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She handed it to him. Chatmory took the page, his eyes dropping to the text. In an instant, his stomach plummeted straight through the floor.The wave of nausea hit him with the force of a physical blow. He gripped the edge of the desk, swaying slightly, genuinely terrified he might actually vomit directly into his wastebasket. Right there, printed at the bottom right corner of the sheet in stark, damning black ink, were the numbers that just signed his death warrant: Page 3 of 5.He hadn't given them all the paperwork.In his blind, pathetic, shaking panic to appease those monsters and get them out of his office, he had accidentally dropped a crucial section of Ginny Ellery Blackwood's file. The High Council men were meticulous, paranoid killers. They were going to read the file, realize a page was missing from the middle of the sequence, and assume he had deliberately held out on them. They were going to think he was protecting the Beta’s mate. They were going to come back to this h

The drive home was a frantic, disjointed blur. Elias gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles ached, his eyes darting to the rearview mirror every few seconds. Every pair of headlights that swept across his windshield felt like a silver-eyed executioner tailing him through the dark. By the time he veered into his driveway, his hands were so slick with cold sweat they kept sliding off the leather.He didn't use the garage; the mechanical groan of the door felt like an alarm bell he wasn't ready to ring. Instead, he stood on the porch for a long, shuddering minute, dragging in lungfuls of the biting night air. He tried to let the breeze strip away the cloying scent of hospital antiseptic and the stale, artificial sweetness of his vape pen, but the metallic tang of fear was stuck in the back of his throat.When he finally stepped inside, the silence of the house was oppressive. The only sound was the low, rhythmic hum of the refrigerator and the soft, warm glow of a single lamp in

The crash was spectacular. Elias’s sedan plowed through the rail, tumbling down the three-hundred-foot ravine before hitting the jagged rocks below. Within seconds, a pre-planted incendiary device triggered. A fireball roared up the cliffside, the heat so intense it distorted the air and turned the interior of the car into a blackened tomb.The Council’s SUV screeched to a halt at the broken rail. The two men in tailored suits stepped out, their expressions unreadable as they stared down at the inferno."He was a liability," the lead man murmured, watching the flames consume the medical files they assumed were still in the trunk. "A shame. He was a talented surgeon."They didn't see the dark van slipping away through a narrow, overgrown service road miles above them. They didn't see Jax, standing on a ridge half a mile away, his golden eyes narrowed as he watched them fall for the bait.The van pulled into a secluded, heavily fortified garage on the outskirts of the Blackwood estate.

Ginny’s eyes fluttered open, her lashes dark against her pale cheeks. She blinked, looking from the doctor to the Alphas with a sleepy, confused smile. "What are you all doing?" she asked, her voice a soft rasp. "Staring at me while I sleep? You’re going to give a girl a complex."Before anyone could answer, the sound of bright, infectious giggling echoed down the hallway, followed by the frantic slap-slap-slap of small feet on the polished floor.Sarah, a young guard with a vibrant energy that always seemed to lift the pack’s spirits, came bursting in behind them. She had been a constant fixture in the nursery, helping Leela navigate the early days of the twins before she’d found her own mate, Toby. Though she was newly mated and secretly carrying a little one of her own, she wasn't showing yet, but she moved with that protective, maternal glow that only other mothers seemed to notice."Momma!"Caspian and Briar, now fourteen months old and full of mischief, ignored everyone else. Th

The blue light of the monitors flickered rapidly, reflecting in Jax and Fennigan’s eyes as a cascade of data began to flood the air-gapped system. Rows of genetic code, highlighted in aggressive reds and yellows, scrolled past at a dizzying speed."It’s not just Ginny, and it’s not just the Elementals," Elias said, his voice dropping to an awed, horrified whisper. "Look at the timestamps. This spans fifty years."He opened a folder labeled Project Chimera. The screen filled with grainy, digitized photos of medical charts and anatomical sketches that made Jax’s stomach turn."Damon didn't invent this obsession; he just inherited it and gave it a playground," Elias explained, scrolling through the data. "They were trying to bypass the Goddess entirely. There are files here showing they were attempting to splice regular wolf DNA into human subjects as far back as the late seventies. But look at this section..."He clicked on a sub-file that looked like a series of nursery logs. "They wer