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Chapter 232

Ember's POV James asked his questions in order. Not quickly — he had the patience of someone who understood that the right information required the right pace, and rushing a person through something they were reaching back into produced less than waiting for them to arrive at it themselves. "Your father," he said. "Is he wolf?" "No," I said. "Completely human. He has never shown anything — no senses, no strength, nothing that would suggest wolf blood." I held James's gaze. "He is the most ordinary human person I know. He works in finance. He travels for business. He has a very ordinary life." "And your mother," James said. "What was her name?" I looked at the trees. This was the part I had always carried in the specific way you carried things that had no resolution — not painfully, not actively, just present. A gap in the shape of a person. "I do not know," I said. James held my gaze. "My father calls her your mother," I said. "Or sometimes her. He has never said her name in

Chapter 233

Ember's POVI pulled my hand away from my sternum.The thing I had noticed was still there — that internal forward-sitting quality, something that had not been present yesterday morning. I held it for another moment and then I set it aside because there was a more immediate conversation happening and it required my full attention."How am I supposed to believe any of this?" I said.James held my gaze."The prophecy," I said. "Savior of the races. Two centuries of waiting." I held his gaze directly. "James, two months ago I was a pre-med student who thought the strangest thing about her life was her stepmother." I paused. "Now you are sitting on a log telling me that an ancient prophecy in the Lycan world might be about me.""Yes," he said."How am I supposed to believe that?" I said. "On what basis. You have told me things that I have accepted because I have had direct evidence of them — the wolf, the senses, the strength. I can lift a wardrobe. I can smell a dead dog from fifty meter

Chapter 234

Ember's POV I held the book in my lap for a moment longer. Then I handed it back to James. He took it carefully and returned it to the bag with the specific handling of something that was not replaceable. "There is something else," he said. I looked at him. "When I was in the Lycan world," he said. "Three months ago, before the semester ended, Marcus sent me there for the mate search. You know that." "Yes," I said. "I was there for four days," he said. "Meeting with the council contacts, going through the records, looking in the bloodlines the priest had already searched." He held my gaze. "On the third day I met someone who was not a council contact." I waited. "Her name is Selena," he said. "She is Lycan — full blood, from one of the older families. She came to find me specifically, which meant she had been told I was there and why." "Who told her?" I said. "The council," he said. "Or someone on it. She had information that suggested a source close to the records." He he

Chapter 235

Ember's POVI did not sleep.Not the restless, turning kind of not sleeping — the wakeful, present, entirely alert kind. I lay in the bed with Mira at my feet and the lamp off and the window showing the dark sky and I was awake for all of it.A sister.The word kept arriving fresh every time I thought I had absorbed it. Not as something dramatic, not as something that required a specific reaction — just as a fact that had not existed in my world before today and now existed in it and had no previous space to fit into.A sister.In the Lycan world.Born of the same mother who had died in the same act of giving birth that had produced me. Growing up on the other side of whatever divide separated the wolf world from this one, knowing she had a sister somewhere in the human world, looking.I thought about my father and the way he never said her name.I thought about the one photograph — the garden, the yellow dress, the woman laughing at something outside the frame. Someone had taken that

Chapter 236

Ember's POVKnox held my gaze for a moment."Where did you come across that word?" he said. "Lycan world specifically."I had prepared for this."One of the books at the training ground," I said. "James leaves materials out sometimes. I picked one up yesterday while he was setting up the exercise and I saw a reference to it." I held his gaze with the specific settled quality of someone reporting something unremarkable. "I did not read much. Just enough to know the phrase existed and to want to understand it."Knox held my gaze."Which book?" he said."I could not tell you the title," I said. "It was not in English."He held my gaze for a moment longer.Then he accepted it.Not entirely — I could see the not-entirely in the small adjustment of his expression. But he moved past it."It is a world we do not need to engage with right now," he said."Why not?" I said."Because it is not straightforward," he said. "The Lycan world has its own politics, its own council, its own very specific

Chapter 237

Ember's POV James stopped talking when the light changed. Not dramatically — the specific shift that happened in the hour before evening properly arrived, the quality of the light moving from the flat afternoon brightness to something warmer and lower. James tracked it the way he tracked everything in the outdoor space, with the peripheral awareness of someone who had spent enough time outside to read the environment without looking directly at it. "We should finish," he said. I looked at the sky. "Yes," I said. We had been on the log for longer than I had registered. The session had happened — the training exercises, the smell work, the selection and holding — and then we had talked and the talking had taken the afternoon in a direction I had not planned for and had not wanted to stop. Ada. Adaeze. The name sat in me now with a weight it had not had before James said it. Not a heavy weight — a real weight. The weight of something that had been a gap in the shape of a

Chapter 238

Knox's POV Marcus was at his desk when Knox came in. Not reading, not writing — sitting with his hands flat on the desk surface and looking at the space between them with the specific quality of a man who had been thinking rather than doing and had been thinking for long enough that the thinking had arrived somewhere. He looked up when Knox came in. "Sit," he said. Knox sat. "Tell me exactly what happened on that hill last night," Marcus said. "From the beginning. Not the accident version you gave everyone at the door. The real one." Knox held his father's gaze. "The moon rose earlier than I calculated," he said. "I had checked the timing that morning and I was wrong about where it was in its cycle. We were halfway up the hill when I felt the shift starting." He held his father's gaze steadily. "I told Ember to stand back and I shifted." "In the open," Marcus said. "On the path," Knox said. "Yes." "With a hybrid who has not yet shifted herself present," Marcus sai

Chapter 239

Knox's POV "I am sorry," Knox said. Marcus looked at him. "For withholding his name," Knox said. "I suspected Ethan from the moment the notes arrived. I had enough to bring you the name and I chose not to." He held his father's gaze directly. "That was wrong and I am sorry." Marcus held his gaze. "Sorry does not retrieve the camera," he said. "No," Knox said. "It does not." He held his father's gaze. "But I will retrieve it. That is what I am telling you. Whatever Ethan has on that camera — the photographs, the evidence — I will get it back before it reaches anyone who can use it." "How," Marcus said. "Directly," Knox said. "I go to him. Not through channels, not through the pack. I go to Ethan and I have the conversation that retrieves that camera." He held his father's gaze. "He knows me. He has history with me. Whatever leverage exists in this situation I understand better than anyone else in this house because I have been in it with him all semester." "And if he refuses,"

Chapter 240

Ember's POVKnox held her gaze."No," he said. "I did not retrieve it."I looked at him."I was gaining on him," he said. "He had a head start and I was closing it. Another thirty seconds and I would have had him." He held my gaze. "Then you screamed."I held his gaze."You came back," I said."Yes," he said."Because of me," I said."Yes," he said. Flat. Final. Not apologetic about it.I looked at the lamp on the nightstand."So Ethan has the camera," I said."For now," Knox said. "James found the location tonight. Ethan is at his father's property. We go tonight — late, when the house is dark." He held my gaze. "I will get it back.""You are certain," I said."Yes," he said.I held his gaze for a moment."Okay," I said."Okay?" he said."I trust you," I said. "Go and get it. Come back."He held my gaze."Come back," he said. Making it a promise."Yes," I said.He went out.I lay back against the pillows and Mira shifted at the foot of the bed and I held the ceiling in the lamplight

Chapter 241

Ember's POVI looked at him."I have never heard any of this before," I said."I know," he said."Two months ago I was a pre-med student," I said. "I did not know wolves existed. I did not know I had wolf blood. I did not know my mother was anything other than a woman who died when I was born and whose name my father never said." I held his gaze. "And now you are sitting here telling me that a two hundred year old prophecy in a world I did not know existed is about me.""Yes," he said."How am I supposed to believe that?" I said. "On what basis. You are telling me things I have no way to verify. I cannot read the Lycan texts. I cannot access the council records. I cannot confirm any of it." I held his gaze directly. "How am I supposed to believe you?"James held my gaze.He did not argue.He did not offer more words.He reached into the bag at his feet.He took out the book.I recognized it immediately — the specific weight and age of it, the dark worn cover, the quality of something

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