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“I will never leave you, no matter what. We are in this together, forever.” He leaned down, capturing my lips in a slow, deep kiss. I melted into his touch, completely safe in his arms, believing every single word. But then, his lips against mine began to turn icy cold. The warm sun faded into a terrifying gray. My pretty boy’s eyes suddenly shifted, turning entirely blank and full of disgust. “It was all a game, Nikolai,” his voice echoed coldly, shattering the room. The warmth vanished. A sharp, agonizing jolt of electricity shot through my left shoulder, forcefully snapping me back into reality.

Vanessa stood frozen in the doorway of the suite. Her hair was wet from the rain outside. Her mascara had started to run. The phone in her hand, the phone with the photo of her and Marcus counting cash, was trembling like she was holding a live wire. "It is you," she whispered again. "You are supposed to be dead." Seraphina stood very still. Damien was between them. On his feet now, his whole body tense like he was about to intercept something coming fast.

And now I am standing in the wreckage of that loyalty, watching her try to rewrite it. She steps forward, her eyes wide, her mouth trembling. “Fiona, you have it all wrong. It’s not what you think~” I laugh. It’s a brittle, hollow sound that feels like glass cracking in my throat. “Why do people always say that? Every damn fucking time. First Edward, now you. You always say it’s not what I think, when it’s exactly what I think. It’s exactly what it looks like. You hurt me. You hurt our friend group. You shattered something that mattered.”

Vanessa’s voice sliced through the silence, sweet yet laced with venom. “I warned you, Ethan,” she said, her eyes sparkling with triumph. “Didn’t I tell you she was unfaithful? But you wouldn’t listen. You defended her.” I opened my mouth, but no sound came out. Ethan’s gaze locked onto mine. What I saw there shattered me. Agony. Disbelief. Betrayal. “How could you, Liana?” His voice was strained, raw, and broken. “How could you betray me like this?” “No!” The word burst from me, filled with desperation and pleading. “Ethan, it’s not what it looks like! Please, just let me explain...”

Ruby, upon hearing my voice, looked up from the policewoman's arms, her eyes swimming in tears. Her look was a tangled mess of emotions: fear, shame, but above all, a desperate hope, like she was clinging to a lifeline, and a barely perceptible flicker... A silent question, checking if I was sticking to the plan. Choking back sobs, she reached for me. "Honey... honey..." I moved quickly, brushing past Seth's scorching stare, and wrapped Ruby in my arms, shielding her from the prying lenses with my back, a fortress of protection.

CHAPTER 13 – THE SHATTERED ILLUSION Althea’s POV “Stop shaking,” I whispered to myself. But my hands wouldn’t listen. The photograph lay on my lap innocent, harmless, and at the same time the most horrifying thing I had ever seen. Damian. Darius. Side by side. Same face. Same eyes. Same jawline. But only one of them had the tiny, faint scar at the corner of his right eyebrow. And it wasn’t Damian.

As soon as Vance realized his plans were unraveling—and the woman he’d spent four years trying to erase was now inside the pack’s territory he’d treated like his own fortress. He was waiting for the right moment. We basically handed it to him by putting everyone together in one place. I turned from the window. Damien was trying, not very successfully, to get out of bed. “Stay down,” I told him. “Aria—” “Damien,” I said, looking him right in the eye. “You can’t shift. You can barely stand. If you try to get out of that bed, you won’t help anything. You’ll just undo everything Nadia’s worked for all day. Stay down.”

Mirabel called her husband twice. I sat and watched the clock on the wall. When the surgeon finally walked out, I stood up before I even realized I had moved. He looked at all three of us and said it was a success. The impact had broken two ribs and fractured her left wrist, but she was stable. She would need rest and care for several weeks. Mirabel burst into tears. Francis put an arm around her shoulder. I stood a little apart from them, the way I had always stood, and breathed out the fear I had been holding the entire time.

His worried eyes meet mine and I shift just as I hear Emlyn’s voice. “I, Emlyn Grace Gunnar-Holstin, accept my role as mate to Alpha Richard Clint Holstin and Luna of the Shadow Falls pack. I promise to honor and protect the pack with my love and my life if necessary.” I turn, gasping as Emlyn slices Rich’s palm, licking his blood to officially make herself the Luna of Shadow Falls pack. I realize that the entire pack that has been here fighting is watching her, needing a leader to guide them.

Snow crunched under our feet. My breath came in gasps. Noah was crying in my arms. We reached a narrow ravine. Kate turned, holding her gun. “Go. Get to the other side.” I crossed the ice-covered stream, clutching Noah. Then I heard it. A shot. I turned back— Kate collapsed to the ground, blood staining the snow beneath her. I screamed. Another figure appeared behind her—gun raised. Victor Thorne. His eyes locked on me across the ravine.