Lineage Review Novels & Stories

Caius stood before she finished talking. "Bloodline test report," he stated, pulling out his tablet. "Conducted three weeks ago by certified analysts. Ancestral lineage traced back four generations to known royal lines." He walked over and handed the tablet to Reeves. "Ninety-seven percent purity match. Higher than most wolves with verified royal heritage." Reeves scrolled through the report. Her eyebrows rose. "Want to see capability?" He walked over to Reeves. "Training footage from last week. Watch what happens when three wolves attack her at once."

Livestock. Dr. Reeves narrated into a recorder as he worked. "Subject shows typical Alpha lineage markers. Bone density consistent with first-generation bloodlines. Genetic sequencing will confirm, but preliminary analysis suggests direct descent from the northern territories’ original pack." "What does that mean?" I demanded. He looked surprised I'd spoken, like the specimen had suddenly developed opinions. Then he smiled, the expression making my skin crawl.

he says. "I know," I say. He hands the knife back to me, handle first. "Keep it," he says. "Next time, aim for the throat." Outside, the moon is rising—two days from full, heavy and pregnant with light. But in the portrait room, surrounded by the faces of women who had not been allowed to choose, I feel something shift. The bloodline is not a curse, I realize. It is a question. And for the first time, I am ready to answer it on my own terms.

I ask, because even though I wouldn’t want that, she hasn’t even shifted, I don’t want to assume and offend my mate’s father. “I appreciate that offer, but no. She isn’t even a wolf yet. She won’t be able to take any title till she is 25 or meets her mate. I believe you will need to choose a Beta line if you choose to take over as Alpha, and you would need a Gamma as well considering his line died in the war.” “Alright, noted. Let’s get going.”

“The lineages rather… how sure are you that there are only three of us left?” “I’m almost certain,” he said, his manner now stern. “I did look but it appears there are just the three remaining.” Okay... so Thea wasn’t one of us. That was at least one theory gone. “And is there some sort of… purpose for this?” I asked. “...I guess I just don’t really understand why we would have these lines to begin with. Selene created families that each hold a diluted piece of her... and yet more than ninety-nine-point-nine per cent of our kind’s population don’t display anything like this? I feel as though there should be a reason for it.”

He looked at me. "Okay," I nodded. I was listening properly, not beating myself up, just trying to actually track what he was saying. "The branch point here," he pointed to where the crack split, "that's where the baby's bloodline came in. You can see it because it's a different than the main line. Slightly finer. When you go too deep, she goes with you. Both currents running together." He looked at the ground for another second. I looked at the crack for a moment. Then I said: "Can you actually read all of that from a crack in the ground?"

“About Adrian.” My heart stops. “The turning,” Vera says gently. “It’s not permanent. Not completely.” I stare. “What do you mean?” “There’s a cure,” Lucira says. “One cure. The blood of the true mate, willingly given under the Bloodline Eclipse. Royal hybrid blood offered with love can burn the sire bond away forever.” I sit up too fast, head spinning. “You’re saying if I give him my blood during the eclipse…” “He’ll be free,” Vera finishes. “Human again. Or as close as he can get.”

**Race-Specific Branches** - vampire lineages - dragon kin lines - shifter lines - witch and wizard lines - elemental hybrids - void-touched variants And then a third. **Cast-Specific Branches** - court systems - pack systems - blood oath systems - school system branches - military-augmented lineages Remy squinted at the chart. “That’s a terrifying amount of bureaucracy.” Kayo didn’t look away from the screen. “It’s also necessary.” “The fact that you said that without irony is why I’m worried.” Celeste let that pass.

I had noticed it before but it wasn't this clear and undeniable. “That was not normal,” I said aloud I reached for the secure line and pressed it. “Get me everything we have on unusual bloodline manifestations,” I said when the line connected. “Anything suppressed. Anything sealed “Yes, Alpha.” the voice at the other end of the call said and the line clicked off. I leaned back slightly, staring at nothing. This was bigger than a single incident, it looked like lineage. Like something inherited and activated And that brought me to a question I had been deliberately avoiding for six years.

The careful eyes were bright. He was holding something enormous with everything he had. I turned back to the panel. The proceedings were formal and brief. Caine read the relevant sections of the founding bloodline documentation, not all of it, the specific portions that established lineage verification and the recognition mechanism under the reformed framework. The language was dense and procedural and carried the particular weight of things that had been carefully constructed to last. An administrative witness confirmed the evidentiary submissions, the lineage documentation, the ability verifications, the Council's own records from the acknowledgement hearing months ago.