All Chapters of Forbidden Under the Blood Moon: Chapter 241 - Chapter 245

POV: WREN THORNE"Tell me you are not the second door," I said, before Corin had even finished turning toward me, my voice cracking on a plea I had not meant to let show so plainly.Corin did not flinch, which frightened me more than if she had. She stood at the edge of the training yard exactly where I had left her an hour ago, as though she had known this conversation was coming and had simply been waiting for me to arrive at it on my own. The moon caught the silver threading through her dark hair, and for the first time since she had walked into Ashborn territory two nights ago, I let myself truly study her face, searching for whatever Selene's crumpled paper had found hiding in the margins."I am not going to insult you by pretending I do not know what Selene found," Corin said, her voice steady in a way that felt deliberate, practiced, the voice of someone who had rehearsed this exact moment more than once in twenty years of waiting. "My name is in those records because I chose t

POV: WREN THORNE"Something is inside the walls right now," I said, before Kade had even cleared the stairwell, my voice sharper than I intended, urgency bleeding through every word.He reached the landing at a run, Selene and Ronan close behind him, and I watched his eyes go immediately to my face, searching for whatever had put that particular fear there. I did not blame him for the alarm. I had felt this pull only twice before, once in the testing yard hours ago, and once the night Aldric died, and both times it had meant exactly what I was afraid it meant now."Where," Kade asked, already moving toward the source of my attention without waiting for the full explanation."The nursery wing," I said, the words tasting strange and unfamiliar in my mouth, a place that had sat empty and unused since long before either of us was born, prepared generations ago for children neither pack had gotten around to raising there in decades. "I do not know why. I only know the pull is strongest the

POV: WREN THORNE"I am carrying our child," I said, the words leaving me all at once, faster than I meant them to, before fear could talk me into softening them into something smaller.Kade went utterly still in front of me, the corridor around us seeming to hold its breath along with him, and for a moment I could not read anything on his face at all, no joy, no fear, simply a stillness so complete it frightened me more than any reaction I had imagined while rehearsing this moment alone in the dark these last few days."How long have you known," he asked finally, his voice quiet, careful, the voice of a man testing whether the ground beneath him was solid enough to stand on yet."Three days," I admitted. "I wanted to be certain before I told you, and then Aldric died, and then Halric, and there was never a moment that felt like it belonged to anything but grief and strategy, and I was afraid that if I told you in the middle of all of it, this would simply become one more crisis for yo