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179. Land Six

🦊 Melanie POVWarm.That was the first thought that occurred in my hazy mind.I shifted slightly, wanting to snuggle deeper into the comfortable heaven I had somehow found.Who wanted to wake up anyway?But then something shifted in response to my movement, pulling me even closer to the warmth.My body tensed.My eyes snapped open.At first, nothing made sense.Not the fragments I was seeing.Not my unwillingness to move.Then it all came back at once.Aron.The conversation.The tears that had eventually broken free.My hands covering my face in a stupid attempt to save some dignity.His silence.The distance he hadn’t tried to close, even after claiming that I had never been the problem.Then, finally, my name.Spoken in a tone that had nothing to do with the emotionless man I had known all these months.Carefully, I peeked at him through my fingers.He looked lost.For a moment, that was the only thing that existed.Because it was Aron.He always had a plan.And then, before a sen

180. Paid in Pain

🌘 Fenrir POV“Three,” I counted.Aron's expression hardened.His movements never slowed.“You’re enjoying this,” he noted flatly.“More than you are,” I admitted, already twisting out of the next lock before he could complete it.Aron followed, going straight for my ribs.I blocked.He expected it.Used the momentum of the impact to dip low and sweep for my legs.As if.I jumped.My forearm parried the incoming punch from the right.His shoulder dipped.I sidestepped.The rhythm settled for a while.Good warm-up.But it was taking too long.So when his shoulder lowered...Fine.This one was for Melanie anyway.His forehead slammed into my cheekbone.Hard.Enough to matter.He stepped back.I didn’t touch the bruise.Instead—“Four,” I kept counting.His eyes narrowed.The facade was still there.But the anger was closer now.Almost palpable.“You’re making this insulting.”“I actually expected more damage for Melanie’s pain.”Something flashed in his eyes.A memory, probably.Of her

181. Blind spot

🔥 Aron POVFenrir didn’t let me reach the ground.He caught my good arm and pulled it over his shoulders, taking enough of my weight to keep me upright.We made it slowly toward a fallen tree at the edge of the clearing and lowered ourselves to the ground, backs against the trunk.For a while, neither of us spoke.“I’m sorry about Brielle,” Fenrir said eventually.I didn’t look at him.Every movement hurt.Apparently, though, today was the day to clear the air.“I always knew you had no idea she was my mate,” I told him. “That’s why I came back.”He leaned his head against the fallen trunk.“Not because of orders from Vaerion or Ragnar?”“No.”I took a measured breath.“I know this might surprise you, but I don’t usually go around sharing private things with other people.”“Joking around in this state?” Fenrir asked with flat disbelief. “What a fucking sunshine.”I said nothing.I needed a bed.And probably two or three days of rest before Malik could repair all the damage.“Arria ha

182. Not Alone

🍃 Arria POVI was still in the hospital.Having Alaric with me made things easier.The implanted could feel the pieces of him inside me, and it made them more careful.No one dared even think about attacking me or taking me hostage the way Adelaide had.At the same time, I could feel them better.More clearly.I explained everything I knew about the plant itself.How it grew from whatever we fed it.Good or bad—it depended on us.Most of them had believed they were cursed.Maybe they still did.They were afraid of themselves in the same way everyone else was afraid of them.I had been there.At some point, every one of them asked me something personal.Something they had seen happen to me with their own eyes.I answered every time.Because that was the thing about healing.It required accepting the problem for what it was.Not only accepting the strength that helped you survive it, but also the pain.The desperation.The lowest moments.Only then did strength stop being about muscles

183. Connected

🍃 Arria POV“That’s a good start,” I told Carlos.He nodded.Melanie rose from the chair beside me, and I gave him one last look before turning toward the door.The guards moved with us.I had already crossed the threshold when—“And Luna?”I stopped and turned enough to see him.Carlos was watching me hesitantly.“I don’t know if anyone has told you this already,” he said slowly, “but at some point, the whispers stopped.”I turned fully toward him.“Stopped?”“Changed might be more accurate,” he corrected himself. “I still hear things. But now they’re in your voice.”“What?!”The word escaped me louder than intended.Carlos blinked.“They’re saying good things,” he added quickly. “At first, it was confusing. I thought I was going even crazier than before. But the longer you stayed, the better it got.”Could it be the Command?“What exactly are you hearing?”He thought about it.“Things like... ‘The sun is warm today.’ ‘The flower is finally blooming.’ Or ‘She’s smiling now.’ Simple

184. Heaven

🕷️ Vaerion POVAron had slipped through the squad’s hands once again.Not that they came back to report it.They tried to flee.Useless animals.I made an example of them for everyone to see what betrayal of the Crown meant.They had been rotting in the square for a second day now.The smell was awful.But it carried terror with it.Fear.Exactly what I needed.Aron was back in Oakcrest.On his own, according to the rumors.And Arria was there too.Along with her mate.The mate who was supposed to have been dead long ago but had now become another liability.Fenrir Stronghold.The one true heir of the current bloodline on the throne.But blood alone meant nothing.He would have to come here.Stand before the Crown.State his claim.Take back his birthright in front of everyone.And that would never happen.I knew it.He knew it.The only way Fenrir would ever enter this palace again was by unleashing the curse.It would cost me a considerable number of people just to get close enough

185. An Army

🌘 Fenrir POVTen days until the full moon.Until the portal opened and the elves crossed into our realm, according to the information Arria’s parents had brought us.I looked around the table.It had become considerably larger since the last time we had needed one like this.Stone.Arria.Aron.Melanie.Maximus.Gregory.Keran.Corvus.And then the Alphas.Seventeen of them.Ten small packs had joined us mostly in search of our protection.Their warriors lacked real fighting experience.Packs like theirs rarely faced actual danger because they were rarely considered a threat by anyone.It didn’t matter.They had chosen.We had welcomed them.And their members had been grateful and eager to help in any way we could find useful.For now, much of that meant hard training.The six medium-sized packs were different.They had come with information, resources, and well-trained warriors.Self-confident.Proud.That had caused a few conflicts at first.And required a small demonstration of do

186. Evolution

🍃 Arria POVFenrir’s last words remained hanging over the table as Stone turned to the next page of his report.“The implanted.”He briefed everyone on Keran’s approach to testing the affected people, the healers’ assessments, my own progress, and everything else we had learned so far.Most of the Alphas nodded. They had already seen the changes in the implanted members of their own packs.I was getting good at it.Or, more accurately, my rose was getting stronger. Better.According to Alaric, the plant inside my mind was green now, covered in leaves and even a few flower buds. It was still far too massive to resemble a normal rosebush, but it looked alive and calm.More importantly, it no longer retreated whenever Alaric entered my mind. Instead of searching for some distant corner in the shadows, it remained in the open.That meant a lot.“We are all glad,” one of the Alphas began, then shook his head. “No. We are happy that our people are getting better. Luna Arria is giving us ho

187. Bleeding

🍃 Arria POV“Arria,” Stone called from behind me.I stopped and turned to wait for him.“I’ll walk you to the healing house,” he said casually.Suddenly, I remembered the first time he had offered to walk me somewhere—the school in Newmoon. And, of course, the conversation that had followed about my wish for Alaric to join a pack run.Then his smile after I had eventually agreed to turn it into a pack-bonding night around a bonfire instead.Apparently, walking made it easier for Stone to talk. There had been other walks after that one, but the first had remained the most memorable, not only because the conversation had been specifically about my mate, but because of how carefree Stone had seemed afterward.His behavior was far too similar to Fenrir’s for smiles to come easily, which made every one of them an event in itself.And I knew for a fact that I hadn’t seen one since Adelaide had entered the picture.The silence around the subject had stretched for too long.Finally, here he

188. A Royal Decree

🍃 Arria POVI nodded thoughtfully.“What if she had thrown herself at him in front of Aron?” I asked. “Would it have mattered that she never actually slept with Fenrir because Fenrir would have rejected her?”Stone frowned.“So we’re not talking about Fenrir anymore. We’re talking about some insignificant woman. Why?”He wasn’t going to like the answer.Not even a little bit.“She wasn’t insignificant, Stone,” I pointed out. “She came from an old, powerful noble bloodline.”I saw the exact moment the similarity to his mate hit him.Rage flashed in his eyes, and his chest began rising and falling faster as he fought to keep his wolf under control.I didn’t step back.I simply waited.“Adelaide...” His voice came out in a low growl despite his effort to restrain himself in front of his Luna. “Is nothing like that woman.”“Isn’t she?” I challenged. “At the palace, didn’t she throw herself at my mate right in front of you?”The roar he had managed to hold back until then shook the trees.

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