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A few miles later, Dom announced he was going to call it a night. I walked him to his cabin.“Are you going to keep at it?” He, like me, was sweating through his shirt. He wasn’t tired; I think our conversation just made him miss Tavi.“Yeah. Now that we started, my wolf is eager to keep going.” He was running around inside me. “I think I’ll shift and do another lap.”“Okay. See you in the morning. And Night?”I’d turned away from his cabin, but when he said my name, I looked back at him. He was smiling.“Thanks. I think I needed this.”I smiled back. “I think I did, too.”I felt much lighter after talking to Dom, and the run had really helped tire me out. I was eager to get back to my mate. I jogged to get back to the trail. On the way, I passed the library. It was dark because it was closed, but I saw a candle flicker in one of the windows.The sight brought me up short. It was probably just a wolf doing some late-night reading, but my gut told me I should investigate. I altered cou
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My wolf growled inside me, begging for the chance to sink his teeth in Lance’s neck, but what he’d said confused me. I stepped back, letting Lance catch his breath. He rubbed his chest where I’d held him.“You and Bryn aren’t even close,” I said. “The only time you ever interact is when you’re saying cryptic bullshit to her. Why do you care about her at all?”Lance started to laugh. “You can thank our familial bond,” he said. “Bryn is my sister.”Shock speared right through my chest between my ribs. I stared at him, disbelief and confusion warring for supremacy inside me. “No, she’s not,” I said. “Bryn is the daughter of a pack mother and a wolf named Lucian Slate. You can’t be related.”He leaned more comfortably against the tree. “We share the same mother. She had me before she found her way to the Wargs Pack.”My mind was reeling with this information. “Say I believe you. I don’t, but let’s just pretend.”He raised a brow.“What does this have to do with that book?”“It’s got infor
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Chapter 9BrynThe next morning, I woke alone to the scent of frying bacon. My stomach rumbled, and the baby did a somersault.I put my hand over my belly and smiled. “Okay. Let’s get something to eat.”I rolled out of bed and made myself presentable. I could hear several people shuffling around in the kitchen. One of them would be the person who would get as much bacon in me as I could stand.I made my way downstairs and found Violet, Mom, Night, and Dr. Stan talking in the kitchen. They all looked at me as I walked in.“Morning, everyone,” I said. Night came to me and hugged me tightly, as if this was the first time he’d seen me in days. I peeked around him to see our visitors. “Violet, Dr. Stan, long time no see.”“Likewise,” the doc replied. “But remember, you can call me Damon if you like.”“Oh, right.” I giggled. “Sorry.”“We’ll have another checkup when you and Night have the time,” he said.“Of course. We’ll figure out the best time to do that.”Night finally let me go, and I
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“Oh, definitely. But it’s hard to know how much magic or what exactly it was meant to do without translating it.”“I went on a run with Dom last night,” Night said. “On my way back, I ended up going to the library. I found a book on blood rituals in the glass cases they keep in the back.”“Oh? Show me.”Night left the kitchen, then returned with a thick tome. He set it in the center of the table, and when he opened it, its spine cracked in protest. We all bent to take a closer look at the book.“Oh,” Violet hummed. She started flipping carefully through the pages until my hand flashed out to stop her.“Wait,” I said. I ignored the words on the page and pointed to the illustration. “I recognize a few of these. I don’t think they were in the books the elders showed me.”“Fascinating.” Violet bent closer. “These symbols are newer than the others I remember from your drawings.”“Oh, you’ve seen them?”She nodded. “The elders in Wargs’ territory had them copied.”“Gotcha.”“Mom, do you rec
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We’d just gotten back from Wargs’ territory the night before, and while Bryn made sure the Kings were ready for the winter, Dom, Tavi, Lance, and I were back in the office, going through more piles of paperwork. It was a nice change of pace to visit home, but I was eager to get back to the problem of the children who had disappeared a decade ago. Dom and Tavi had been working to find any evidence of where the children were taken or where their remains might be. We were hoping to find evidence in these documents of secret, undeveloped land Gregor owned. It was a long shot, but we had to keep looking.Getting Lance to agree to team up had been like pulling teeth, but after I’d caught him in the library, he seemed to realize he couldn’t do this on his own. Supposedly, he still found the idea of looking through paperwork tedious and unnecessary, but he was here, helping.Tavi laughed suddenly, pulling my attention from the stapled stack of business projections. She was sitting on the grou
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“How did you gain Troy’s trust so quickly?”“Oh.” He heaved a sigh. “I had to go through his ‘initiation.’” He put air quotes around the word. “His word, not mine. It was a series of tests to prove my loyalty.”“What kind of tests?”He didn’t say anything for a while. When he finally opened his mouth again, he said, “Tests no one should have to go through. Especially not a teenager.” He rubbed his shoulder and looked away. “I still get nightmares about them. Sometimes.”His words dredged up a memory I’d tried hard to forget. It was of Evan in those last minutes.“Where were you,” he’d demanded of me, “when the Kings tortured me to break me and force me to kill to prove my loyalty to them?” Thinking of his words then, the unhinged glint in his eyes, how hard he’d breathed as he pointed the gun at me. With a rush of old guilt, I wondered if that torture he mentioned was anything like what Lance had gone through.“I spoke to the kid who survived the kidnapping,” I said. “Samuel Granby.”
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He was listening, but he still seemed hesitant. He said something under his breath, something that sounded like, “Even if it’s me?”“What?” I asked.“Nothing. Forget it.” He stared at the floor, then finally looked back at me. “I think you’re right. I’m not sure when I’ll tell her, but I promise it’ll be really soon.”“Then it’s a deal.” I held my hand out. “Let’s shake on it.”He looked from my face to my hand and back again. “Fine.” He stepped forward and clasped my hand with his. We shook once, twice, then let go. The agreement was official. I just hoped that Lance actually planned on following through.Lance left for the night just before Bryn got home.“Hey,” she said, wrapping her arms around my shoulders. “Did you make progress today?”I kissed her deeply, then said, “We found a few coordinates. They might give us some insight into what happened to those missing pups. Dom and Tavi are on it.”Her steely blue eyes lit up. Looking into them, I realized they were a similar shade o
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Suddenly, my eyes flew open. I was safe and sound in my bed in the alpha cabin. I sat up, my heart galloping.“You awake?” Night asked. He was pulling a shirt over his head. His hair was damp, and the mirrors in the bathroom were still steamy from his shower. All I saw, however, was his blood spurting from the wound in his shoulder. I jumped out of bed as quickly as I could.“You’ve been talking in your sleep—hey there.” He caught me as I barreled into him. I didn’t feel he was real until I felt his strong arms close around me. “Bryn, what’s wrong?”“I had a nightmare,” I muttered into his chest. But after a moment, I added, “No, I don’t think it was just a nightmare. I think my birth mother was reaching out to me.”“Blossom?” He pushed me back just enough to look into my eyes. His jade-green eyes were bright with worry.“She showed me a battle between us and Troy. I saw you get killed.”“Me?” He touched my cheek and pushed away a stray tear. “But clearly, I’m fine. Why would she show
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