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Chapter 91

ARIA For one long second the wolf's muscles stayed coiled, teeth still bared, every part of him promising the attack we'd both braced for. My heart pounded so hard I could feel it in my throat. Trenton's arm stayed locked in front of me, the blade steady in his hand, and I waited for the leap that would start the fight. But it didn't come. Instead the growl in the wolf's throat began to falter, breaking apart into something uncertain, almost confused. His head tilted to the side, slow and strange, his pale eyes locking onto me instead of Trenton. The snarl faded from his lips. His ears, which had been pinned flat against his skull, lifted just slightly, twitching like he was trying to understand something his own instincts hadn't given him words for yet. "Trenton," I whispered. "Something's wrong. He's not—he's not attacking anymore." "I see it," Trenton said quietly, though he didn't lower the blade even an inch. "Don't move." The wolf took one slow step back instead

Chapter 92

ARIAThe moment the rogue's footsteps faded completely into the trees, Trenton turned to me with his jaw tight and his eyes hard in a way I hadn't seen since the night of the sex tape scandal."We're going home," he said. "Right now.""Trenton, wait." I grabbed his arm before he could turn toward the horses. "We came here for a reason. The treaty, the diplomatic mission, all of it. If we just run back now, doesn't that make us look weak? Doesn't that prove whatever they're already scared of?""I don't care how it looks," he said, his voice sharp with something close to panic. "He said word would move fast. That means people are already talking about you, Aria. People we don't know. People who might not bow the way he did. I am not walking you deeper into rogue territory while every pack between here and the mountains starts whispering about the First Blood."I wanted to argue. Some stubborn part of me wanted to push forward and prove I wasn't afraid, the same way I'd pushed forward in

Chapter 93

ARIAAfter the council finally let us go, Elder Marlow asked to speak with us privately, and Trenton and I followed him down a quiet hallway to a small study lined with old books and a single flickering lamp. He closed the door behind us and gestured toward two chairs facing his desk."Sit," he said. "There is more you need to know. Things I did not say in front of the council."My stomach twisted with a fresh wave of nerves. "More bad news?""Perhaps," Marlow said, lowering himself slowly into his own chair with a tired sigh. "Perhaps only more truth. I am not always certain there is a difference."Trenton reached over and took my hand without either of us really thinking about it, his fingers wrapping tight around mine like he already knew I was going to need something steady to hold onto."Tell me," I said. "All of it. I don't want pieces anymore."Marlow nodded slowly, folding his hands on the desk in front of him. "The First Bloodline was never simply about strength," he began. "

Chapter 94

ARIAThe alarm bells woke me before I even understood why I was already sitting up in bed, my heart pounding, every sense in my body screaming that something was wrong. Trenton was moving before I was, throwing on clothes in the dark, his face tight with a focus I hadn't seen since the night of the rogue attack."Stay behind me," he said, grabbing his blade from beside the bed. "Something's happening. I can hear it."Then I heard it too, distant at first, shouting and the clash of metal, growls that didn't sound like anything from our own pack. My stomach dropped straight through the floor."We're under attack," I whispered.We ran through the hallway together, and the palace that had felt so calm and familiar only hours before now looked like a nightmare, guards rushing past us with weapons drawn, servants screaming and scattering toward the lower halls, the sound of fighting growing louder with every step we took toward the courtyard."They're not rogues," Trenton said, his voice sh

Chapter 95

ARIAThe palace felt like a different place the morning after the attack. Guards stood at every door, every window, every hallway that used to feel open and safe. The broken pillar in the courtyard had already been covered with cloth, but I still saw it every time I closed my eyes, the crack running through the stone, the man crumpled beneath it.Trenton hadn't slept at all. I found him in the small records room off the main hall, papers spread across the table in front of him, his hair a mess from running his hands through it too many times."You should rest," I said, stepping inside and closing the door behind me."I can't," he said, not looking up. "Not until I understand how they knew, Aria. Not until I know exactly where we're weak."I walked over and sat across from him, watching him flip through page after page of names and schedules. "Knew what exactly? That we were coming back that day?""That you'd be here," he said, finally lifting his eyes to mine. "Think about it. They di

Chapter 96

ALPHA LOCKWOOD I was sitting in my study going over grain reports from the eastern farms when I remembered telling Trenton to double the guard rotation along the northern fence line. I remembered it clearly, the way he'd nodded and said he'd handle it himself, the way the evening light had come through the window behind him while we talked. So when I passed him in the hallway later that week, I asked him how the northern rotation was holding up. He looked at me like I'd spoken a foreign language. "What northern rotation?" "The one I asked you to double," I said. "Last week. We talked about it right here in my study." Trenton's brow furrowed, not with guilt, but with genuine confusion. "Father, I haven't been in your study in almost two weeks. I've been buried in training for the championship. I don't remember that conversation at all." I laughed it off at the time, told him I must be thinking of someone else, some other meeting buried under the weight of everything else I c

Chapter 97

ALPHA LOCKWOODI spent the next several nights buried in records, telling myself each time that this would be the night I finally proved my own mind wrong. I pulled hockey reports from the archive room, medical files from the healer's office, old letters from the palace records, anything that might hold a thread I could pull to unravel this strange fog settling over my thoughts. I expected to find nothing. I expected clean records, ordinary seasons, a son who had simply lived his life the way any young wolf might, without tragedy, without the grief I kept carrying around like a stone in my chest.Instead I found something far stranger.Buried in Trenton's medical file, tucked between routine notes about a minor sprain from early in the season, was a single line that made my whole body go cold. It mentioned a shoulder injury, described in careful medical language, severity noted as significant, followed immediately by another entry directly beneath it stating the injury had been reclas

Chapter 98

THIRD PERSON Alpha Lockwood sat alone in his study that evening, an old portrait of Aria from years ago propped against a stack of books on his desk. It had been painted not long after her mother married into the family, back when she was still a shy, uncertain girl who flinched at loud voices and kept her eyes on the floor during pack gatherings. He studied the painted face for a long time, comparing it in his mind to the woman he had watched cross the courtyard that morning, spine straight, chin level, eyes sharp enough to cut through a room full of elders without blinking.It was not simply growth. He had watched countless young wolves grow into their strength over the years, and growth had a shape to it, slow and steady, visible in small stages. What he saw in Aria did not match that shape at all. It was as if someone had taken a frightened girl and replaced her, almost overnight, with someone who had already lived through every hard lesson twice.He thought of the way she watche

Chapter 99

ARIAHis question hung in the air between us, heavy and impossible to escape. What did you change? I opened my mouth twice and closed it again, my mind racing through every possible way to answer, every possible way to keep this locked safely inside me the way I had kept it locked away for so long. But looking at his face, worn and frightened and honestly searching, I understood I couldn't lie to him. Not about this. Not to a man who was already carrying half the truth without even understanding what it meant."I can't tell you everything," I said finally, my voice shaking. "Not all of it. I don't know what you'll think of me if I do.""Try me," the Alpha said gently. "I promise you, Aria, whatever you say in this room stays between us until you decide otherwise."I took a deep breath, my hands twisting together in my lap. "Some things were supposed to happen differently," I said slowly, choosing each word like I was walking across thin ice. "Bad things. Things I knew about before the

Chapter 100

ARIAI found Trenton still in the records room that evening, the same table covered in papers, the same tired look on his face that hadn't really left since the attack. I closed the door behind me and leaned against it for a second, gathering my courage before I said what I needed to say."Trenton," I said. "I need to tell you something. About your father."He looked up right away, something in my voice making him set down the paper in his hand. "What happened?""He confronted me," I said. "Privately. He's been having memories, Trenton. Memories of things that never happened here. He remembers you dying. Poisoned, during the championship match, exactly the way it happened to you in my old life."Trenton went very still, his face draining of color. "He remembers that? How is that even possible?""I don't know," I admitted, sitting down across from him. "But it's real. He's been writing it all down in a notebook, trying to figure out if he's losing his mind. When he asked me straight ou

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