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Chapter 21: Nyx's Nightmare

POV: Nyx (First Person) “THUD!!” I hit the ground hard and found myself on the floor. My heart was going so hard I could feel it in my jaw. My clothes were soaked through. My throat felt like I'd been screaming. I hadn't been screaming. I would have heard myself. I pushed up onto my hands and knees, then sat back against the side of the bed and just breathed. The room was dark, still and exactly as I had left it. Nothing moved. Nothing was wrong. Except my hands were shaking. I pressed them flat on my thighs and stared at the far wall until the shaking stopped. It took longer than I wanted. I had no idea what kind of dream I just had. That was the part that unsettled me most. I was used to bad dreams, I had a catalog of them. I had come out of this with nothing but the feeling. No scene I could name. No person I recognized. Just the residue sitting in my chest like something had reached inside while I was unconscious and moved things around. I stayed on the floor and
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Chapter 22: Pressure Points

POV: Lucian (1st Person)I summoned her to my study at dusk.I saw that she had annotated some pack records without my knowledge. That was a bold step but that was not why i called her. it wasn't like the annotation in the pack records actually mattered. It was a minor correction on border patrol rotations sharp, accurate, and infuriatingly better than what my own analysts had written. That wasn’t the reason I sent the order though.The real reason was simpler and far more dangerous. I needed her in a room with meKeal was calling out to her and this time i didn't control it. i wanted to explore what it wanted with the woman i swore to hate and break. When she walked in, the air changed. Her scent hit first. Warm skin, defiance, and that faint trace of something that made Kael slam against my ribs like a chained beast. She wore a simple dark dress that clung just enough to remind me exactly what she looked like underneath silk. She stopped three steps inside the door, chin high, ey
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Chapter 23: Night after tension

POV: Nyx (First Person)I said it.I actually said it.I lay on my bed fully dressed, staring at the ceiling, and replayed the moment for the fourth time with the specific horror of someone watching themselves make a decision they cannot take back. His hand on my chin. His mouth close enough that I felt his breath. His eyes dark and furious and wanting, and I had looked straight into all of that and said exactly what I was thinking.*The one where you pretend you don't want to fuck me every time I walk into a room.*Out loud. To his face. Mara was absolutely no help. She was warm, smug and practically purring in my chest like she had gotten exactly what she wanted, which made one of us.I pressed both hands over my face.Why did I say that. I knew why. That was the problem. I knew the exact moment it happened, the moment he leaned in with his hand braced on the desk beside my hip and said *I might forget the plan* in that low ruined voice, something in me stopped calculating and jus
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Chapter 24: Don't Go(Part one)

POV: Nyx (First Person)I was on the floor before I was fully awake.That was the thing about this one. The others had pulled me out slowly — a gasp, a jolt, the gradual return of the room around me but this one threw me. One moment I was inside it and the next I was on the cold stone floor of my bedroom with my back against the bed frame and my hands shaking so badly I could not make them stop.Blood.That was what this nightmare had that the others did not. Everything about the nightmare was the same but this time there was blood everywhere. On the floor, on my hands, spreading in the dark in a way that had no source I could identify. I could not move nor could I stop it and Mara was screaming somewhere so deep in my chest that the sound had no way out.My breath was shaky, uneven and fast. My heart was throbbing.I pressed my back harder against the bed frame and tried to count. Four counts in. Hold. Four counts out.I made it to two before my breath shattered again.“Bang” I heard
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Chapter 25: Don't Go 2

POV: Lucian (1st Person)I was walking back to my chambers when the scream tore through the corridor.Not a cry or a gasp. A raw, broken sound that ripped straight through my chest and made Kael slam against my ribs like he wanted to tear free.I didn’t think.I just ran.My boots slammed against the stone floor, coat flaring behind me, heart pounding so hard I could feel it in my throat. Every instinct I had spent the few weeks chaining down roared to life at once. Protect, reach and fix.I didn’t know why the fuck I was doing this.But I didn’t give a damn.Her door was closed but I didn’t knock. I shoved it open hard enough that it bounced off the wall.Nyx was on the floor beside her bed, back pressed to the wall, knees drawn tight to her chest. She was shaking violently, sweat plastering strands of dark hair to her neck and forehead. Her eyes were wide, unfocused, still trapped somewhere inside whatever nightmare had dragged her under.For one frozen second I just stared at her.
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Chapter 26: Morning After Softness

POV: Nyx (First Person)I knew before I opened my eyes.His scent still lingered deeply in the room which means he had stayed in the whole night. Right beside me. I sat up and looked at the chair beside my bed. The cushion held the shape of him. I stared at it for three full seconds and then I got up and put my back to it because looking at it was doing something to my chest that I refused to examine.The fury came fast and clean and I was grateful for it.I was furious at myself. That was the first and loudest. *Please don't go.* I had said that out loud in a shaking voice, with both hands holding him like I was four years old and afraid of the dark, to the man who had told me he would make me curse every day I spent here. I was also furious at him for staying. That should have been simple. He should have left. Walking out would have been the cold, correct thing to do. It would have fit every version of him I had catalogued since I arrived. But instead he had pulled a chair to my
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Chapter 27: The third Threat

POV: Thorne (Limited Third Person)He was in the middle of a border rotation briefing when the study door opened without a knock.Thorne turned.Nyx walked in with the specific quality of a woman who had somewhere to be and this was the stop she was making on the way there. Not rushed or rattled. She was dressed simply, hair back, face giving nothing away, and she crossed the room toward Lucian's desk. She did not look at Thorne once.He simply did not register as a variable in whatever she had come here to do. In twelve years of working beside Lucian Crane he had been in rooms with pack members, councillors, rival Alphas and visiting dignitaries. He had never been so cleanly looked through by someone who was not trying to look through him.She placed a folded piece of paper on Lucian's desk and said nothing.Lucian looked at it. Then at her. He picked it up and read it. Thorne watched his face with the attention he reserved for moments when the information mattered and what was in h
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Chapter 28: Kane Arrives

POV: Nyx (First Person)He arrived mid morning with no formal procession, No advance guard making noise about his importance. Just a sleek traveling carriage, two personal attendants, and Vesper Kane stepping onto the Crane estate's front steps.I watched from the upper corridor window.He looked exactly as he had at the gathering weeks ago. Silver haired, impeccably dressed, moving with the gracious unhurried ease. Lucian met him at the steps. They shook hands with familiarity and Kane smiled with the warmth of a man who genuinely liked the person in front of him.Everything about him was perfect.That was the problem.Mara went quiet the moment I spotted him. Not the alert sharpness she used for threats. Something older and more instinctive. I filed it and moved away from the window.By afternoon Kane had already made himself useful.That was the word everyone used by dinner. *Useful.* He had requested a full security review within two hours of arriving, framed as routine High Coun
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Chapter 29: Lunch with Kane

POV: Nyx (First Person)He had chosen the east terrace.Of course he had. Open sky, manicured grounds visible in every direction, the kind of setting that said *nothing to hide* while simultaneously ensuring every conversation was exposed to anyone walking the upper corridor. A table set for two, good china, fresh flowers. The whole architecture of a casual lunch that had been carefully designed to feel undesigned.I sat down, smiled, picked up my napkin and told myself, two hours. You have survived worse rooms than this.Kane arrived exactly on time. He sat across from me with the warmth of someone genuinely looking forward to this, poured my water before the staff could reach it, and asked how I had slept."Well," I said. "Thank you."He smiled like he believed me.We moved through the opening mechanics of the meal with the smooth ease of two people who were both skilled at this. He asked gentle questions. How was I adjusting to the estate's rhythms. Had I found the grounds to my li
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Chapter 30: First Hate-Sex

WARNING: 18+ CHAPTER!!!POV: Lucian (1st Person)I watched them for forty minutes. I should not have been watching at all. I had reports, border reviews, an estate to run, a High Council visitor to manage and approximately forty things that required my attention more than the east terrace did.But I watched them or HER anyways like a fool. I saw the smile she gave him.That sweet, careful curve of her lips across the table while Kane spoke to her like she was something precious. Like she belonged to the pack instead of to me. The image burned behind my eyes the entire afternoon.I didn’t know why it fucking bothered me.I should not have been watching at all.She was supposed to be a tool. A means to an end. The woman I would break for what she took from me.But that smile that real, unguarded flash of warmth she had never once given me, made something ugly and hot twist in my gut.Kael pushed hard. *Mine.*“Fuck, get a hold of yourself Lucian” I growled under my breath, slamming the
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