All Chapters of Forbidden Under the Blood Moon: Chapter 221 - Chapter 225

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Do not let them cross the tree line!" The words tore out of me before I had finished drawing my next breath, and somewhere behind me I heard Sable scream a name that was not her own.The gate had barely closed behind her when the first wolf broke from the dark, low and fast, teeth already bared. Ronan met it before I could, and the sound of that meeting was something I felt in my chest more than heard. Selene's arrows found a second attacker before it cleared the tree line, one shaft, then another, and it dropped without a sound.My own claws had already lengthened without my telling them to, some old animal instinct taking the decision out of my hands the moment blood hit the air. I had spent years learning to master that instinct, to hold the shift back until I chose it and not the other way around, and still it rose in me now the way it always did when the people I loved stood too close to danger.Wren did not move from my side. I had expected her to, some part o

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Say it plainly, Ronan. I would rather hear the ugly version from you than the careful one from anyone else in this room." I set both palms flat on the table and waited.Ronan did not look comfortable saying it even now, three days after the attack at the gate, with Sable resting under guard and the prisoner locked below where Wren had left him hollowed out and talking. My cousin had never been a man who enjoyed delivering bad news, which was precisely why I trusted him to deliver it honestly.Morning light came thin and gray through the war room's narrow windows, and the reports scattered across the table between us looked far too ordinary for what they contained, dates and names written in Ronan's careful hand, small marks in the margins that meant nothing to anyone but the two of us who had learned to read each other's shorthand across a decade of shared battles."Someone inside this manor sent word ahead of Sable's arrival," he said. "I have gone through every gu

POV: KADE ASHBORN"You do not get to question my nephew's rank in a room I did not invite you into." I kept my voice level only through effort, standing between Cody and the three elders who had cornered him near the training yard.Cody stood with his shoulders squared, doing a passable imitation of calm for a boy who had not yet finished growing into his own height. But I had known him his whole life, and I could see the tension along his jaw, the way his hands had curled into fists at his sides before he forced them open again.The training yard smelled of turned earth and old sweat, the same ground where I had once stood at Cody's age being measured by men who believed a boy's worth could be settled with a blade and a bruise. I had hoped the new charter would spare him that particular humiliation. Watching Thess circle him now, I understood how naive that hope had been."With respect, my lord," said the eldest of the three, a gray wolf named Thess who had served under my father sin