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Chapter 261

Ember's POVKnox was quiet for a moment.Then he said, "Your origin is not only on your mother's side."I looked at him."Selena has been telling you about the wolf side," he said. "The Lycan world, the prophecy, what your mother was and what that means for what you are." He held my gaze. "She has not talked about your father.""My father is human," I said."Yes," he said. "Completely. And that is half of you." He held my gaze. "The prophecy does not describe a wolf who can shift. It describes a hybrid. The specific combination of both natures, fully. Not one diluted by the other — both present and both real." He held my gaze. "The human side of you is not the lesser half. It is not the part that needs to be developed into something else. It is the part that makes the peace possible."I held that."A full wolf cannot bring peace between the wolf world and the human world," he said. "Because a full wolf belongs to one side. The prophecy requires someone who belongs to both." He held my

Chapter 262

Ember's POVKnox was at the door when I said it."Wait," I said.He turned."We need to swear it," I said. "Both of us. Not just promises — the actual swear."He held my gaze."By our blood," I said. "That we trust each other. That we stop keeping things back. That we treat the people around us as threats until they prove otherwise." I held his gaze. "Both of us. Together."He came back into the room.He held out his hand.I put mine in it."By my blood," he said. "I will trust you with everything I find. I will not manage what you receive. I will treat James and Selena as unverified until we know more." He held my gaze. "And I will keep you safe.""By my blood," I said. "I will trust you. I will stay away from Selena until we know who she is. I will tell you everything my father tells me about my mother." I held his gaze. "And I will be careful."We held hands for a moment.Then I said, "Be careful of James too."Knox held my gaze."He has his own agenda in this," I said. "You said i

Chapter 263

Ember's POVMy father read the hesitation.I watched him read it — the specific way he processed information that arrived through silence rather than words. He had always been good at that. It was the thing about him that had made growing up in his house difficult in specific ways — he did not need you to say the thing. He found it in the space around what you said.He closed the book.He put it on the table beside him.He looked at me with the expression that had replaced the waiting one — something older, something that had been sitting underneath the waiting the whole time."Stay away from him," he said.I stared at him."Knox Rivers," he said. "Whatever he has told you about himself, whatever version of himself he has presented to you this semester — stay away from him.""Dad—""I mean it," he said. His voice had gone to a place I had not heard from it often. Not anger — something more serious than anger. The specific register of someone who was frightened and was using authority

Chapter 264

Ember's POVMy father looked at me.Not with anger.With something that was worse than anger — the specific expression of a person who has been seen in a place they thought was hidden and has not yet decided what to do about being seen there. Something raw and exposed and entirely unmanaged.Then his face closed.Not gradually. The specific closing of someone who has felt something arrive on their surface and has decided to put it back.He stood up.He picked up his book from the table.He walked out of the sitting room.Not dramatically — no door slamming, no raised voice, no final word. Just the quiet, dignified exit of a man who had decided the conversation was finished on his terms and was removing himself from it.His footsteps on the stairs.His bedroom door.The soft but final sound of it closing.I sat in the sitting room alone.I looked at the chair he had been sitting in. At the impression still in the cushion. At the table where his book had been.I had hit it.Not guessed

Chapter 265

Ember's POV He listened. I told him carefully — not everything, not the wolf and the pack and Knox and the training ground. Just the changes themselves. The sounds arriving too loud. The smells that hit before I had crossed a room. The strength that showed up without warning. The pressure that came with certain moon phases. I watched his face as I talked. The scared quality arrived early and stayed. Not the performative kind — the real kind, the kind that lived in the body rather than the face. His hands tightened on the arms of the chair. His jaw set. His breathing changed slightly in the specific way breathing changed when a person was trying to appear calm and was not calm. When I finished he was quiet. Then he said, "Do not tell anyone about this." I held his gaze. "Not your friends," he said. "Not anyone at school. Not anyone." He held my gaze with an urgency that was not like him — my father was a measured person and this was not measured. "Do you understand me?" "Why?

Chapter 266

Ember's POV"Mum."The word came out before I was fully awake — loud, the specific involuntary loudness of something that had started in the dream and arrived in the waking room before the transition was complete.I sat up.The room was morning.My room. My bed. The window with the ordinary street outside and the light coming through the curtains at the angle it came through at this hour.The field was gone.She was gone.I sat on the edge of the bed and held the blanket in both hands and let the specific grief of it arrive — not dramatic, just real. The grief of someone who had been holding something and had it taken back. The dream had been complete in a way that waking was not and the waking was a loss even though the dream had been a dream.I pressed my hands against my face.Breathed.The warmth of her arms was still there in the body even though the body knew it had not been real. The specific quality of being held by someone who knew exactly how to hold you.I sat with it until

Chapter 267

Ember's POVI typed fast.*Sorry James — I have an important project commitment at school today. Won't be back until late. Can't make it.*I sent it.I put the phone face down.I picked up my training notes and looked at them and did not read a single line.My phone buzzed.I turned it over.James: *That is fine. We are already on our way to you.*I stared at the screen.I read it again.Already on our way to you.I typed back immediately: *James I said I am not available today.*His response came in under thirty seconds.*Selena has a narrow window. The portal cycle does not wait. This cannot be rescheduled. We are five minutes away.*I put the phone down.I pressed both hands flat on the desk.Five minutes.They had not asked if today worked. They had told me they were coming and waited for me to respond and by the time I responded they were already in a car on a road heading to my father's house where my father was downstairs and had already looked at Knox with the expression of so

Chapter 268

Ember's POVMy father looked at James and Selena for a long moment.Then he looked at me on the stairs."I have a meeting," he said. "Downtown. I was going to tell you before I left." He held my gaze with the specific quality of a man who had assessed a situation and made a decision about it. "I will be back this afternoon."He turned from the door.He went to the hallway table and picked up his keys and his jacket.He did not look at James or Selena again.He looked at me one more time as he passed the bottom of the stairs."We will finish our conversation," he said. Quiet. Just for me."Yes," I said.He went out.The door closed behind him.---I came downstairs.I looked at James and Selena on the front path."Come in," I said. Because there was nothing else to say.They came in.The house was quiet around us — Rita not back from her trip, Charlotte wherever Charlotte was, the specific empty quality of a house with one person in it suddenly having three.I took them to the sitting

Chapter 269

Ember's POV"Why would I lie?" I said.Selena held my gaze."That is the question I am asking you," she said."No," I said. "I am asking you. Give me a reason. If I am lying to you about Knox coming here last night — give me a reason why I would do that."Selena looked at me for a moment.Then she said, "The bond."I held her gaze."The bond between you and Knox," she said. "It is strong. Stronger than I expected when I came here." She held my gaze steadily. "I can see it. Not metaphorically — I can actually see it, the way a full Lycan can see the connections between wolves when they look for them." She paused. "The bond between you is pulling at you. Everything he tells you lands differently than what I tell you because of it. He says stay away from me and the bond makes it feel like truth.""Maybe it is truth," I said."Maybe," she said. "Or maybe the bond is being used to keep you from your destiny."I held her gaze."Knox is not using the bond," I said."He does not have to use i

Chapter 270

Ember's POVSelena stood up.Not dramatically — with the specific deliberate quality of someone who had decided the sitting version of a conversation was finished and was moving to the standing version.She was tall.I had noticed that the first night in the cave — the specific height of her, the way she occupied a space. Standing in my father's sitting room in the morning light she was taller than she had seemed across a park bench or a café table.She looked at me."Be careful," she said.I held her gaze."I am giving you the same warning I would give anyone," she said. "Because you are my sister and I came here with genuine intent and I would prefer not to be on opposite sides of this." She held my gaze with the specific quality it had when the warmth had left it entirely and what remained was something older and harder. "But do not mistake my preference for a limitation.""Is that a threat?" I said."It is a fact," she said. "The Lycan world is not patient. The factions that want

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