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Chapter 22 Cassian's POV"Alpha. The Luna has been missing. It's been two days now."After asking about the Luna for the umpteenth time, that was the news I heard. The words slammed into me like a silver blade to my chest. My vision blurred for a split second."What do you mean… missing?"Adrian shifted his weight, eyes downcast. "Before you became unconscious… no one knows exactly when it happened. Her room was torn apart… the furniture was smashed, we found blood on the sheets. Some warriors swear she was taken. But the elders…" He swallowed hard. "They're claiming she abandoned her post and left willingly."My blood turned to lava. She left?"Why would the elders say that?" Elara, my Luna, the woman carrying my heir… she knew the consequences of breaking our deal."She left willingly," I repeated, voice rising into a growl that rattled the windows. "She's pregnant with my pup. She wouldn't dare leave."Adrian cut in, his voice barely above a whisper. "She filed for divorce, Alpha.

Chapter 24Cassian's Pov"Any news on Eliza?" Adrian was furiously working on his system now, his fingers on the keyboard harshly. But I didn't seem to care. Eliza never left the pack. She wasn't found in the CCTV camera either."Not yet, Alpha. There isn't a trace as to where she is. From the footage, she wasn't taken away with the Luna, so it's either she is in the pack or someone killed her. She probably must have seen something."I paced the room now, my boots leaving imprints on the Persian rug… a rug my father had once stood on when he told me about the prophecy. I was fourteen… fourteen when I killed the man. But I had blamed it all on my dad and never took the curse seriously.My mind slowly went to Elara. Does she know she was carrying twins? I'm not sure… else, it would have been hinted at in her notes notes I found at the doctor's office.I had to find her fast and save her and the pups from the impending dangers of the curse. Despite the AC running at full blast, sweat

Chapter 26 (Dual Pov)Eliza’s Pov (Elara's Gamma)"No, no, she can't be dead. Elara can't be dead."The words scraped out of my throat. For the first time I've spoken since the night I was captured, my own voice sounded foreign to me.It was raw and shredded from hours of screaming in this dark room with no one. And now Seris just told me my Elara, my Luna and best friend—the only family I had left—was dead? No. She couldn't be dead. The Moon Goddess wouldn't allow it. The same goddess who had watched my parents burn in the Shadow Pack raids and had let me crawl out of the ashes at nine years old with nothing but a heart full of vengeance. She wouldn't take my only surviving family, Elara, too.I pressed my forehead against the bars of the cell. The chains were eating deep into my wrists. Time had stopped meaning anything in this place where I'd been locked in for days. The only markers were the candles burning low, the smell of brewing herbs and blood, and the occasional howl of some

Chapter 28Cassian's POVI had been standing at the edge of the cliff for three hours, watching the search parties come up empty-handed for the third day in a row. The river below churned over rocks that had seen a thousand years of blood and rain. There was no sign of a body or a vehicle. There was no sign of an accident.My phone buzzed. It was another update from the east quadrant. They had gotten nothing, the west quadrant too, nothing.I had to confirm it myself, before storming Alpha Rowan's pack with the accusations that he had my Luna.I got the messages from the human world border, but it was the same thing. No signs of force entries or breakouts by any humans or wolf.Adrian stood by my side, staring down the river."Alpha. It's like she vanished into smoke." I nodded. I wanted to throw the phone into the ravine. I couldn't rely on my vision anymore.I had vividly seen Seris locked in a strange room, but the next minute she was in her room, what if it was the same thing for

Chapter 30 Elara's Pov A bag slammed over my head. The impact hit me, and I woke up with a start. But my eyes were too heavy to open. No matter how hard I struggled, they wouldn't budge.Cold seeped into my bones. Wherever I was, it was cold. Or was I dead?Marcus. He had stabbed me with a silver dagger. I wasn't supposed to survive it. "You're awake." A voice suddenly said beside me. At that moment, my eyes forced open on their own.When they finally focused, the world swam. I saw gray – gray sky, gray trees, everything was gray – and then it slowly resolved into a face. A woman. Beautiful, with tangled hair and strange, knowing eyes."Where am I? Who are…" My throat closed around the words. I tasted blood and wolfsbane in my saliva. I turned with the speed of lightning and spat it out."Easy." She pressed a flask to my lips. Water. Cold and sharp. I drank until she pulled it away."You've been unconscious for six hours. The poison should have killed you by now. But here you are."