Kaede Execution Novels & Stories

I only begged Urei to live and suddenly I looked like a killer? "She's omega," one guard muttered. "Weak. Couldn't bond him, so she killed him." I shot him a glare but he didn't even cringe or go back on his words. Drelia smoothen her dress. "Lock her up," she told Cade. "The council wants execution. Blood for blood." Cade's eyes met mine for one second. There was no guilt or mercy in those eyes but just relief. He finally had a reason to put me down. Handcuff clicked around my wrists, its touch was cold and to worsen it, I didn't struggle.

“Step forward.” He did. Tall, broad‑shouldered, early twenties. Kade. Good in a fight. Good at following orders. Terrible at nuance. Aiden remembered him at sixteen, shaking in a clinic bed after a bad shift, his mother begging for something—anything—to calm him without a collar.

I told her. “Well, my dear, Frey Kade. The witches are not challenging your position as Luna of this pack or the will of the moon goddess. We believe you are more than capable of securing us.” Agatha proclaimed. “That’s not what it looks like.” “Frey, we want you to learn how to control your ability. I know you'd hate to hear this, but your powers are dangerous and yes, you healed the entire pack with it, but it would have been different if…”

Kade just sent me waves of calm through the bond. “How did the person die?” he asked, looking at me. “I killed him,” Kade interjected on my behalf. “He had betrayed this pack and hurt my mate. I snapped with what he said, and I destroyed him so that he couldn’t hurt her again.” Caiathus looked at Kade and nodded. “Good. I am glad that he is dead. Is there anything I should know about him?”

"Location. State. If something goes wrong I need to know before a messenger can reach me." Abel was quiet for a moment. "And if one of us goes down," he said. "Then the others feel it," I said. "And act." "And if one of us dies." I looked at him. "Then the others finish it," I said. "That's how it's always worked." He looked at me for a long moment. Then he nodded. "Where's Kade?" I said. "Last corridor east. I'll get him." "Do it. We activate in ten minutes. Before the blood moon is fully up." I turned toward my chambers. "I need to check on—"

Those monsters murdered him, and someone has to… we have to-" He stopped, his hand flying to his mouth as if he could stuff the confession back inside. My jaw had gone slack and I remembered the letter Cade had received weeks ago, the one that had ordered the killing of Ruel’s father. "Listen to me," I grabbed his shoulders urgently. "You can't kill them, no one can. Whatever Ruel sent you here to do, it won't work. You need to leave. Go back to Moonclaw and tell them-" The glass shattered and Cade moved faster than my eyes could follow as he leaped through the broken window. The merchant barely had time to scream before Cade was on him. I watched, frozen in horror, as Cade tore the man apar

Now that— he hadn’t known. “I took everything,” Adrian said. Quiet. Flat. “Data. Names. Operations.” A pause. “I exposed them.” Kade chuckled darkly. “Almost.” That word hit. Hard. ⸻ “You missed one thing,” Kade continued. “A detail.” A beat. “A survivor.” Silence. Lena’s breath hitched. “…Who?” Kade’s smile returned. Slow. Dangerous. And he leaned slightly closer to her ear. ⸻ “You.”

If anything, he looked more composed than anyone else in the room. “You’ve improved,” Kade said, his gaze fixed on Adrian. “Your system held longer than I expected.” “You destroyed it,” Adrian replied. “No,” Kade said, smiling faintly. “I completed it.” Elena stepped slightly forward. “By turning people into experiments?” Kade’s eyes shifted to her, studying her with interest. “Ah. The hunter. You see failure. I see progress.” “This is chaos,” she said. “This is selection,” he corrected. Adrian’s voice hardened. “You removed the stabilizers.”

Elder Vex was supposed to be dead. Exiled five years ago for trying to kill Kade’s father and take the Alpha seat. The council called it treason. Kade called it unfinished business. Now he was back. With 120 rogues. And a grudge. “North pass,” Selene said, pointing at the map. “He’s massing there. Waiting.” Kade’s face was stone. “Why wait?” “Because he wants us to come to him,” I said.

KADE KADE Kade had killed before. Twice. The first time, he was eleven. He attempted to help an Unfortunate escape by sneaking up on an unsuspecting moderator and stabbing him in the throat. The moderator died, but three others were watching from a tower Kade didn't see. They shot his Unfortunate friend, Caleb, and dragged Kade, kicking and screaming, back to his father. As punishment, Michael locked Kade in a sweltering tin shed for days.