MARKED BY MY STEPBROTHER
He immediately went quiet, pressing his face into my neck.
Sophie watched us with soft eyes, but I saw the exhaustion there. Being parents while fighting ancient forces was draining us both, yet it also made us sharper. More determined.
That afternoon we called a war council in the garden, our unofficial war room. Elders, Marcus, and the new alphas sat in a circle while Lucas played on a blanket between Sophie and me, trying determinedly to crawl toward a fallen leaf.
“The Echoes and shadows are servants,” one elder said gravely. “The true ancient beings, the ones who created the first prophecies, are waking fully. They want The Spark to stabilize their crumbling realms, or to become a vesse
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