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Chapter 31: Your Mother is Alive

Aina's POV I can't stop staring at the letter in my hands. *Your mother is alive.* Four words that undo twenty-two years of grief in a single instant, grief I built my entire understanding of myself around, grief that explained every careful silence my family kept whenever her name came up at our table, every flinch my father gave whenever a child at a gathering asked where my mother had gone "How do you know this is real?" I ask Mara, my voice barely steady, my hands trembling slightly around the paper like it might dissolve if I grip it too tightly. "How do you know this isn't another trick, another piece of whatever game has been played with my life since before I was even born?" "I don't know for certain," she admits, her own expression carefully guarded. "I only know what was given to me, and who asked me to pass it along." I read the letter again, slower this time, searching for anything that might confirm or destroy what it claims, scanning every careful line for pr

Last Updated : 2026-10-04

Chapter 32: The Person I Can't Protect

Osborne's POV Kade tells me about the hidden warning in Aina's letter before she does, and something cold settles in my chest the moment I understand what it means.Someone close enough to hand her that letter directly may be working against her, hiding behind the appearance of help while quietly steering her toward danger she can't see coming."I want to question Mara," Kade says, already moving toward the door, his jaw set with the particular certainty he carries whenever he's decided a problem has an obvious solution. "She's the one who gave it to her.""No." The word comes out harder than I intend, though I don't soften it. "We don't accuse her without proof. Not after everything she's already done to help Aina since the day she arrived in this house."Kade stops, studying me with something like surprise, the kind of look that tells me he's recalculating something he thought he understood about how I handle threats to the people under my protection. A year ago I would have had Ma

Last Updated : 2026-10-06

Chapter 33: The Woman in the Photocopy

Aina's POV Osborne brings me the photograph himself, his face carrying a tension I've started learning to read clearly over these past weeks, the particular stillness he wears whenever something has genuinely shaken him rather than simply angered him.I study the image carefully, my mother young and unguarded beside a man I now understand was his father. Beside her stands a third woman, pregnant, her face deliberately destroyed, scratched away with the same violence that erased names throughout these old records, as though someone wanted absolute certainty that no one would ever recognize her again.I don't recognize her face. I can't, not with it ruined this thoroughly, the damage too complete to leave anything recognizable behind for me to study.But I recognize the necklace around her throat.A simple silver crescent, small and unremarkable at first glance, except that I've seen it before, somewhere buried deep in memory I haven't touched in years. A flash of my mother humming whi

Last Updated : 2026-10-07

Chapter 34: Someone Wants Rowan Dead

Aina's POV I'm at his side before he fully hits the floor, Mara already running through the door behind me, her healer's instincts faster than conscious thought, years of training carrying her forward before fear can slow her down."Help me," I say, pressing my fingers against his throat, searching for a pulse that feels weaker than it should, thready and uneven beneath my own trembling hands.Mara kneels beside me, pulling his eyelid back, checking his tongue, moving through a rapid assessment I don't fully understand but recognize as practiced and urgent, every motion deliberate despite the speed behind it."He's been poisoned," she says grimly."Will he live?""Barely, if we act now. Whoever did this wasn't trying to kill him outright." Her jaw tightens as she works, pulling vials from the pouch at her hip, uncorking one with fingers that move faster than I've ever seen from her before. "They wanted it to look natural. Slow. The kind of thing an old man's heart simply gives out fr

Last Updated : 2026-10-08

Chapter 35: The Enemy Inside Silver Crest

Osborne's POV I find her room empty.No note, no sign of struggle, only silence where I expect to find her curled up with Mara's medicine still on her breath after the chaos with Rowan. Something cold grips my chest the moment I understand she's genuinely gone, not simply elsewhere in the house, not tucked away with Mira in the kitchens or sitting beside Rowan's sickbed, but gone, her absence pressing against the bond between us like a held breath that refuses to release.Varg surges immediately, violent and desperate, every instinct in me screaming to tear through this entire territory until I find her by force if necessary, to burn through every locked door and shadowed corridor until her scent leads me somewhere solid.I stop myself.*Control. Think.*The words settle me faster than I expect, Varg's own lesson turned back against his own panic, the same lesson he taught me only days ago when he chose to listen rather than attack, when he proved that restraint could be its own kind

Last Updated : 2026-10-10

Chapter 36: The Secret My Mother Took With Her

Aina's POV The lock gives way before I fully understand how, a hand I don't see working the mechanism from outside in the dark, and then I'm moving, running, the documents still clutched tight against my chest while someone's voice urges me forward through corridors I don't recognize until I finally break free into open air, cold night wind hitting my face like the first real breath I've taken in an hour.I don't look back to see who helped me. I don't have the strength to question it yet, not with my heart still hammering and my hands still shaking around papers I'm terrified to lose now that I've finally gotten them this far, proof I refuse to let slip away after everything it cost to find.By the time I reach Silver Crest again, I'm shaking from more than the cold, my legs barely steady beneath me, every nerve in my body still braced for a threat that's no longer behind me.Osborne finds me in the entrance hall, relief and fury warring openly across his face, his hands twitching l

Last Updated : 2026-10-11

Chapter 37: If I Claim Her, They Win

Osborne's POV *You already know.*Mara's words wouldn't leave me alone. I had seen the question in Aina's eyes as Mara spoke. Wide, hurt, searching. I had no answer to give her, so I walked out before my face could say what my mouth wouldn't.And Mara was right. Some part of me had known since the night Aina's bond with Dylan broke and the noise in my head finally stopped. I had called it luck. I had never let myself call it fate.Kade found me in the war room an hour later, staring at maps I couldn't see."Say it," he said, shutting the door."If I finish the mate bond with her, the two bloodlines join again." My voice sounded flat. "The Moonbinders and the Beast Kings, together for the first time in generations.""And the elders will call it a threat.""They'll call it a reason. They won't need to beat me in battle. They only need the pack to believe a Moonbinder controls me."Kade was quiet. Then he said what I'd been dreading."Keep her close, Osborne. Claim her before they move.

Last Updated : 2026-10-12

CHAPTER 38 : The Woman Who Hates Me

Aina's POV I didn't sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I heard Mara's voice. *You already know.* And beneath it came the story the whole pack was whispering by morning: the Alpha had stood before the council and refused to send me away.*She stays because she has done nothing wrong.*It should have felt like a gift. Instead, it sat in my stomach like a stone. Powerful men never gave anything for free. I had learned that the hard way, and I wasn't going to forget it because one of them spoke kindly in a crowded room.I didn't want his protection. I wanted the truth. And I knew one person who might have it.I found Seraphina in the glass garden behind the east hall. She stood alone among the white roses, silver shears in her hand, as flawless as a painting. No servants. No smile. When she heard my footsteps, she didn't turn."I wondered how long it would take you," she said.My anger had been building all night. Now it rose so fast my voice shook. "You know something.""Why would you

Last Updated : 2026-10-14

CHAPTER 39: The Choice I Never Got to Make

Aina's POV I don't remember walking from the garden. One moment I was holding Seraphina's list, and the next I was standing outside Osborne's study with my hand on the door.I didn't knock.He was at the window with a scrap of old paper in his fingers. When he turned, his face stopped me for half a breath. He looked like a man who hadn't slept either."Aina."I held up the list. "Your family's name is circled."He didn't reach for it. He didn't ask where I had gotten it. He only went very still, the way a wolf does when it hears something far away."Tell me about your father," I said. My voice shook, and I hated that it did. "Did he know my mother? Did your family know what I was? Did the Cliffs have anything to do with my marriage to Dylan?"I waited for the smooth answer. The careful half-truth. Dylan had always kept one ready."I'll tell you everything I know," Osborne said. "It isn't much. Some of it will hurt."Then he did. He didn't soften it or dress it up.His father had kept

Last Updated : 2026-10-14

Chapter 40: The Moon Temple

Osborne's POV We left Silver Crest at dusk, four of us and no one else.Aina walked beside me with the papers pressed to her chest. She had told me about the voice in her head, her words quick and breathless, and I hadn't told her what to do about it. I had only said we would go. She had nodded. It was such a small thing, but it steadied me more than any plan.Kade took the front. Mara kept close to Aina, her fingers glowing faintly with healer's light.The forest changed within the first mile.No owls. No wind in the branches. Not even the tiny scratch of mice in the leaves. The trees stood so still they looked painted, and every step we took sounded far too loud."Forests aren't this quiet," Kade muttered."Something is keeping them silent," Mara said.I felt it on my skin, a heavy hush, like a held breath. Every shadow between the trunks looked like a hunter. My hands wanted to turn into claws. I kept them open at my sides.*Varg. Is it danger?*He took a long time to answer. When

Last Updated : 2026-10-16

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