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Chapter 61

Roman's POV "He is here again."Denise's voice carried low across the bakery floor, and I did not need to look up from the invoice I was pretending to review to feel the particular, prickling wrongness settle over the room the moment Silas walked through the door, flowers in hand, smiling like a man who had every right to be standing there."Ivy. I brought these for Hazel. I remembered her saying something about sunflowers being her favorite.""You do not need to keep bringing gifts, Silas." Ivy's voice stayed carefully even, though I could see the tension sitting tight across her shoulders from where I stood near the counter. "Thank you for Saturday. Truly. But gifts do not change the arrangement we discussed.""I am not trying to buy my way back into anything." He set the flowers down anyway, uninvited, and it was only then that his eyes slid toward me, something cool and assessing moving behind the practiced warmth. "Roman right? I did not realize you would be here.""I am here mo

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Chapter 62

Roman's POV The pickup arrangement had seemed reasonable enough when Ivy first proposed it, a single supervised hour every other Sunday, Hazel's choice of location, Ivy's final word on whether it continued, and I had told myself, repeatedly, that my presence at the handoffs was simple protective instinct rather than anything closer to territorial.I was lying to myself, and Silas, waiting at the park bench with his hands shoved deep in his coat pockets, seemed to know it the moment I pulled into the lot behind Ivy's car."You really do not have to keep showing up to these," he said, watching me approach with an expression caught somewhere between amusement and irritation. "I am not going to abscond with her in broad daylight, Alpha. I am simply trying to be a father.""Funny. For three years you told Ivy, repeatedly and in front of witnesses, that you refused to even consider the possibility."Something flickered hard and fast behind his eyes, there and gone before he smoothed it bac

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Chapter 63

Ivy's POV "You are distracted tonight," Roman said, hands settling warm at my waist from behind, his mouth finding the curve of my neck with slow, deliberate intent that did absolutely nothing to help me focus on the question."I am thinking about the training.""Mm. Are you." His hands slid higher, thumbs tracing slow along my ribs, and I felt my own breath catch despite every attempt to keep my mind on the wolf still stubbornly dormant somewhere beneath my skin. "Because you do not feel very focused on training right now.""That is entirely your fault.""I accept full responsibility." He turned me gently to face him, and whatever teasing had been in his voice a moment ago sobered slightly, something more serious moving behind his eyes. "Ivy. Silas said something to me today. At the park."My stomach dropped straight through the floor of the training yard. "What did he say.""He told me to ask you what really happened the night he learned the truth about Hazel" Roman's hands stilled

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Chapter 64

Roman's POV Marcus found the connection two days later, bursting into my study with a folder clutched tight enough to wrinkle the edges, something feverish and urgent in his expression that had me on my feet before he even spoke."I found something. In the old records, cross referenced against the newer intelligence reports." He spread several documents across my desk, hands not quite steady. "Roman, the paternity test from years ago. I found a record of the lab that processed it.""Why does that matter.""Because it was not an ordinary lab." Marcus tapped one finger against a highlighted line. "It is a facility with documented ties to Bloodmoon. Roman, someone connected to Draven's network ran that test, which means someone connected to Draven's network has known Hazel's true parentage for years."The floor seemed to tilt beneath me, pieces finally, violently clicking into place. "Silas did not stumble onto that information independently.""No. I do not think he did." Marcus's expre

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Chapter 65

Ivy's POV The postcard arrived folded inside a grocery store flyer, easy to miss, deliberately so, and I nearly tossed the whole stack directly into the recycling before some old, hard won instinct made me check each page individually first.The handwriting hit me before the words did, familiar and sickening in the particular way it always was.You let him touch you the way he touched me. Does he know yet what that makes you? A thief wearing a healer's hands.My knees found the kitchen stool before I fully registered sitting down, the words blurring and sharpening and blurring again as I read them over, searching uselessly for some version of the sentence that did not mean what it so clearly meant.Whoever this was knew about Roman. About us. About the particular, devastating shape of what I had taken from him that first night, specific enough now that there was no remaining space to tell myself the threats were simply guesswork, educated cruelty aimed at an old wound.My phone buzze

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Chapter 66

Roman’s POVWe found the clearing a quarter mile in, and for one suspended, terrible second my heart simply stopped, certain we were about to find something considerably worse than a lost child.Instead, we found Hazel, perfectly safe, sitting cross legged on a fallen log, chattering animatedly at the dog crouched beside her.Having a feeling someone was deliberately tolling with usWe brought Hazel back to Ivy's apartment rather than risk another minute of unnecessary movement, the whole building swept twice by my own scouts before I would let either of them through the door, and it was well past midnight, Hazel finally, soundly asleep, before the adrenaline still hammering through my system began to properly fade.Ivy moved through the small kitchen on autopilot, making tea neither of us particularly wanted, hands still faintly unsteady from the evening, and it was reaching for the kettle that she caught her palm against the edge of an open cabinet door, a sharp, startled hiss escap

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Chapter 67

Ivy's POV Silas began appearing with considerably more frequency after the other night, always with some reasonable excuse, always perfectly timed to whatever errand or appointment I happened to be running, and it took me nearly two weeks to understand that the pattern was not coincidence at all, but a deliberate, patient campaign to make himself simply unavoidable."He brought flowers again," Denise reported, arranging them in a vase with visible distaste. "And this time he specifically mentioned how nice Roman's truck looked parked out front yesterday. Very casually. Very pointedly.""He is trying to provoke him.""He is succeeding, somewhat, if the look on Roman's face at pickup last week was anything to go by." Denise studied me over the vase. "Ivy, what exactly is he playing at?"I did not have a complete answer, only the cold, persistent unease that had settled into my chest since the night in the tree line, watching Silas angle himself closer to Hazel, closer to me, with a pat

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Chapter 68

Ivy's POV I did not sleep that night, lying awake long after Hazel's second scare had finally resolved itself into nothing more than a misplaced afternoon and an overreacting babysitter, turning the timeline over and over until the pattern emerging from it left me cold and sick to my stomach.The first time, the farmer's market, had come less than an hour after I nearly told Roman everything in the training yard.The second, the frantic phone call, the empty backyard, the twenty longest minutes of my life before Hazel turned up safe in the neighbor's garden chasing their dog, had come the exact same afternoon I finally worked up the courage to drive to Darkwood with the full confession rehearsed and ready.Two incidents. Two moments where I had been right at the edge of telling Roman the truth. The timing was too precise to be coincidence, and I sat up in bed, heart hammering, forcing myself to actually look at what I had been too frightened to examine properly before now.Someone wa

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Chapter 69

Roman's POV Dinner at Theresa's had become such a fixed part of our week that I barely registered the easy, familiar rhythm of it anymore, Hazel narrating her day between bites, Theresa doting on her with the particular warmth she reserved only for people she had fully decided to love, and it was somewhere between the main course and dessert, Ivy excused to help Hazel wash sticky hands, that Theresa leaned toward me with an expression I did not immediately recognize as significant."I have been meaning to ask you something," she said, voice pitched for privacy. "Did Ivy ever mention her visit to Agatha? Out past the old boundary?"The name landed strange and sudden, nothing in my memory connecting it to anything Ivy had ever told me directly. "Agatha?"Something flickered across Theresa's face, quick and uncertain, as though she were only now realizing the question had not landed where she expected. "The old healer. Out at the edge of the territory. Ivy came to me a few weeks ago ask

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Chapter 70

Roman's POV "You knew I was coming.""I suspected." Agatha ushered me inside with the same brisk, unceremonious efficiency Theresa had described, settling me at a cluttered table crowded with jars and old, brittle books. "Ivy Kaletta's wolf and yours have been circling each other for months now, Alpha. It was only a matter of time before you came looking for the same answers she did.""What did you tell her.""The truth, as much of it as I understand myself." She poured two cups of something bitter smelling, studying me over the rim of her own. "Silverglen. A healing bloodline, strong and rare, destroyed decades ago by a pack that has spent generations consuming territory through conquest rather than alliance. Bloodmoon."The name landed with a weight I had been building toward for months, every scattered thread of Marcus's research finally, fully converging into something solid enough to hold."Ivy's mother." I asked with more certainty than it was a question "One of the few surviv

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