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Chapter 212

Ember's POVWe lay on the bed looking at the ceiling for a while after he said it.Then I said, "You should listen to them."Knox turned his head to look at me."Your parents," I said. "The search. The priest, the Lycan world, all of it." I kept my eyes on the ceiling. "They are not wrong. Finding your fated mate is—" I stopped. "It is important. For the curse and for the pack and for everything your father has been building that you are going to inherit." I paused. "You should be looking.""I am not going to do that," Knox said.I turned to look at him."Knox—""No," he said. Flat. Clear. The voice he used when a decision had been made and the conversation about it was over."It is the right thing," I said."For whom?" he said."For you," I said. "For the pack. For the curse that has been sitting on you since you were twelve." I held his gaze. "You told me about it yourself. The only way through it is the fated mate. The only way the second time stops being a death sentence for the p

Chapter 213

Ember's POV"My whole family has been waiting for it," Knox said.He was still looking at the ceiling. The lamplight on his face made him look younger than the campus version — less managed, less carrying. Just him, in a room, saying true things."My father since before I could understand what fated mate meant," he said. "My mother — she has been waiting in a different way, the quieter way, but it is there. James knows it is the thing that matters most to the pack's future." He paused. "Everyone who knows what I am has been waiting for this specific thing to happen for twenty years.""And you?" I said.He turned his head to look at me."I used to wait for it too," he said. "When I was younger. When the curse was still new and the hope that there was a way through it felt like something worth orienting toward." He held my gaze. "I do not wait for it anymore.""Why not?" I said."Because waiting for a fate you cannot control is a way of not being present in the life you actually have,"

Chapter 214

Ember's POV"Nobody can find out," I said.Knox looked at me."Even if it is true," I said. "Even if everything you believe is accurate and the bloodline traces back and the pieces align the way you think they might align." I held his gaze. "The confirmation requires the second time. And the second time without certainty is—" I stopped. "You said it yourself. That is not a test you run on a belief.""I know," he said."So even with everything," I said. "Even with all of it pointing in the same direction — nobody finds out without risking my life." I held his gaze. "That is the reality of it.""Yes," he said. Quietly. "That is the reality.""So you are asking me to be with you," I said. "Knowing that the answer to the most important question about what we are to each other is locked behind something neither of us is willing to do.""Yes," he said."And you are going to remain optimistic about that," I said.He held my gaze."Yes," he said.I looked at him."That is either very brave or

Chapter 215

Ember's POVThe knock came at eight forty-five.I was already awake — the wolf senses had been pulling me out of sleep earlier and earlier since arriving at the house, the specific quality of a body that had decided sleep was a suggestion rather than a requirement once the morning reached a certain level of light and sound. I had been lying looking at the ceiling for twenty minutes when the knock came."Come in," I said.Knox opened the door.He was dressed for training — the specific practical version of him that I had seen in hockey contexts, functional clothing, shoes that were built for movement rather than appearance. He had the look of someone who had already been up for a while and had used the time.He looked at me in my pyjamas and the dress Lauren had given me folded on the chair."James arrives in fifteen minutes," he said."I know," I said."You need to get dressed," he said."I know that too," I said. I sat up. "Knox, I do not have anything to wear for this."He looked at

Chapter 216

Ember's POVThe session was two hours.By the end of it I understood what James meant by simple is not the same as easy. The selection exercise — choosing one sound and following only that one — had taken forty minutes before it felt like something I was doing rather than something I was attempting. The distinction between doing and attempting was significant. Attempting had the quality of pushing against resistance. Doing had the quality of moving with something.By the second hour I could select and hold a single sound for three minutes without the others pulling me back.James said that was good progress.He said it the way he said everything — without inflation, just accurate. Which meant it was actually good progress rather than the kind of encouragement that softened a less positive reality.We came back through the trees at eleven.Lauren had left water and something to eat on the table at the back of the house, which was the kind of thing Lauren did without being asked and wit

Chapter 217

Ember's POVThe second morning session started at nine.James had been precise about the schedule — nine to eleven, four days a week, with the remote video work filling the gaps. I had slept better than the previous nights, which James said was consistent with what happened when the senses began to settle. Less to process meant the body could actually rest rather than spending the night cataloguing everything arriving through a nervous system that did not know how to close.I came through the trees at eight fifty-five.James and Knox were already there.Not waiting for me — talking. Standing near the center of the space with the specific posture of two people having a conversation they were not performing for anyone, the ease of people who had known each other long enough to speak plainly.I stopped at the edge of the tree line.Not deliberately. I had come through and they had not heard me yet — the wolf movement, the quieter footfall I had been developing without noticing — and some

Chapter 218

Ember's POVI waited until after dinner.Not because I needed the time to prepare — I had known what I was going to say since the tree line that morning. I waited because dinner was dinner and Marcus was at the table and Lauren was asking James about the training program and the conversation was the ordinary surface of a household going through its evening, and pulling Knox aside in the middle of it to confront him about something he had overheard would have made it everyone's business when it was only ours.So I waited.Marcus went to the study.Lauren and James continued a conversation about something related to the pack territory that I did not have enough context to follow properly.I touched Knox's arm as we left the dining room.Just that. He looked at me and I held his gaze and he understood.We went into the corridor."You heard us this morning," he said. Not a question."Yes," I said."How much?" he said."All of it," I said. "The delay. The lone wolf situation. James saying

Chapter 219

Ember's POVWhen he finished telling me the signs I sat with them for a moment.The warmth that came before a shift — not fever, something more internal than that. A pressure at the base of the spine that was different from the moon pressure. The specific restlessness in the hands. The wolf sitting forward in the body, alert, moving toward something rather than simply being present in it.I mapped them against what I had been feeling.None of them.Not yet."Okay," I said."Okay?" he said."I know what to look for now," I said. "That is better than not knowing." I held his gaze. "It is always better than not knowing."He held my gaze."Yes," he said. "It is. I understand that now more clearly than I did yesterday.""Good," I said."Ember," he said."Yes.""I do trust you," he said. "I need you to know that is not in question. The decision I made was about the training, not about whether you could handle difficult information." He held my gaze steadily. "You are one of the most capable

Chapter 220

Ember's POVThe morning session started the same way every session started.James in the center of the space, me at the edge of the tree line, the inventory first and then the selection. The structure of it was becoming familiar in the way that good structures became familiar — not routine in the deadening sense, but reliable. I knew what was coming and what it would ask of me and that knowledge made the asking easier.Today James had set up the smell work. Different from yesterday — more complex, multiple sources introduced deliberately into the space, things brought specifically to create the layered environment that the market exercise was designed to simulate. He had explained it before we started. The principle was the same as the sound work but smell arrived differently — with more emotional weight, more memory attachment, the specific complication of a sense that was more deeply wired into feeling than the others.I stood in the center of the space with my eyes closed.I invent

Chapter 221

Ember's POVI brought it up at breakfast.Knox was already at the table when I came down — he and James had been up earlier than everyone else, the specific early-morning energy of people who had a shared understanding that mornings were for work. Lauren was at the counter. Marcus had not yet appeared, which was unusual, and James explained without being asked that Marcus had a call with someone from the northern pack territory and would be down later.I sat down.I poured tea.Then I said, "I need to go to my father's house today."Knox looked at me over his cup."I have been in the same clothes for four days," I said. "I need more things. Books, some notes I left, my other jacket." I held his gaze. "I cannot borrow Lauren's running clothes indefinitely.""You are welcome to them indefinitely," Lauren said, from the counter, without turning around."Thank you," I said. "But I still need to go."Knox put his cup down."I will come with you," he said."You do not need to—""I am coming

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