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Chapter 251

Ember's POVKnox called three times the next day.I did not answer the first two.The third time I picked up because not answering a third call was the kind of thing that produced a visit and I did not want a visit right now."Ember," he said."I am busy," I said."Are you okay?" he said."Yes," I said."You did not answer my calls," he said."I was in the middle of something," I said.A pause."What did Selena say yesterday?" he said. "After James left."I looked at the window of my room."We talked," I said."About what," he said."About the prophecy," I said. "About the Lycan world. About what needs to happen.""Ember," he said. "She is putting things in your head that—""Knox," I said. "I need some space."He went quiet."From me," he said."From the managing," I said. "From the version of things you think I should have." I held the phone. "Selena is my sister. She has information that is mine by right. And every time I engage with that information you have a response that is abou

Chapter 252

Ember's POVMy father put his cup down."Where did that come from?" he said."I need to know about her," I said. "About Vanessa. Who she was, where she came from, what she was like." I held his gaze. "I am twenty-two years old and I do not know my mother's name from my own father. I found it from someone else."He stared at me."Someone else told you her name," he said."Yes," I said."Who?" he said."That is not the conversation I am trying to have," I said. "The conversation I am trying to have is about my mother and why you have never spoken about her and what you are protecting me from by not speaking about her."My father looked at the table."This is not the right time," he said. "I have just come home. I am tired. There are things to deal with in this house that require my attention first and—""Dad," I said."Ember—""You just got home," I said. "I know that. I waited twenty minutes before I came down because I wanted to give you time." I held his gaze. "But I have been waitin

Chapter 253

Knox's POVThe reports had been coming in for five days.Not all at once — in the specific incremental way that bad news arrived when it was trying not to be noticed. One report, then two days of quiet, then two more, then three in a single day. Marcus had been receiving them in the study with the door closed and James had been in and out and Knox had been watching his father's face at dinner and reading the thing that was sitting underneath the controlled surface of it.Dead wolves.Not natural deaths. Not accidents. The specific kind of death that left marks that the pack members who found them recognized immediately and reported immediately and that Marcus read and filed and was now sitting on enough of to require a gathering.He called it on a Tuesday.No announcement to the wider house — just Knox and James and two pack members who had driven in from the territory boundary, arriving at the house in the late afternoon and going immediately to the study.Knox was in the cave by nin

Chapter 254

Knox's POVMarcus did not answer the question.Knox watched him not answer it.Not deflect — not the managed redirect of a leader who had decided the information was not appropriate for the room. Something different. A pause that was a fraction longer than Marcus's pauses usually were, followed by a movement into different territory that was smooth enough to be intentional but had the specific quality of someone who had decided to go around something rather than through it."What concerns us immediately," Marcus said, "is the security of our territory boundaries. I am asking each of you to run the perimeter checks twice weekly rather than once. Any unusual activity — human presence in pack spaces, unfamiliar vehicles on the boundary roads, anything that does not belong — reports to James within twenty-four hours."He talked about the communication protocol.He talked about the specific boundary sections that required additional attention.He talked about the pack members in the wider

Chapter 255

Knox's POVMarcus was quiet for a long time.Not the processing quiet — the other kind. The kind that came from a person who had held something for so long that releasing it required more than just deciding to release it. The kind that had weight in it from the holding itself.Knox waited.He had learned from his father that some silences required waiting and some required pressing and the skill was in knowing which was which. This one required waiting. He could see that in the quality of it — Marcus was not deciding whether to speak. He was finding the beginning of something that had a complicated beginning."My father," Marcus said finally.Knox held his gaze."His name was Daniel," Marcus said. "He was alpha before me for twenty-three years. He was a good alpha — not a perfect one, not the kind of leader who never made mistakes. But good in the ways that mattered." He held his hands flat on the desk. "He made me swear something before he died.""What?" Knox said."That I would main

Chapter 256

Knox's POVMarcus talked for a long time.Knox did not interrupt.He sat across from his father in the lamplight of the study at midnight and he listened to the history of his pack the way history should be heard — completely, without the managed version, without the parts removed that someone had decided were too difficult."Edward Graves started with intelligence," Marcus said. "The same way his son is starting now. He built a network of informants — humans who lived near pack territories, people who had noticed things they could not explain and had found someone willing to pay for the information." He held Knox's gaze. "He spent three years building that network before he moved. Three years of patience.""And then he moved," Knox said."And then he moved," Marcus said. "The first attack was on a pack family in the northwest — a wolf named Daniel Cooper, his human wife, their two children." He held Knox's gaze. "They were labeled betrayers.""By the hunters," Knox said."By both sid

Chapter 257

Knox sat in the chair and the pieces arrived.Not gradually — all at once, the specific simultaneous arrival of things that had been separate and had suddenly found their connection.Ember in the clinic with numbers on a monitor that the doctor had never seen before.Ember lifting the wardrobe higher than Knox had.Ember's wolf senses developing faster than James had expected and further than James had predicted.The shift that had not come. The delay that James had described as unusual, that Knox had been worrying about, that Selena had said would resolve in the Lycan world.Not a delay.Something else entirely."The hybrid," Knox said. "What does the change look like for them? The waking up. The process of it."Marcus held his gaze."Different from a full wolf," he said. "The wolf traits arrive but they arrive in a specific sequence. The senses first, then the strength, then—""The strength that exceeds a full wolf," Knox said.Marcus looked at him."The hybrid's strength," Knox sai

Chapter 258

Knox's POV The lights were on at Ember's house. All of them — ground floor, first floor, the specific fully lit quality of a house that had someone new in it and was still adjusting to the presence. Knox parked on the road outside and sat for a moment with the engine off and thought about what he was going to say when the door opened. He did not come up with anything complete. He went to the door anyway. He knocked. Footsteps inside. Not Ember's — heavier, the specific tread of someone larger moving through a familiar space. The door opened. A man in his fifties. Tall, the specific build of someone who had been athletic at some point and had carried the posture of it forward into the years that followed. Dark eyes that assessed things quickly — Knox recognized the quality of the assessment because it was the same quality Ember had, the same direct taking-in of a situation before responding to it. Ember's father. "Yes," he said. "My name is Knox Rivers," Knox said. "I am a f

Chapter 259

Knox's POV"You are in danger," he said.Ember held his gaze."Not the Ethan kind," he said. "Not the Charlotte kind. Something older and more organized and more specifically pointed at you than anything we have dealt with this semester." He held her gaze. "I need you to hear all of it.""Tell me," she said."My father told me the history of the pack tonight," he said. "The war that happened thirty years ago. The wolves who bonded with humans — they were labeled betrayers. The hunters went after them specifically. And their children." He held her gaze. "The hybrid children were killed alongside their parents."Ember held his gaze."Every one they could find," he said. "Except one."She was very still."The one who survived," he said. "Born at the end of the war. Mother died at the birth. Father took the child into the human world." He held her gaze directly. "The prophecy of the surviving hybrid is not just a Lycan world story, Ember. It is the reason the war stopped. Both sides pulle

Chapter 260

Ember's POV"You are lying," I said.Knox held my gaze."You are doing exactly what you always do," I said. "You have found a version of the situation that makes Selena the problem and you are presenting it as fact because it serves what you want." I held his gaze. "You want me away from her. You have wanted that since she stepped through the portal. And now you have constructed a reason.""I have not constructed anything," he said."Your father told you a story about a war from thirty years ago," I said. "And you drove here at midnight to use it to tell me that my sister cannot be trusted." I held his gaze. "Do you hear how that sounds?""Yes," he said. "I hear how it sounds. I am telling you anyway.""Because it is convenient for you," I said."Because it is true," he said.I looked at the window."Selena told me you would do this," I said. "She told me that the protective instinct would turn into something that worked against my destiny. She described this exact conversation.""Yes

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