198. Completed

🍃 Arria POVFenrir took a sharp turn halfway down the corridor and pushed open the door to his office instead of carrying me to our bedroom.'Absolutely not,' Fiona said, thoroughly offended.Before I could decide whether I was irritated too or simply amused by her outrage, he set me down on the edge of his desk and stepped away.Then he crossed to one of the cabinets, opened it, crouched in front of a lower drawer, and began pulling things out with maddening calm.“What are you doing?” I asked, still a little breathless from the way he had just carried me here.Fenrir didn’t answer immediately.'He kissed us half senseless, carried us off like prey, and then brought us to the office?'I laughed despite myself.'If he gives you work, I am going to—'What?Scream through the mindlink?Manifest?Go on. Tell me.'You! You...'I shook my head indulgently.'You are not supposed to be on their side.'It is all our side.You are just dragging out the inevitable.And just so you know, your s

199. Battle Plan

🍃 Arria POVSeven days.That was all we had left until the full moon.Until the elven invasion.Until the war that would decide the fate of our realm.“Why don’t we attack the palace before the full moon?” one of the Alphas around the table asked.“It would be easier to win without the elves supporting Vaerion and the King, wouldn’t it?” another chimed in.“It makes sense,” several more agreed.“Divide the enemy and defeat one group after another.”A wave of small, approving nods moved around the table.“A prophecy was made a little over a month ago,” I told them. “It stated that on the full moon, the world shall burn.”Uneasiness moved through the room.Several expressions tightened.Then one of the Alphas frowned.“A prophecy? Really? By whom? Werewolves don’t have prophets.”I turned my head toward him.“I see you already know the answer. It was made by an elf,” I pointed out. “So what exactly are you implying?”He shifted uncomfortably beneath my scrutinizing gaze.“It’s just tha

200. For Me

🦊 Melanie POVAron finished presenting the plan for protecting the civilians in case part of the enemy forces attempted some kind of diversion.No one had anything else to add.No objections.No corrections.Perfect.I hated how easily the word came to mind nowadays.“Dismissed.”Fenrir ended the meeting with his usual lack of ceremony.Chairs scraped against the floor.Conversation rose in small clusters as people began filing out of the room.I stayed in my place, waiting for Arria.We hadn’t had a chance to talk properly since they had awakened her wolf, and everything I knew had come secondhand from others.Aron didn’t move either.I turned my head and gave him a critical look.I wanted some time alone with Arria.Alone being the important part.Ever since Aron had returned from his so-called sparring session with Fenrir, he had been attached to me like a shadow.If I went to the school, he walked me there, and when I came out through the gates later, he was already waiting for m

201. Lifeline

🦊 Melanie POVI slammed the bond shut.I couldn’t take another feeling, another thought, another glimpse of something Aron had kept buried beneath that impossible calm.Not now.I didn’t know what to say, so I turned back toward the road and started walking.Aron didn’t ask a thing.Didn’t push.Simply fell into step beside me and walked home in silence.By the time we reached the house, I had convinced myself that work would help.It usually did.The documents I hadn’t finished reviewing about the distribution of medicines were still waiting for me on the table.I sat down, opened the first one, and began reading.But by the time I reached the end of the first page, I hadn’t absorbed a single sentence.My thoughts kept circling back.Again.And again.To everything I had felt through Aron.To everything I had refused to see before.Since the day the court had found him not guilty, Aron had changed the way he treated me.And I...I hadn’t.Not at all.The shared dinners hadn’t matter

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198. Completed

199. Battle Plan

200. For Me

201. Lifeline