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Elena trusted Mara completely. She'd been the only genuine friend Elena had found since arriving at Ashford pack—the only person who didn't look at her with suspicion or barely concealed disgust, who'd offered kindness without ulterior motive or calculated advantage.Which is precisely why the betrayal, when it finally surfaced completely, cut so devastatingly deep.Sabrina had summoned both of them to the Great Hall the following morning, claiming urgent pack business required immediate attention. Elena arrived expecting routine matters, completely unprepared for the ambush awaiting her."You told her?" Elena's voice shook with disbelief and devastation as she stared at Mara, understanding dawning with sickening clarity as Sabrina revealed detailed knowledge about the courtyard meetings, about the passionate kiss in the library corridor, about intimate conversations Elena had believed private and protected. "You told her everything about Kane and me?"Mara wouldn't meet her eyes, sha

The attack came three nights later, during the ominous blood moon when the veil between man and wolf grew dangerously thin and violence came easily to even the most controlled temperaments. Sabrina's carefully recruited rogue allies—hired secretly through contacts cultivated during her earlier explorations with hunters like Grix, fury disguised as calculated ambition—tore through Ashford's border defenses like devastating wildfire.Elena fought alongside Kane and the assembled pack warriors, blood and crimson moonlight mixing violently across her claws as she battled invading rogues with desperate intensity. But something felt fundamentally wrong about this confrontation—too coordinated, too precisely targeted toward specific vulnerable points in their defensive perimeter, suggesting insider knowledge rather than opportunistic aggression."It's a trap!" she screamed desperately as Kane suddenly lunged toward Sabrina's retreating figure, having spotted her fleeing toward the tree line