a building that didn't appear on any city registry.No name on the door. No company listing in the lobby. No security cameras in the elevator. The kind of place that existed especially because the people who used it needed to not exist.Viktor Volkov was at his expensive desk, watching the city, with the patience of a man who had been waiting for exactly the right moment for a very long time.He was not a man who rushed things.He knew that the best surprises were the ones you didn't see coming.His phone rang. His associate confirmed the location.Volkov smiled.Then he picked up a different phone....untraceable, changed after every call.....and dialed.---Damon was on his third whiskey when his personal phone rang.Unknown number.He almost didn't answer. Unknown numbers these days meant journalists, lawyers, or pack elders with more bad news, and he had enough of all three to last him the rest of the yea

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The Bone and The Dog~THIRD POV~The Blackwood mansion felt smaller than it used to.Damon noticed it every time he came back now. The big ceilings seemed small now. The wide hallways felt cramped. The whole house felt like it had given up, but was still trying to act like it hadn't.He closed the front door and stood in the entrance hall for a moment.From the living room, he heard Selene and Mira talking. He knew it was the same worried talk they'd had for weeks, just with different words each night. They were stuck in a loop, getting more and more stressed.He walked in.Selene in her chair by the fireplace, wine glass held so tightly her knuckles had been white for most of the past month. Mira on the couch, phone in hand, scrolling through whatever fresh disaster the internet had delivered today.Aria at the window.She always stood at the window now. Like she was watching for something. Or planning an exit.All three of them turned when he walked in.Selene's eyes went straig

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THE TRAP~THIRD PERSON POV~The text came at 7:43 PM.Luna was in her home office, three screens open, deep in the final layers of a security patch that had been giving her team problems for a week. Her coffee was cold, but she didn't even notice.Her personal phone buzzed on the desk beside her keyboard.She ignored it, personal calls during work hours went to the bottom of the list.It buzzed again.She reached for it without looking away from her screen, intending to silence it. Then she saw the name.It was Kai.She picked it up properly.'Mum come to this location pls come alone I have a secret to tell you' Below the message, a dropped pin. A warehouse district on the east side of the city. Industrial area. Twenty minutes away in light traffic, thirty in the evening rush.Luna stared at the screen.Her first instinct was professional and quick — wrong location for a child, wrong time of night, wrong phrasing. Something felt off about the message, though she couldn't quite say w

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THE TRACKER 1~THIRD PERSON POV~The riddle answer came to Draven in eleven minutes.A map.'Cities but no houses. Mountains but no trees. Water but no fish. A map had all of those things and none of them at the same time....existed everywhere in representation and nowhere in reality, could show the whole world in the palm of your hand.'He called Volkov before the twelve minute mark."Impressive," Volkov said. "Faster than expected.""Location. Now.""Ah." The smile was loud and Intentional. "Not quite yet, Mr. Craven. The riddle was simply the first key. There are three."Draven's jaw locked. "You said....""I said I would tell you her location if you got it right. And I will. All in good time." There was a pause. "For the second key, I'm sending you something now. A file. Encrypted. I do hope you're good with ciphers."The file arrived before Volkov finished the sentence.Draven opened it, his eyes moved across the encryption once and then again. He felt a chill that wasn't from th

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THE TRACKER 2~THIRD PERSON POV~Luna was inside.She was standing at the far end. Her jacket was off, and she had a cut on her cheek. There were red marks on her wrists from zip ties. She was standing straight up.She looked really mad, like she was trying hard not to show it. She had been getting angrier and angrier in that room and was ready to yell at whoever came in.When it opened she turned toward it, already ready to fight.Then she saw him.The ready-to-fight tension left her immediately. Instead, her body changed. An expression crossed her face that she quickly covered up, but he noticed it.She felt relief. It was real and undisguised, gone before she had let herself feel the full effect of it."You found me," she said."You were wearing my necklace." He crossed the room, hands going to her face before anything else, leaning it toward the light. Reading every mark, the cut on her cheek. The bruising starting along her jaw. The wrists. His wolf cataloged every single thi

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