Chapter 11

Kael survived both wounds, but the silver had entered his blood. For three days, the healers kept him in a private treatment room infused with cedar and mountain sage. They surgically removed the poisoned tissue, filtered the silver from his blood, and forbade anyone from visiting him.I asked for news every few hours. Each time, the answer was the same. "He is alive. He needs rest."My son did not ask about Kael. He barely spoke to me at all. His name was Rowan. I had whispered it to him once at the Bloodmoon gate, but Seraphina had called him Cassian since the day she took him. In Silvercrest, everyone used the name he knew.On our first night together, he refused to sleep in the room beside mine. "I want my mother," he said. I was holding Nova near the fire. The words hurt, but I did not correct him."I know.""Seraphina always stays until I fall asleep.""Then I will stay.""You are not her.""No. I am not."He stared at me, waiting for anger. Perhaps he expected me to tell him tha

Chapter 12

One year later, the border stones between Silvercrest and Bloodmoon were replaced. The new ones bore the emblems of both packs and the terms of the peace agreement. Neither side could move warriors across the border without written notice, and no child could be transferred without the consent of both legal parents. The final provision had been written in my name.I stood beside the northern road while the last stone was lowered into the earth. Kael watched from several steps away, his hand resting over the scar beneath his coat. Silver had left two pale lines across his side. He still felt pain during cold weather, though he denied it whenever I asked.Cassian ran toward us with a padded practice blade in his hand. "Kael said he would teach me how to block.""Kael also said you had to finish your lessons first.""I finished most of them."Kael folded his arms. "That is not what we agreed."Cassian looked at me for support. I raised an eyebrow, and he sighed with the misery of a child s

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