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Chapter 222

Ember's POVI was halfway down the stairs when the bedroom door opened.Charlotte came out first.She had her hair down and she was in clothes that suggested she had put them on recently rather than having been in them all morning. She stopped when she saw me on the stairs and her expression ran through several things quickly before it settled on the managed version."Where have you been?" she said.I looked at her."That is not a question you get to ask me," I said. I kept moving down the stairs."You have been gone for days," she said. "Nobody knew where you were.""Correct," I said. I reached the bottom of the stairs and picked up my bag from where I had set it when I came in. "Nobody knew where I was. That was the point.""Rita was worried—""Rita was not worried," I said. "Rita was inconvenienced by not being able to report my location to whoever she reports it to." I held Charlotte's gaze. "Those are different things."Charlotte looked at the bag on my shoulder."You are taking

Chapter 223

Ember's POVEthan stepped forward.Not dramatically — the specific calculated movement of someone who had decided that proximity was the tool available and was using it. He came off the bottom stair and positioned himself between me and the front door, not blocking it exactly, just occupying the space in a way that was designed to require acknowledgment.I looked at him."You are not going to tell your father anything," he said. His voice had the flat certainty he used when he had decided on a position and was not going to move from it. "You are going to take your bag and go back to wherever you have been and this conversation is going to be the end of it.""Is it," I said."You do not want to make this complicated," he said."I did not make anything complicated," I said. "I came to collect my things. You are the one standing between me and the door.""I am having a conversation with you," he said."You are attempting to intimidate me," I said. "Those are different things and you know

Chapter 224

Charlotte's POVThe front door closed.Charlotte stood in the hallway and listened to the specific quality of the silence that followed it — the particular silence of a house after someone has left it with the upper hand.She had not had the upper hand.She pressed her lips together and looked at the closed door and ran the conversation back through her head the way she ran everything back through her head when she needed to assess it properly. Ember's voice, even and direct and entirely unmoved by anything Ethan had said. The specific way she had looked at him when he stepped forward — not the way Ember used to look at things that frightened her, the old version, the one Charlotte had learned to read over years of living in the same orbit.Something was different.Charlotte could not identify the specific nature of the difference. Only that it was there. That the girl who had left this house two days ago with a bag on her shoulder and a bruise on her cheek was not the same girl who h

Chapter 225

Ember's POVKnox had told me about the hills at dinner.Not the full explanation — the shape of it. That there was a place the wolves went on full moons when they were near home. Not the abandoned building approach, not the carefully managed solitary arrangement he had been using at school. Something older than that. A place that existed specifically for the purpose."I want to show you," he had said."Tonight?" I said."The moon is almost full," he said. "Close enough. The timing is right." He held my gaze. "You should see it before the semester starts. Before we go back and it becomes the managed version again."I had looked at him across the dinner table with Marcus and Lauren on either side of them and James at the end, and I had understood what he was offering. Not just the place — the visibility of it. Showing me something that was fully his, in the way he had promised when he said somewhere I have never taken anyone."After dinner," he had said."After dinner," I had agreed.--

Chapter 226

Ember's POVKnox moved.Not the careful movement of a wolf being deliberate — the full speed of something that had made a decision and was executing it completely. He went into the tree line in the direction Ethan had run with the specific momentum of a predator who had a target and a distance advantage and intended to close both.The sound of him moving through the undergrowth reached me for a few seconds — branches, the ground, the specific passage of something large and fast through a space not designed for speed. Then it faded. He was further away than sound traveled easily and moving further still.I stood on the path.Ethan.With a camera.Not a phone camera — a proper one, the kind that captured detail, the kind that produced images that were not the grainy uncertain quality of a phone in the dark. He had been in those trees long enough to get what he needed and he had been there specifically because someone had told him where to be.Charlotte.Or whoever Charlotte reported to.

Chapter 227

Ember's POVThe waves slowed.Not stopped — slowed. The training did what it could after the initial break and what it could was enough to bring the waves from overwhelming to manageable, which was the distinction that mattered. Manageable meant I could breathe through them. Manageable meant I was still on the path and still present and still thinking clearly, if slowly, about what had just happened.Knox shifted back somewhere in the tree line.I heard it — the sounds of it, which I now knew, and then his footsteps on the path coming back to me.He crouched beside me.He had the jacket he had left at the edge of the path before the shift — he put it around my shoulders without asking because the asking was unnecessary."I am sorry," he said.I looked at him."I calculated the moon wrong," he said. His jaw was tight — not at me, the specific tension of someone who had made an error and was accounting for it honestly. "I checked it this morning and I thought we had more time. I was wro

Chapter 228

Knox's POVMarcus called him in at eleven.Not a knock — a knock would have suggested a request. Marcus opened the study door and said Knox's name and the tone of it was the specific tone that meant come now and come prepared.Knox had been sitting with Ember until her breathing had settled and the waves had spaced out far enough that James said she could sleep. He had watched James run through the post-episode assessment — the questions, the specific checks, the methodical working through of a situation James had handled before and approached with the same patient competence he brought to everything.She had fallen asleep with Mira on the bed.Knox had looked at the door for a moment.Then Marcus had appeared in the corridor.The study was the same as it always was — the desk, the chair that had been his grandfather's, the shelves with the specific books that Marcus kept in the specific order that had never changed in Knox's memory. Marcus sat behind the desk. Knox sat in the chair a

Chapter 229

Knox's POVJames was in the kitchen when Knox came through.He had not gone to bed — James rarely went to bed early when there was a situation in the house, and Knox had understood from the first week that James's version of rest was considerably more flexible than most people's. He was at the table with a cup of tea and his phone and the specific alert quality of someone who had been waiting."Marcus wants you," Knox said.James stood without asking questions.They went back to the study together.Marcus was at the desk. He had pulled a file from somewhere — the physical kind, the kind he kept for things that required physical records rather than digital ones. Knox did not look at it directly."Sit," Marcus said.They sat.Marcus looked at Knox with the expression he had when he had decided the managed version of a conversation was finished and the real one was beginning."The anonymous notes," he said. "The ones sent to your room at school.""Yes," Knox said."You told me about them

Chapter 230

Knox's POV "I am sorry," Knox said. Marcus looked at him. "For the managing," Knox said. "For deciding what you received and when. For not giving you Ethan's name the moment I suspected him." He held his father's gaze directly. "I thought I was protecting the situation. I was making it worse." He paused. "I understand that now and I am sorry." Marcus held his gaze for a moment. "Apologies are accepted when they are followed by different behavior," he said. "Not before." "Yes," Knox said. "I know." "Then show me the different behavior," Marcus said. "Starting now." Knox held his gaze. "The camera," Knox said. "Whatever Ethan has on it — I will get it back." "We will get it back," Marcus said. "I need to be the one who handles Ethan," Knox said. "Directly. Not through the pack, not through channels he does not know about. He knows me. Whatever conversation retrieves that camera needs to come from me." Marcus looked at him. "That is not—" he started. "He is connected to Emb

Chapter 231

Ember's Pov He told me everything.Richard Graves. The name, the history, the twenty years of motivated hunter activity that had been building since the death of a wife whose circumstances the official record did not accurately describe. The photographs on Ethan's camera and where they were going and what Marcus had said about twenty-four hours.I sat in the bed and listened to all of it.I did not interrupt.When he finished I held it for a moment."Ethan's father is the one behind everything," I said. "The notes, the doctor, the organized network.""Yes," Knox said."And Ethan took those photographs for him tonight," I said."Yes," Knox said."Did you know?" I said. "Before tonight. That Richard Graves was the source.""James suspected it," Knox said. "The confirmation came tonight when Marcus heard the name."I held his gaze."And the camera," I said. "You could not get it."Something moved through his expression. The specific quality he had when he was being honest about a failur

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