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CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

LENA'S POVKeeping the hoodie was a big mistake which became painfully obvious by the third day.Because right now it was sitting folded carefully on my bed like a physical evidence of my declining mental stability. Every time I looked at it, I thought about Jax carrying me upstairs, his heartbeat against my cheek, the note, and the fact that he apparently noticed that I was cold which was completely unfair.I was supposed to be angry at him, but here I was finding it cute. "You are staring at it again."I nearly jumped out of my skin before spinning toward the doorway.Dante leaned against the frame holding a mug of coffee with the expression of someone who had decided that this was the best part of his morning."Everyone in this estate needs to stop appearing silently in doorways.""You left it open." He stepped inside uninvited, glanced at the hoodie, then looked back at me. His mouth curved slowly."Do not," I warned immediately."I said nothing.""You are emotionally saying som

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

LENA'S POVWhen I returned to my room, it felt different. It felt very much like someone had been inside my room. I realized it the second I stepped through the door.At first, nothing looked wrong. The bed was perfectly made, the curtains stayed half open and the lamp glowed softly beside the couch. Everything looked exactly the way I had left it but something felt wrong.And lately my instincts have stopped being wrong about things.I closed the door behind me slowly but the silence that settled around the room felt different from usual. Heavier and quiet in a way that meant something had just disturbed it.Then I noticed something else. The drawer beside my bed sat slightly open. I shouldn't even have noticed it but I did because I always shut that drawer completely.My pulse dropped.I crossed the room carefully and pulled the drawer fully open. Everything inside it had been completely thrown upside down like someone had been searching through my space, looking for something and

CHAPTER THIRTY THREE

LENA’S POVThat morning when Dante came to my room and said it's time to return home, I didn't know how to feel. To be honest, I've come to enjoy it when it's just me, Jax and Him. There were less guards, less drama, just meetings and fun activities. I guess all that is about to change now. Dante drove us home with the rest of the gang driving their bikes behind us like our bodyguards. The estate we drove into still remained the same. It looked less like a home and more like a military compound.Tall black gates surrounded the property completely while armed guards patrolled every visible corner. Cameras rotated slowly above the walls and thick steel barriers blocked the main entrance like they were preparing for war instead of welcoming family home.Maybe they were.The second our vehicle approached the gates, security lights flooded the driveway and scanners swept across the car.“Comforting,” I muttered.Beside me, Jax did not even glance up from his phone. “You get used to it.”

CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

LENA’S POVAs early as 4am the next morning, Jax woke me up. He threw me the kitted gear. “Time for your training.”I groaned as I put it on and followed him to the shooting range below the estate.The place was totally hidden, reinforced. Built like the people living here expected war at any moment.Honestly, they probably did because ever since I came into this home, the ones who once feared became fearless. The heavy steel doors opened and a sharp scent of gunpowder hit me immediately.My stomach tightened slightly and Jax noticed.“You nervous?”I crossed my arms instantly. “No.”“You are clenching your jaw.”“I hate that you notice things.” I snapped. One corner of his mouth twitched faintly before he walked further inside.The underground range stretched long and dark ahead of us while security lights glowed softly across the concrete walls.The targets waiting at the opposite end were human mannequins. Of course they were. “You need proper weapons training,” Jax said calml

CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE

JAX'S POVFrom the red dot on my chest to Lena diving in to save me like a super woman all happened in under four seconds.Immediately I saw the red dot, my instinct was to move but Lena moved faster.She slammed into my side hard enough to knock the air from my chest and we hit the concrete floor together as the shot cracked through the range window above us. Glass exploded over the space where my head had been positioned one second earlier.I covered her body with mine immediately. I would rather I get shot than for anything to hurt her. Two more shots blasted the air, fast and calculated.Then silence.I stayed down for three full seconds before lifting my head. The laser was gone and the angle suggested it was a single shooter, elevated and facing the east. The window was narrow which meant that they shot from a distance. Professional.Only Kingshade can move like this. "Talk to me," I said roughly against her hair. "Are you hit?""No." Her voice came out shaky but controlled. "

CHAPTER THIRTY SIX

LENA'S POVAfter three days of Jax keeping his distance and trying to pretend that I didn't exist, he finally decided that it was time for us to go somewhere. He had been watching me and I knew it. I saw how his eyes darkened when my wolf rising up to the surface. How he gave me an intense look when my eyes flashed gold. Now we were standing at the edge of the forest behind the estate when Jax said it was time. This was what I had been dreading for three weeks."Right now?" I looked at the trees stretching dark and endless ahead of us. "Tonight?""Your wolf has been pushing against you since the attack." He watched me carefully. "If you keep suppressing it, the next shift will not be controlled.""And you think now will be?""I think you are ready. You have to learn how to control your shift."The certainty in his voice was the only thing that kept me from turning around and walking straight back inside.I exhaled slowly. "What do I do?"Jax stepped closer. "Stop fighting it. That i

CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN

LENA’S POV“You are absolutely not coming.” Jax snapped at me. I crossed my arms immediately. “You brought me downstairs already. It is too late to pretend that I have options now.”Jax looked one second away from developing another stress headache.“That was before Dante told me the warehouse might be armed.”Dante raised one hand calmly. “In my defense, I specifically said heavily armed.”“Oh good,” I muttered. “That definitely sounds safer so I'm coming.”Minutes later we were standing inside the underground operations room beneath the estate while maps and surveillance images covered the large digital screen behind them.The warehouse sat near the industrial district at the edge of the city. Old, abandoned and definitely suspicious.Apparently that described ninety percent of our current problems lately.“We intercepted Kingshade movement there three hours ago,” Dante explained while zooming in on the building layout. “Possible weapons transfer.”“And possible trap,” Jax added co

CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT

LENA’S POVSomething was wrong with Vivienne. The feeling had lived inside my chest ever since the midnight phone call.Every smile felt rehearsed, every kindness felt calculated, and every question carried hidden blades beneath it.But now, after discovering that Blackthorn had a leak, I could not stop thinking about her.Which was exactly why I was currently following Jax’s terrifying mother through the estate hallway at one in the morning like someone auditioning for a future murder documentary.Vivienne moved quietly despite the heels. She was elegant, controlled and dangerously calm.The estate remained mostly dark around us while security lights glowed softly along the walls but I stayed far enough behind not to be noticed.Vivienne turned sharply down the east corridor afterward and my stomach tightened immediately.‘Restricted wing. Interesting.’That part of the estate remained locked most of the time, even Dante barely went there.Vivienne reached the security door and typed

CHAPTER THIRTY NINE

LENA’S POV The estate became unbearably quiet after the argument. Silence that sat heavily in the air every time Jax entered a room and every glance between us felt sharp now, controlled and careful. And somehow that hurt worse than the shouting. Three days had passed since the Kingshade symbol incident in Vivienne’s room and Jax had barely spoken to me unless it was absolutely necessary. But he watched me constantly. I could feel it I noticed it across the dining table, from the hallway balcony, during guard shifts outside the training grounds, he was always there. Watching and distant. To be honest, It was starting to drive me insane. The tension between us had somehow become worse after the threat which kept ringing and replaying itself in my head. “Talk about my mother like that again and I will forget you are a woman.” The words should have made me hate him. Instead, they just made me angry enough to want answers. Which was exactly why I cornered him outs

CHAPTER FORITY

JAX’S POVSomeone had entered Lena’s room inside Blackthorn estate.This was the most heavily secured property in the city and somehow no cameras caught it.No guards saw anything and no alarms was triggered which could only mean one thing.Someone inside the estate was helping them.That realization felt like poison in my chest while I stood inside the security room watching her hallway footage replay across six different screens again, and again, and again. Still nothing.Lena’s hallway remained completely empty all night. No movement, no breach, no visible intruder.Impossible.“Sir,” one of the guards said carefully behind me, “we already checked the internal feeds twice.”“Check them again.”“We did.”I turned slowly toward him and the guard immediately looked like he regretted existing.“Then check a third time.”“Yes, sir.”Good.Fear kept people sharp but unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.I dragged one hand through my hair before staring back at the frozen footage agai

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