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The Warlocks Proof

Soren placed the scroll on the table in front of all of us and I stared at it like it was going to bite me because honestly at this point everything in my life was capable of doing exactly that. The handwriting on the scroll was old and careful and I could feel my witch side reading it before my eyes even focused properly, the same way she always translated things without asking me first, like she had her own pace and I was just along for the ride. "This was written in 1347," Soren said, sitting down across from me while Brecken stood by the wall with his arms crossed and Lucian leaned against the bookshelf looking like someone who already knew the ending of a book everybody else was still reading. "Three hundred and thirty-nine years before your mother was born. Long before anyone in your bloodline could have arranged any of this deliberately." I looked at the scroll. At the description written in the old language that my witch side kept translating in real time. The three-layer

Training Begins

Soren stayed after Brecken and Lucian finally stopped arguing long enough to give me the rest of what they knew, which took two hours and left me sitting at that table feeling like someone had taken my whole life apart and laid all the pieces out in front of me to show me how little of it had actually been mine.I didn't cry. I was done crying over things I couldn't change.But something had shifted in me and everyone in that room could feel it.Brecken drove back to Ironveil at dawn. He didn't want to leave but I told him to go, and the look on his face when I said it was the kind of look that made my wolf ache and my chest go tight, because he went even though it cost him something and that mattered more than I wanted to admit right then.Lucian withdrew to some other part of the house.Soren stayed."Your witch side is the most untrained of the three," he said, sitting across from me at the same table where the scroll still la

Three Men, One Problem

Brecken came back the next morning without calling first.I heard his voice downstairs before I was even properly awake, low and tight and very controlled in the way it got when he was working hard not to let his wolf take over the conversation. Lucian's voice came back even and calm the way it always was, which I already knew made Brecken more frustrated not less because there was nothing to push against when the other person refused to get loud with you.I pulled on clothes and went downstairs because leaving those two alone felt like leaving a match next to something flammable.They were in the main room. Brecken on one side, standing, arms crossed, jaw set. Lucian on the other side, sitting, relaxed, looking like he had nowhere else to be and all the time in the world to get there. Which he did. Eight hundred years had a way of making urgency feel optional.They both looked at me the second I walked in."Don't." I pointed at both of t

First Shared Vision

Soren asked me to hold still while he worked through a grounding exercise with me, something about anchoring the witch energy to my own heartbeat so it stopped firing at random, and I was trying to do what he said when his hand covered mine on the table.It was just to correct my position. My fingers had been curling inward when they needed to be flat and open. He reached across and laid his palm over the back of my hand to show me the difference and the moment his skin made contact with mine the room disappeared.Not the way Lucian's visions took me. Not cold and dark and deliberate. This one hit both of us the same way and at the same time, because Soren's grip on my hand went tight the exact second I felt the floor drop out from under me.We landed somewhere old.Stone floor. High ceiling. The smell of something burning that wasn't wood or candle, something older, something natural, like the earth itself had caught fire somewhere far beneath us

The City Attack

The attack happened on the third day while we were outside.Soren had suggested we try training in open air because some of the witch energy worked better without walls around it, so we were in the back garden of Lucian's estate when my vampire side snapped awake so fast I stopped mid-sentence and grabbed Soren's arm."Someone's here," I said. "Over the wall."Soren didn't question it. He turned immediately, hands coming up, and I felt the magic shift in the air around him, something quiet and building, the way weather builds before a storm you can't see yet.They came over the wall in three places at once.Not wolves. Not vampires. Something in between, something with too many joints moving wrong and eyes that were flat and empty, and they moved fast, so fast I barely registered the first one before it was already across half the garden.Brecken came out of the back door at a sprint.I didn't know he'd been watching fro

Cade Returns

I saw him in the hallway. I had come downstairs at night for water because I couldn't sleep and the house was quiet and I was trying not to think about the attack or the vision or Soren's face when the woman with my face had looked at him. I turned the corner into the kitchen and there was a man sitting at the kitchen table that I had never seen inside this house before.He looked up the same second I saw him.And I knew.I didn't know how I knew. My vampire side had flagged him before I consciously recognized anything, that specific kind of alert she threw when something was nearby that wasn't wolf or vampire or witch but was still something, and my wolf had gone still in the way she went still around things that hadn't decided yet whether to be a threat.He was in his late twenties maybe. Dark hair. A face that looked like it had spent a lot of time outdoors and didn't apologize for it. Clothes that were built for moving in, not for anything els

The Hunters Warning

Brecken did not take the news well. That's a polite way of saying he heard the words Tribunal elimination order and his eyes went fully gold before Cade finished the sentence, and I had to put my hand on his arm just to remind him that breaking the kitchen table wasn't going to change the information on it.Lucian, who had appeared by the time we moved the conversation to the main room, received it the way he received everything, quietly, already calculating.Soren listened without moving and his expression went to something careful and still.Cade said it all again plainly, the way he said everything, no extras, just the shape of it. The Tribunal had issued a full elimination order two days ago. Not just for me but for my known associates and anyone sheltering me. Three separate hunter teams had been activated. The modified mercenaries from yesterday were the test wave. What came next would not be testing anything."How many," Brecken said.

Unwanted Attraction

I noticed all of it and I hated every single part of it.That was the honest truth. I noticed all four of them and I didn't want to and I couldn't stop doing it no matter how much I tried, because my body was not consulting my brain about any of this and hadn't been for weeks.Brecken had taken the chair nearest the door. He always did that. Put himself between me and whatever exit I might need to use in an emergency, and I knew it was the wolf doing it, the same instinct that made him reach for me before he reached for anything else, but knowing that didn't stop it from landing the way it landed, warm and steady and right under my ribs.He had also been watching Cade since Cade sat down and I could feel through the mate bond exactly what that watching felt like, tight and alert and not hostile exactly but not relaxed either, the specific feeling of someone marking new territory.Lucian was quieter than usual. He stood by the window the way he alw

The Missing Pages

Soren found it on the fourth day and came to find me immediately, which I knew because I could feel him moving through the house before I heard his footsteps, my witch side already tracking the energy he carried when he was focused on something that mattered.He laid the scroll on the table between us and I could see it right away, the thing he had seen, because once you knew it was there you couldn't unsee it. The edges where the paper had been cut. Precise, clean cuts, not tearing, not age damage, someone had taken a blade to this thing and removed sections deliberately and then rebound the scroll so carefully that unless you were looking for it you would never notice."How many pages," I said."I can't say for certain without knowing the original length." Soren's voice was controlled but the thing underneath the control was not controlled at all. "At minimum three. Possibly five. The cuts are at different points in the text, not consecutive, which means

The First Anchor Event

It started in the early morning when I was still asleep.My wolf woke up first. She came to the surface fast and urgent and the feeling she brought with her wasn't threat exactly, more like pressure, like a storm building from inside instead of outside. Then my vampire side woke up, and the hunger she carried wasn't the usual low hum, it was sharp and present and everywhere at once, every heartbeat in the house suddenly too loud. Then my witch side, and she brought the blue-white glow with her without me asking her to, and by then I was sitting upright in the dark with all three of them fully awake and pulling in different directions and the pressure in my chest was so bad I couldn't breathe properly.The door opened.Brecken came through first. He didn't have to be told. The mate bond had pulled him awake the same second my wolf surfaced and he was already moving when he got to me, hands on my face, trying to anchor the wolf through contact the way he alw

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