Semua Bab Forbidden Under the Blood Moon: Bab 11 - Bab 15

Point of view: Wren“Dance with me,” Kade said, appearing at my side so suddenly I nearly dropped the goblet Briar had pressed into my hand ten minutes earlier. “Before my father decides tonight’s dinner needs another political interrogation disguised as small talk.”I glanced across the crowded hall at Alpha Magnus, deep in conversation with a cluster of visiting elders, and decided Kade’s offer sounded significantly better than the alternative. “You’re going to have to teach me. Omegas don’t exactly get invited to practice this particular skill.”“Then it’s a good thing I’m patient,” he said, holding out his hand.The hall had been transformed for the evening, candlelight and pack banners and the kind of formal music I had only ever heard drifting faintly from windows I wasn’t allowed near. I let him lead me onto the floor, painfully aware of Selene’s eyes finding us almost immediately, and of Ronan positioned near the doors like a sentry watching for threats that could come from an

Point of view: Wren“This belonged to your mother,” Briar said, pressing a small tarnished locket into my palm with hands that trembled slightly. “I found it sewn into the lining of your travel bag. I think she hid it there on purpose, Wren, in case you ever needed it.”I turned the locket over slowly, my fingers tracing an engraving worn nearly smooth by time, the same crest I had now seen twice in three days stamped onto weapons meant to hurt me. My chest tightened painfully.“She knew,” I whispered. “She knew this would find me eventually.”“Open it,” Briar urged gently.Inside, a tiny folded piece of paper had been pressed against a faded portrait too small and worn to make out clearly. I unfolded the paper with careful fingers, my heart hammering as I recognized my mother’s handwriting, elegant and hurried, like she had written it in a moment she knew was running out.If you are reading this, my daughter, then the truth has finally found you the way I always feared it would. I wa

Point of view: Wren“Say that again,” Alpha Magnus said, low and dangerous, staring at his son standing between me and an entire hall of armed guards. “Say it again, and understand there is no version of this pack left for you once those words leave your mouth.”Kade did not move, did not flinch, his whole body a wall between me and everyone in that hall who wanted me gone. “I said touch her, and you go through me first. I meant every word of it.”The silence that followed felt like it lasted a lifetime, every wolf in the hall frozen, waiting to see whether their Alpha would truly turn on his own heir over a girl none of them had wanted here in the first place. Somewhere behind me I could feel Briar’s hand pressed against my back, steadying me the same way she had steadied me our whole lives.“You would choose her,” my father in law said slowly, “over your own pack. Over everything I built to keep us safe after your mother died.”“I would choose the truth,” Kade said, “over a law buil