Chapter 11

Three days passed.Kane didn't leave my side. He slept in the chair by my bed, his head tilted back, his mouth slightly open. He ate the hospital food – gray meat and lumpy potatoes – without complaining. He held my hand when the pain got bad. He read to me from a book he found in the healing house library, some old romance novel with a cracked spine and yellow pages.My mother came and went. She brought me clean clothes, my favorite tea, a photograph of my father that I kept on the bedside table. She and Kane didn't talk much, but I saw her watching him. I saw the anger in her eyes soften, just a little.On the third day, Vivra came.She wasn't alone. The Alpha King walked beside her, his face hard as stone.They stood in the doorway of my room. The King's eyes swept over me – the IV, the bandage, the gray skin – and his expression didn't change."Kane," he said. "Come home."Kane didn't stand up. He didn't let go of my hand."No," he said.The King's jaw tightened. "You have a bondin

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Chapter 12

Three months later, Mary stood under the old oak tree.The leaves had turned gold and red. They fell around her like rain, drifting down from the branches and settling on her shoulders.Kane stood a few feet away, his hands in his pockets, looking up at the sky."You should go back to the North," Mary said.He shook his head. "This is my home.""There's nothing for you here.""She's here." He looked at the old oak tree, at the grass beneath it, at the path that led to the Moon Spring. "Her memory is here. That's enough."Mary was silent for a long time. Then she reached into her pocket and pulled out the moonstone."She wanted you to have this," she said.Kane looked at the stone. It glowed faintly in the autumn light – soft and warm, like a small heartbeat."Keep it for me," he said. "Until I see her again."Mary's eyes filled with tears. She nodded.Kane turned and walked toward the forest. The path was overgrown now – no one came here anymore. But he knew the way. He had walked it a

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