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Chapter 1: Midnight Dreams and Old Ghosts

(Sienna’s POV)His hands were on me again.In the dream, Kade had me pinned against the cool studio wall, his body hard and demanding against mine. Those storm-gray eyes bored into me, dark with the same wild hunger that had ruined us both. “You’re mine, Sienna,” he growled against my throat, voice rough like gravel and sin. “Mate. My mate. Stop running from what we are.”My wolf surged forward, howling in agreement as the fated bond flared white-hot. I gasped, arching into his touch even as fear spiked through me. Anyone could walk in….; the staff, his fiancée Brielle, my own mother. We were step-siblings now. Forbidden. But none of that mattered when his lips hovered a breath from mine. I wanted him to ruin me all over again—“Mommy?”The dream shattered.I jolted upright, elbow sending fabric swatches flying. My heart hammered, skin damp with sweat. The dim studio lamp cast long shadows over mood boards and sketches. Kade Blackwood stared back from the open business magazine…. shar

Chapter 2: Echoes in the Dark

(Sienna’s POV)The phone felt like a live wire in my palm.'Come home, little mate. We have unfinished business.'I stared at the glowing words until they blurred. The unknown number stared back, New York area code, same as Vanessa’s call. My wolf slammed against my ribs, a low, desperate whine vibrating through my chest. Kade. It had to be him. No one else would dare call me that. No one else would know how the word still made my skin burn.I deleted the message with shaking fingers, then blocked the number for good measure. But the damage was done. The bond I had buried for seven years stirred, thick and hungry, like smoke curling under a closed door. I pressed the phone to my chest and slid down the hallway wall until I sat on the cold floor outside Milo’s room.'He doesn’t know,' I told myself. 'He can’t know.' Yet the text felt like fingers sliding along my throat, exactly where his hand used to rest when he pinned me against that studio wall all those years ago...Sleep never ca

Chapter 3: Flames of the Past

(Sienna’s POV)My hand froze on the ignition key.Kade kept walking... straight toward the SUV like he had all the time in the world and none of it mattered except the invisible chain snapping tight between us. The morning light caught the sharp lines of his face... the same storm-gray eyes that haunted every dream I tried to forget. My wolf lunged forward inside me, clawing to get closer, to feel his skin, to finish what the bond had started seven years ago.'Don’t you dare get out of this car,' I told myself. 'Drive. Now.'But my foot wouldn’t move. The bond hummed louder with every step he took, a low electric current that made my pulse stutter and my thighs press together against the leather seat. He looked... different. Harder. The boy I had loved at nineteen was gone, replaced by a man whose black suit stretched across shoulders built for power. A man who still wore the faint scar I had left on his jaw the night we marked each other in secret.He stopped inches from the driver’s

Chapter 4: Shadows of Betrayal

(Sienna’s POV)The world narrowed to the curve of Brielle’s hand resting over the gentle swell beneath her sleek black dress.Pregnant.Not Kade’s. The certainty hit me like a silver blade to the ribs... because if it had been his, the bond between us would have fractured the second I saw her. Instead it only burned hotter, twisting with fresh agony and a dark, possessive relief that made me hate myself.My wolf snarled inside me, claws raking against my chest. 'Not his. Never his.'Kade’s fingers were still curled around the side of my neck, thumb pressed to the frantic beat of my pulse. He didn’t look at Brielle. His storm-gray eyes stayed locked on mine, raw and desperate, like he was willing me to understand everything in one glance.“Sienna,” he said, voice low enough that only I could hear. “Get out of the car. Now.”Brielle’s heels clicked closer, that perfect society smile still fixed on her lips. “Kade, darling, the lawyers really are waiting. And you must be... Sienna, right

Chapter 5: Veils of Deception

(Sienna’s POV)The ultrasound photo trembled in my fingers like a live grenade.DNA MATCH CONFIRMED — BLACKWOOD HEIR.Vanessa’s smile never wavered as she descended the last stair, black silk whispering around her ankles. “Surprise,” she repeated, voice soft as velvet and sharp as claws. “Welcome home, Sienna. The real games start now.”My wolf lunged so hard I tasted blood on my tongue. 'Not possible. Not his.'Kade’s hand at my back burned hotter, fingers digging in like he could hold the world together by sheer force. “That’s a lie,” he growled, the words vibrating through his chest into mine. “Marcus Hale’s pup. Not mine. Never mine.”Vanessa tilted her head, eyes glittering. “DNA doesn’t lie, darling. Or have you forgotten the night you comforted poor Brielle after Harlan’s diagnosis? She was so distraught... so very grateful.” Her gaze flicked to me. “Men are weak when it comes to pretty tears, Sienna. You of all people should know that.”The bond between Kade and me twisted lik

Chapter 6: The Price of Blood

(Sienna's POV)The phone nearly slipped from my fingers."Milo." His name tore out of me like a wound. "Baby, are you hurt? Where are you right now?"The line crackled. His small voice came back thinner this time, threaded with the specific kind of fear that only children carry, the kind that has no understanding of why, only the raw terror of what."I'm in a car, Mommy. A black one. Mrs. Alvarez is sleeping on the floor and she won't wake up."My vision went white at the edges.Kade moved before I did. He was at my side in two strides, head bent close to the phone, jaw carved from stone. His hand found the small of my back again, grounding me before my knees could finish buckling."Milo," he said, voice dropping to that low controlled register that somehow carried more danger than a shout. "My name is Kade. Your mommy is safe and she is coming for you. Can you tell me if the car is still moving?"A pause. Then, "Yes. There are trees outside.""Good boy." Something in Kade's voice cra

Chapter 7: Wolves in the Walls

(Sienna's POV)The crying stopped as suddenly as it had started.That almost made it worse.Kade was already moving toward the door at the end of the corridor, but I caught his arm. "Wait." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "If they wanted us to find him they would not have sent the girl. They wanted us to hear him. They are herding us."Kade went still. His eyes swept the corridor, slow and deliberate, reading the shadows the way only a man who had spent years in pack politics could. Then he exhaled through his nose."The east wing," he said quietly. "It has been sealed since my father died. Harlan never reopened it. The security system in there runs on a separate grid from the rest of the estate.""Meaning your people cannot monitor it.""Meaning whoever planned this planned it here. Inside this house." His jaw tightened. "Someone on my staff."The words landed between us like a stone dropped in still water. We both watched the ripples.I thought about the girl's face. Young.

Chapter 8: Ashes and Instinct

(Sienna's POV)The photograph burned itself into my eyes.Flames eating the roof of the river house. Orange and white against black tree line. The kind of fire that does not start by accident.Kade took the phone from my hand before I could do something with it that I would regret, like throw it through the window or crush it into pieces just to feel something break that was not inside me. His thumb moved over the screen, studying the image with the focus of someone reading a map."Timestamp," he said quietly. "This was taken eleven minutes ago.""Which means whoever sent it was standing there watching it burn." My voice came out flat. Controlled. I did not recognize it as my own. "And they wanted us to know that."Dax glanced in the rearview mirror. "River house is twenty minutes from the estate on a normal night. Fourteen if I push it.""Push it," Kade said.The car accelerated into the dark. Tree line closed around us on both sides, the headlights still off, just the pale spillove

Chapter 9: Blood and Bargains

(Sienna's POV)The dark was absolute.Not the soft dark of a bedroom or the gentle dark of a car at night. The specific crushing dark of a sealed wing with no windows and no emergency lighting and someone who knew exactly where the breaker was.Milo made a small sound beside me, not quite a cry, the sound he made when he was working very hard to be brave. I dropped to my knees and pulled him against my chest before the second heartbeat had passed, his small arms locking around my neck with the desperate strength children do not know they have."I have got you," I whispered into his hair. "I have got you, baby. Do not make a sound."He nodded against my shoulder. His heart hammered against mine.Kade's hand found my back in the dark. Not searching, not fumbling. Deliberate. He knew exactly where I was the same way I always knew exactly where he was, the bond threading between us like a wire that darkness could not cut."Dax," he said, barely above nothing."Already on it." A soft blue

Chapter 10: The Woman in the Dark

(Sienna's POV)I read the message three times.'My name is Elara Blackwood. Harlan was my brother. And you, Sienna, are not the only secret he kept.'The drive was cold and quiet around me. Dax had finally noticed I had stopped walking and turned back, reading my face the way people who work close to danger learn to read everything, fast and without being asked."Problem?" he said."Someone named Elara Blackwood just messaged me."Something crossed his expression. Not surprise exactly. The particular stillness of a man who recognizes a name he was not expecting to hear out loud."You know that name," I said.Dax looked at the main doors of the estate for a moment. Then back at me. "That is a conversation for Kade.""Kade is inside the great hall doing something that cannot be interrupted." I held the phone up. "And she says I have an hour before Marcus's people go back to the river house. So you are going to tell me what you know right now."He held my gaze for a long moment. Then he

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