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The Pack Sees It

LENALet me tell you what I see.Because somebody needs to say it out loud and it might as well be me.I see everything in this pack house. Not because I'm nosy… well, not only because I'm nosy. But because I have been here for years and I know how this place breathes and I know when something has changed.Something has changed.It started the morning after the kidnapping.I came down to breakfast and found Zaden in the kitchen.Not passing through the kitchen. Not picking something up on his way somewhere else. Actually in the kitchen. Standing at the counter with a mug of coffee. Looking out the window.I stopped in the doorway.I had never once seen that man stand in a kitchen like he had nowhere else to be.I looked at the window he was looking out of.The garden.She wasn't even out there yet. It was early. She wasn't there.He was looking at an empty garden.I turned around and walked back to my room and stood there for a moment.Then I said out loud, to nobody "Oh. Oh wow."The

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Beast Mode

REINAI had never seen him shift before.That sounds strange given that I had been living in a pack of werewolves for months. But shifting was something they did away from the house. Away from me. Like they had collectively decided I didn't need to see that part of it yet.Tonight was different.Tonight Zaden asked me to come on the pack run.Not in a warm way. Not an invitation exactly. More like he appeared in the kitchen doorway while I was making tea and said "There's a run tonight. You should come."I stared at him. "A pack run.""Yes."I looked at my tea."Okay," I said.He looked faintly surprised that I agreed that easily.Honestly so was I.The forest at the edge of Cole territory was different at night.Darker. Bigger. The kind of dark that had layers to it, the darkness between the trees and then the deeper darkness further in where the light didn't reach at all.The pack assembled at the tree line. Thirty wolves. Some I knew by name now. Some I was still learning. All of t

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Her Hand

ZADENI carried her all the way to the house.She didn't argue after the first thirty seconds.I think she understood that arguing was not going to work tonight. Not after what I had just seen. Not after those three lines of blood on her arm that were doing something to my chest that I was managing very carefully one breath at a time.She was injured.On my territory.Under my watch.I was not putting her down.Clara met us at the door.One look at Reina's arm and she was already moving to get the first aid kit from the hall cabinet and warm water"East sitting room," she said. "Light's better."I carried Reina to the east sitting room.Set her down on the couch.Clara put the kit on the table and opened it and started laying things out."I can do it," I said.Clara looked at me.Then she put the kit down, picked up her cloth and her warm water, handed them to me, and walked out quietlyReina watched me pull the kit toward me."You don't have to" she started."I know," I said."Zaden"

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In Front Of Everyone

ZADENThe letter from Elder Miriam arrived Monday morning.Emergency council session. Noon.I read it once.Set it down."Call the session," I told Damian. "Full council. Every senior warrior. I want the room full."Damian looked at me carefully. "You want witnesses.""I want everyone," I said. "Every person in this pack who has an opinion about my wife's position here. I want them all in that room today."Damian said nothing for a moment.Then he picked up his phone.I walked into the council room at noon exactly.The room was full. Twelve elders. Ten senior warriors. Damian at my right. Every seat taken and people standing at the back.Good.I sat at the head of the table.I didn't speak.I looked around the room slowly. Every face. Every person. I took my time. Let them feel it. Let the silence sit until it had weight.Nobody said anything.Nobody moved.Then Miriam stood.She was the oldest elder. Sharp. Experienced. Someone I had respected for years."Alpha," she said. "Thank you

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What He Said In That Room

REINAI stood at the back of that room for a long time after everyone left.Just standing there.The chairs empty. The table cleared. The room quiet.His words still in the air.Do not make me choose between that respect and my wife.My wife.He said my wife.In a room full of people. In front of the elders and the warriors and everyone who had ever looked at me like I didn't belong here.My wife.I pressed my hand flat against the wall.Breathed.Then I went to the garden.The garden always helped.I didn't even know what I was doing when I got there. Just crouching in the soil. Hands in the dirt. Letting my body do something familiar while my head tried to catch up with what I had just heard.Lena found me twenty minutes later.She didn't say anything at first. Just sat on the stone border with two mugs of tea and handed one to me.I took it.We sat quietly for a bit.Then Lena said "I heard what he said.""How?" I said. "You weren't in the room.""Cade told me." She wrapped both ha

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Run

SOFIAI almost didn't notice.That was the scary part.She seemed completely normal.Maya. My study partner for three years. The person I called when I was stressed about exams and she called me when she was stressed about boys and we had never once had a reason not to trust each other.She texted me at seven.Come study at mine. I made pasta.Normal. Completely normal.I grabbed my bag and went.I noticed something was wrong when I got to her door.I don't know what it was exactly. Something in the air.Maya's apartment was never quiet, she had a roommate and a loud TV and neighbours who argued through the walls.Tonight it was silent.I knocked.The door opened.It wasn't Maya.A man I had never seen before. Big. Wrong smile. The kind of smile that didn't reach anything above the mouth."Sofia Castillo," he said.My stomach dropped.He knew my name.I ran.I didn't think about it. Didn't decide. My body just moved, down the corridor, down the stairs, out the building door before he

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When She Arrived

REINAI was standing in the entrance hall when the car pulled through the gates.I had been standing there for forty minutes.Lena had tried to get me to sit down. I couldn't sit down. I stood at the window and watched the driveway and told myself over and over that Sofia was fine, she was in the car, she was safe, she was coming.It didn't help.Not until the car actually stopped.Not until the door opened and she stepped out.I was through the front door before she reached the steps.She saw me and her face did something and then we were just… holding on.Both of us. In the middle of the entrance, her bag dropping somewhere, my hands in her hair checking her face checking her arms checking everything while she was saying I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine and I was saying nothing because I couldn't.I just held on.She let me.For a long time she just let me."I'm okay," she said eventually. Into my shoulder. "Reina. I'm actually okay.""I know," I said."You can let go now.""In a minute,"

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The Bracelet At Midnight

ZADENI couldn't sleep.Nothing new about that. I had not been sleeping well for months.But tonight was different. Tonight the restlessness was like something pressing from the inside and getting louder and I was running out of ways to turn the volume down.I gave up at midnight.Got up. Went to my office. Sat at my desk.Opened my laptop.Closed it.Stood up. Went to the window. Looked at the dark courtyard below.Sat back down.My wolf would not settle.That was the thing.For months his behavior had been…pressing. Urgent. Focused in the direction of the east wing in a way I had been managing by simply refusing to examine it too closely.Tonight it was different.Tonight he wasn't pressing.He was certain.There's a difference. Pressing is wanting something. Certain is knowing something. And my wolf tonight had the specific energy of an animal who had already made up his mindI didn't know what he knew.I didn't know why tonight felt different from every other night.I just knew I

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It Was You

REINAI went to his office to ask about Sofia.That was all.Just a simple question about whether Sofia could stay for another week. Whether it was safe. Whether Zaden thought the situation was stable enough.A simple question.I knocked.No answer.I knocked again.Still nothing.I pushed the door open.He was asleep at his desk.Still in yesterday's clothes. Head resting on his folded arms.I almost left.I should have left.But I stood in the doorway for a moment just, looking at him.Because I had never seen him like this before. Zaden Cole, Alpha, the most controlled man I had ever met in my life, asleep at his desk like a person. Just a person. Tired and human and completely unguarded in a way he never was when he was awake.Something in my chest did something quiet.I stepped inside.Walked toward the desk to leave a note instead.And then I saw it.It was sitting right there on top of his papers.A thin silver chain.Small moon charm.I stopped walking.My heart stopped with m

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