All Chapters of The Rise Of The Last White Wolf: Chapter 281 - Chapter 290

Raiden’s POV I hadn’t slept. I hadn’t even tried. After everything that happened yesterday, there was no way I was going to close my eyes and pretend everything was fine. I spent most of the night watching Traci and our sons, waiting for something to change. But… Nothing did. The marks on the boys stayed exactly where they were. The dark markings covering Traci’s stomach had stopped spreading sometime during the night, but they hadn’t disappeared either. They were still there, dark against her skin, looking far too much like the markings covering our sons. I checked on all three of them more times than I could count. Every time I looked at the boys, their little chests were rising and falling normally. Their heartbeats were strong. They were sleeping peacefully, completely unaware that everyone around them was terrified about what those markings meant. Traci had managed to sleep for most of the night. She needed the rest after giving birth to two babies, and I wasn’t about to wake

Raiden’s POV A couple of days had passed since the night everything changed, and nothing had happened. My marks hadn’t returned. Neither had Kieran’s or Theron’s. We had watched the boys constantly, waiting for some sign that something was wrong, but they had given us nothing to worry about. They ate, they slept, they cried when they were hungry, and they seemed perfectly content with everything around them. I couldn’t actually believe it. After living with the curse for so long I was used to pain and my anger flaring. But now… I wasn’t waiting for the curse to strike again. I still found myself checking my arms sometimes, almost expecting to see those marks appear against my skin. But every time I looked, there was nothing there. Traci had spent much of the last two days going through the old journals. She had been determined to find out whether the curse could return or if what happened to me was permanent. Tonight, she was sitting across from me near the fireplace with on

Zayden’s POV We’d been back home in the palace for six months now. It was hard to believe how quickly those months had passed. It seemed like only yesterday we had been carrying our newborn sons through the palace doors, terrified that spiders may return and bite one of them. Or the curse would return. Now there wasn’t a trace of it. Raiden’s marks never returned, and neither did Kieran’s or Theron’s. The boys had grown faster than any babies I had ever seen, but then again, they weren’t ordinary babies. They were White Wolf babies, and they were already showing just how different they were. At six months old, they were toddling around the palace. They still fell every once in a while, because their little legs hadn’t quite caught up with how quickly they wanted to move, but they were far more advanced than any six-month-old should have been. And we had learned that their abilities were developing just as quickly. Kieran had fire. Theron had ice. We had discovered their healing a

Raiden’s POV I was sitting behind my desk with Zayden across from me while Kael and Ryker stood near the other side of the office. We had been going over the last few things that needed to be handled before the tournament, making sure everything was in place. Kael had a list in his hand, and Ryker was going over the security details with him when I suddenly felt Traci reach for me through the mind link. “Raiden.” I immediately focused on her. “What’s wrong?” The answer came almost instantly. “The boys just did something.” My entire body tensed. “What did they do?” She took a deep breath. “They were walking back toward the vehicles with Corbin and Marge. Corbin has Kieran, and Marge has Theron. One of the warriors stepped out of one of the SUVs, and both boys turned toward him. Then both of them raised their little hands.” I exchanged a quick look with Zayden. “What happened after that?” Traci hesitated for a second before answering. They both twinkled their fingers and said, “

Raiden’s POV After the mind link with Traci ended, Zayden and I knew there would be a problem. We rushed out there to take care of the situation, or at least to see if anything was going down. I almost made it to Traci when I saw Edward reach into his pocket. Something fell onto the ground. The small packet landed at Edward’s feet, and for one second, nobody moved. Then Kael stepped forward. “Oh, what do we have here?” Edward looked down. His face changed immediately. Kael bent and picked up the packet carefully, making sure not to disturb whatever was inside. He held it away from his body and looked at me. “Take it,” I said. “Get it tested as soon as possible.” Kael already knew what to do and headed toward the palace without another word. Edward suddenly turned, trying to move in the opposite direction. “Stop him.” The warriors surrounding us reacted instantly. Two grabbed Edward before he could get more than a couple of steps away. He fought against them, twisting hard enou