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chapter 251

POV: WREN THORNE"Wren, stop! Look at your hands!" Cody's voice cracked across the training yard, and I looked down to find gold fire crawling over my fingers, the wooden post in front of me already black and crumbling like old bread, while every guard in the yard stood frozen and staring.Corin did not move. "Do not pull away," she said calmly. "If you snatch the power back, it will tear something inside you.""It is burning, Corin!" My voice shook. "I cannot feel my own skin.""You can feel it. You are just afraid to." She stepped closer, her gray braid swinging, her old eyes steady on mine. "Breathe in for four counts. Out for six. Now tell me what the fire wants.""It wants out.""Then why is it still in your hands and not in the whole yard?"I stared at her. The question landed strangely, because she was right. The gold light was bright, but it clung to me like a second glove. It was not running wild. It was waiting. The morning air smelled of scorched pine and cold dew, and my k

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chapter 252

POV: KADE ASHBORN"You are not training again today, Wren. I mean it. I watched you almost fall in front of the whole yard, and I will not stand there and watch it happen twice." My voice came out sharper than I intended.She stopped in the doorway of our room, one hand resting on the frame. Pale afternoon light fell across her face, and I saw the dark circles under her eyes that she had tried to hide with a braid and a brave expression. "Kade, I did not fall. I sat down quickly.""You sat down because your legs quit.""They quit for a few seconds.""A few seconds is long enough for a blade to find you." I rubbed my forehead. "I am sorry. I do not want to fight with you. I just cannot stop seeing your hands on fire.""And I cannot stop hearing that heartbeat." She walked in and sat on the edge of the bed, quiet for a moment. "Do you think I do not want to rest? Every part of me wants to lie down and keep one hand on my stomach and pretend the moon is a year away. But it is not, Kade.

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chapter 253

POV: WREN THORNE"Tell me you did not take it from the gate, Cody. Tell me you did not walk out there alone." My voice shook with anger I could not hide, because the small iron token in his palm looked far too much like a threat.My little brother lifted his chin, the way he always did when he knew he had done something foolish. We stood in the back corridor behind the kitchens, where the smell of baking bread drifted through the walls, a smell so ordinary it made the moment feel even stranger. "I was not alone. I took two guards.""Which two?""Pell and Dara. They stayed by the wall. I only crossed the stream.""Cody!""It was right there, Wren!" He held out the token. It was dull black metal, no bigger than a coin, stamped with a crescent moon and a thin curved bone beneath it. "I was checking the ground by the east wall because Ronan said to look for signs, and it was half buried in the mud. Someone dropped it that night."I took it carefully. It was heavy for its size, and cold, a

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chapter 254

POV: KADE ASHBORN"If you are going to lie to the council, Kade, do it well. Because the first wolf who smells hesitation will know you are hunting them." Ronan's warning was still ringing in my ears when I walked into the long hall.The council chamber felt smaller than usual that morning. Twelve chairs curved around the oak table, six for Ashborn and six for Thorne, and every face in the room carried a different kind of tension. Wren sat on my right with her hands folded, calm on the outside, though I could feel the ember humming faintly through the bond between us. Selene stood near the window with the ledger. Ronan leaned against the far wall like a man who had not decided yet whether to trust the floor."Thank you for coming," I said. "I will be direct. After the attack, we believe Corvyn's people have a way to learn our plans before we finish making them."Elder Brannock folded his thick arms. "You are suggesting a leak inside this room.""I am suggesting we are all careful.""T

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chapter 255

POV: WREN THORNE"Say it again," Varek said, and for the first time since the night began, his calm cracked like thin ice. "Say the name you just spoke, Wren Thorne. Say it slowly, so I know I am not dreaming."I stood outside the cell door in the lantern light, the iron token held out between two fingers. The cold stone corridor smelled of damp wool and old chains. Behind me, Corin waited near the stairs, arms folded, her presence a quiet wall of safety. The guard had agreed to give us five minutes. I had a feeling five minutes was all this man would ever give me."Marrow," I said.His eyes closed. His shoulders, which had been so straight and unbothered for two days, sagged as if someone had cut a string. When he looked at me again, the polished mask was gone. In its place sat a tired, hollow face that looked ten years older than it had in the corridor."Nobody has said that name aloud since I was nine years old," he said."The attacker who used it was angry," I said. "He meant it a

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chapter 256

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Do not call me fragile, Corin. Do not ever call me that again." Wren's voice echoed off the cellar stairs, low and shaking, and I had never heard her speak to the old woman that way before.We were descending beneath the Thorne wing of the manor, down a narrow stair that smelled of wet stone and old paper. Selene went first with a lantern. Ronan guarded the rear. Wren walked between Corin and me, and the tension between the two women was so thick I could almost taste it, like iron on my tongue."I did not say fragile," Corin said. "I said you should not be here.""You said it twice. In a tone that meant the same thing.""Because you carry a child, and the air down here has been sealed for years.""And you carry a secret about my own cradle, and you have not offered me a single honest word since the cell."Corin stopped on the stair. In the lantern light her face looked carved from old wood, lined and unreadable. "I told you I would answer when I understood how wrong

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chapter 257

POV: WREN THORNE"You have known for weeks, Ivy, haven't you? Weeks! You let me cry on your shoulder while this sat in your pocket like it was nothing." I could barely breathe, and my own voice sounded like a stranger's.Ivy stood in the middle of my sitting room with her back against the door, as though she was afraid I might push her through it. The morning was gray and wet, rain tapping the window glass in slow, uneven drumbeats. A small iron token lay on the table between us, identical to the one Cody had found in the mud. Ivy had placed it there herself, her hand trembling the entire time."It is not nothing," she said. "It has never been nothing.""Then why did you lie to me in the corridor?""Because he made me promise." Her eyes filled. "Tobin made me swear on my mother's name that I would tell no one until he came back.""Tobin." I tasted the word. "The man you ran away to marry.""Yes.""And he is Vane."Ivy flinched as if I had struck her. "He was an archive child. One of t

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chapter 258

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Open the gate! Open it now, he is dying!" The shout tore through the night, and I was out of bed and down the stairs before I fully understood that it was a guard's voice, high with panic.Rain hammered the courtyard stones. By the time I reached the front gate, three guards had dragged a man through the iron bars and laid him on the wet ground. He was young, thin, covered in mud and blood, one eye swollen shut. A black token hung from a cord around his neck, crescent and bone gleaming in the torchlight."Tobin!" Ivy burst past me, bare feet slapping the stones. She dropped to her knees beside him, sobbing. "Tobin, please, look at me!"His good eye opened. "Ivy," he whispered. "I told you I would come back.""Do not talk. Do not move.""I have to." He gripped her wrist. "Alpha. Where is the Alpha?""Here." I crouched on his other side. Wren appeared at my shoulder, wrapped in a heavy cloak, her hand pressed against her stomach, her face tight with a mix of relief an

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chapter 259

POV: WREN THORNE"What if I give my child nothing but danger, Corin? What if the only gift I have is a moon that wants to eat us?" The question fell out of me before I could soften it, and the night swallowed it whole.We stood alone in the training yard, long after the guards had gone to bed. A thin crescent hung low over the trees, pale as a fingernail, offering almost no light. Cold seeped up through my boots. Corin sat on an overturned barrel with her hands tucked inside her sleeves, watching me with the patient eyes of someone who had heard every fear a mother could have."That question has more than one answer," she said."Give me the honest one.""Then here it is. You will give your child danger, and you will also give your child you. Both will be true until the day you die. No mother escapes that bargain.""That is not comforting.""I am not here to comfort you. I am here to prepare you." She smiled faintly. "But I will tell you what comforted me. When my own daughter was born

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chapter 260

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Stay behind me when the doors open, Wren. Not because I doubt you. Because if they want the heir, they will look for you first." I said it quietly, standing outside the great hall at dawn with my heart pounding.She turned and looked at me. The envelope had been opened an hour ago. Inside was a single card with an invitation to meet at first light, the council and both Alphas, to speak with the one who had waited twenty years to be heard. No threats. No names. Only the crescent and the bone, pressed into black wax. Somehow that was worse."I am standing beside you," Wren said. "Not behind.""Wren.""You told me last night that you would say it out loud if you thought I was pushing too far. Say it, then. Do you think I am pushing too far?"I looked at her. Pale gold light from the narrow windows touched her cheeks. She wore the dark green Thorne cloak with her hair tied back, one hand resting low on her belly, the other hanging free. I thought of the burned post in t

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