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Chapter 81

Chapter 81Sophia"Because he followed me."I said it before Kellan could open his mouth, and I heard how it sounded the second it was out, standing barefoot on the wet grass at dawn holding my own shoes, with my hair full of leaves and Kellan shirtless beside me. But I'd spent my whole life with people lying about me and around me and over my head, and I wasn't going to start doing it to somebody else on a porch at six in the morning.Ryder stared at me. "He what?""He's a wolf. Harland. He didn't know. He was walking home through the woods last night and he shifted for the first time in his life without meaning to, and he followed my scent five miles through the trees, and when he got to us he...""Okay," Kellan said loudly. "That's enough of that.""I wasn't finished.""You were finished. You were very finished." He stepped half in front of me without even looking, the way he always does, like his body decides before his brain does. "He showed up, he shifted back, he ran away holdi

Last Updated : 2026-10-12

Chapter 82

Chapter 82Sophia Ryder sat at the table for a long time with his hand against his chest. The sun was all the way up now, coming in through the kitchen window in a long yellow stripe across the floor."Noon," he said finally."I heard," Kellan said."Dad. Elina's father. Probably half the elders." He rubbed his face with his good hand. "They're going to sit me at that long table and read me a contract. I already know it. He's going to tell me I'm marrying her, and he's going to say it like he's telling me what's for dinner, and everybody's going to nod.""Probably.""Come with me."The kitchen went quiet.Kellan didn't move behind me. I felt his hand stop on my back."What," Kellan said."Come with me." Ryder finally looked up. His eyes were red. "Stand next to me. In that room. In front of him. I'm not asking you to say anything. I'm not asking you to fight anybody. Just stand there.""Why.""Because you're the only person I know who's spent his whole life on the wrong side of him a

Last Updated : 2026-10-12

Chapter 83

Chapter 83Sophia"Was he bleeding?"Solia asked it before I'd even sat down. I was still standing in the middle of her little pink bedroom trying to figure out where to put myself, between the desk covered in old nail polish bottles and the shelf of softball trophies, and she was sitting cross-legged on the bed next to Gerald with her arms wrapped around her own knees, and she didn't look at me when she said it. She looked at the giraffe."When he got to Kellan's," she said. "This morning. Was his hand bleeding?"I could have lied. I thought about it for one second, standing there. I could have said no, it was fine, it was clean, he just needed a fresh bandage. It would have been so easy, and she would have believed me, because she wanted to.But I'd driven four hours to stand in this room. I wasn't going to start it with a lie."Yes," I said. "It was soaked through. He was sitting on the porch steps and there was blood on the wood between his boots."She closed her eyes."I cleaned

Last Updated : 2026-10-13

Chapter 84

Chapter 84Sophia My phone buzzed in my bag. Then again. Then again, the same long angry buzz, over and over, and I dug it out and looked at the screen.Six missed calls. All Kellan. And two texts.We're out. Call me.Sophia. Call me. Did you get there? Are you ok?I'd forgotten. I'd sat in his truck for ten minutes working up the nerve to knock, and I'd completely forgotten to tell him I'd made it."It's Kellan," I said. "I have to call him. He's going to think I drove into a ditch.""He's very dramatic," Solia said. "He used to call me if I was five minutes late for coffee.""He hasn't changed."I went out into the narrow hallway with all the old school photos and pulled the door mostly closed behind me and called him. He picked up before it even finished the first ring."Are you okay?" No hello. Out of breath. I could hear wind and car doors and somebody shouting in the background. "Where are you? Did you get there?""I'm here. I'm fine. I'm sorry, I forgot to text. I'm at her mom

Last Updated : 2026-10-13

Chapter 85

Chapter 85Sophia"Is he there?"Solia was standing in the bedroom doorway holding Gerald so tight his neck bent, and she said it to me, not to the phone, like she was scared that if she spoke into it directly something would break."She wants to know if he's there," I said into the phone."He's in the passenger seat," Kellan said. "He hasn't said a word since he walked out. He's just staring at the dashboard."Then a voice in the background, hoarse and close. "Is that her? Kellan. Is that Solia?""Hang on...""Give me the phone.""You can't hold a phone, your hand's...""Then hold it for me. Put it on my ear. Kellan, please."There was a rustle, and a thump, and then breathing. Right there in my ear. Ragged and fast."Solia?" Ryder said.I held the phone out to her.She looked at it. She looked at it for a long time, at my hand, at the screen with Kellan's name on it, and I watched her want to take it so badly her fingers twitched on Gerald's neck.She shook her head."Tell him if he

Last Updated : 2026-10-14

Chapter 86

Chapter 86Sophia"Could I please have a little more coffee, Mrs. Hart, if it's not too much trouble, only if there's some left, and only if you were already getting up."Kellan said it so politely I almost choked on my toast. He was sitting up very straight in a wooden kitchen chair that was too small for him, with his hands folded on the table in front of his plate like a kid in a principal's office, and his voice had gone soft and careful in a way I'd never once heard come out of him. Not with his father. Not with the palace guards. Not with the elders. Not even with me.Mrs. Hart didn't answer him. She picked up the coffee pot off the stove, walked over, filled his mug to the very top, and set the pot back down on the stove. Then she looked at him.It wasn't a long look. Maybe two seconds. But Kellan went red from his collar all the way up to his hairline, and he picked up his mug and said, "Thank you so much," into it, and took a sip that was much too hot, and didn't make a singl

Last Updated : 2026-10-15

Chapter 87

Chapter 87 Sophia Mrs. Hart slid the eggs out of the pan onto a plate and turned around and set the plate in the middle of the table. Then she stood there with the spatula in one hand and the other hand on her hip and looked at the four of us. Slowly. One at a time. Ryder. Solia. Kellan. Me."I raised one daughter in this house," she said. "And I've had a lot of guests in that guest room. Hunters. My sister's family for Christmas. A man from the feed store whose truck broke down in a snowstorm. And I want you all to know that in thirty years, nobody has ever made that bed sound the way it sounded last night."Kellan put his face in his hands.Ryder slid down in his chair so far I thought he was going to disappear under the table.Solia covered her eyes with both sweater sleeves and made a high little noise.I couldn't hold it anymore. The laugh came out of me all at once, loud and helpless and completely embarrassing, and I put both hands over my mouth and it kept coming anyway, my

Last Updated : 2026-10-15

Chapter 88

Chapter 88Sophia"Did you say yes?"Solia whispered it right into my ear with her arms around my neck, standing next to her little blue car in her mother's gravel driveway while the brothers argued about who was carrying the bags. She'd hugged me goodbye like she meant it, which was so strange I still didn't know where to put my hands, and she'd held on longer than I expected and put her mouth by my ear, so nobody else could hear.I didn't answer.She pulled back and looked at my face. Then down at my left hand, where I'd been rubbing my thumb over my bare ring finger all through breakfast without even noticing I was doing it."I didn't say anything," I said.Her face fell. Just a little. "Oh, Sophia.""Don't.""I'm not doing anything.""You're making your mom's face. The one she makes at Ryder.""Because it's the right face." She glanced over at Kellan, who was trying to shove Ryder's duffel bag into the back of her car while Ryder told him he was doing it wrong. "He got down on one

Last Updated : 2026-10-16

Chapter 89

Chapter 89 Sophia Hunched forward, elbows on his knees, a manila folder held against his chest with both hands. Wrinkled grey shirt. Hair sticking up. Glasses back on. There was an empty coffee cup next to him on the step, and another one tipped over in the grass below it, and a granola bar wrapper, like he'd been sitting there for a very long time.Harland.He stood up when he saw us. Slowly, carefully, one hand on the railing, the way you'd stand up if you'd been sitting on hard wood for hours and your legs had forgotten how."Don't," Kellan said through the windshield, very low, like Harland could hear him.He got out of the truck. I got out on my side. We stood in the gravel on opposite sides of the hood, and Harland stood at the bottom of the porch steps holding his folder, and nobody said anything."I've been here since ten this morning," Harland said finally. "I didn't know when you'd be back. I didn't have your number, Kellan. And I didn't think Sophia would want me calling

Last Updated : 2026-10-16

Chapter 90

Chapter 90Sophia"She goes quiet."I said it to Kellan across the hood of the truck, and my voice didn't sound like mine. It sounded small and far away, like it was coming from the bottom of a well."When he touches me, she goes quiet. All the noise stops. The fever, the pulling, everything. And then she leans." I made myself keep looking at him. "Toward him. Like she knows him. Like she's known him for a long time and she's just been waiting for me to notice."Kellan didn't say anything.The sun was almost down behind the pines. The light had gone that deep orange that makes everything look like it's on fire, and it was on his face, on the side of his jaw, in his eyes that were still gold at the edges. He kept his hand flat on the hood of the truck. He didn't look at Harland. He didn't look at the porch. He looked at me, and I watched what I'd said go into him slowly, the way water goes into dirt."Okay," he said."Kellan...""Okay."He took his hand off the hood. He turned around.

Last Updated : 2026-10-17

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