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Elian bolted from the room, his heart racing with excitement after overhearing the conversation between his mother and Derek. He couldn’t believe what he’d just heard. Zayn. Their dad. The pieces were starting to come together in his mind. Mom had always been secretive about their father, but now it was starting to make sense. He hurried to find Aria, bursting with the news he could hardly contain.“Aria!” he called as he ran into the living room where his sister was playing with her dolls. She looked up, slightly startled by his sudden entrance.“What is it?” she asked, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion as she watched her brother panting with excitement.“I heard something—something big!” Elian said, barely able to control his excitement. He sat down beside her, leaning in as if he were about to reveal the biggest secret of their lives.Aria raised an eyebrow. “What did you hear?”“I overheard Mom talking about... Dad!” Elian said, his eyes wide with excitement. “I think she’s going
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I sat on the edge of my bed, phone in hand, staring at the screen for what felt like an eternity. I’d spent so much time running away, keeping myself hidden, and now… now I was considering going back. Not to Zayn’s pack, but to the region my family stayed in. I couldn’t risk Zayn finding out about the kids, not yet. I wasn’t ready to open that chapter of my life again, not after everything that had happened.My thumb hovered over Clara’s number. I hadn’t spoken to her in so long. I knew she had been trying to reach me for months, but I was the one who had changed my number. I had cut them off, not wanting to drag them into the mess that was my life at the time. But now, hearing Elian and Aria’s pleas, something inside me shifted. I needed to reach out. I needed to go back—if not to the pack, at least to where my family was.Taking a deep breath, I dialed Clara’s number. It rang twice before her voice came through, bright and full of excitement.“Aurora? Oh my God, is this really you?”
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I dialed Liv’s number with shaky hands, my mind still reeling from what had just happened with Derek. The moment she picked up, I didn’t even let her get a word in.“I don’t know what to do,” I blurted out, pacing back and forth in my room. “Derek—he... he’s been acting so different lately. He told the kids about the disease in the pack, scared them to death. And then we argued, and he brought up Zayn...”Liv’s voice was calm, like it always was. “Aurora, slow down. What do you mean he brought up Zayn?”I stopped pacing and sat down, running my hand through my hair. “He accused me of still thinking about him. And I think he’s right. Not that I want to be with Zayn, but... it’s hard, Liv. Derek’s been so good to me. He’s kind, he’s caring, but... I don’t love him. Not in that way.”There was a pause on the other end of the line. I could almost hear Liv thinking, choosing her words carefully. “Aurora, are you sure about this? Are you sure you don’t love him?”“I’m not *in love* with him
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The air inside the dungeon was suffocating, heavy with dampness and the faint metallic scent of rust. My footsteps echoed against the cold stone floor as I followed the guard. Every step felt harder than the last, but I couldn’t turn back. Not now. Not after everything. “He’s in the last cell,” the guard said, his voice flat. I nodded, not trusting myself to speak, and continued down the dimly lit corridor. When I reached the end, I saw him. Derek. He was sitting on a wooden bench, his elbows resting on his knees, muttering something under his breath. At the sound of my approach, he looked up. For a split second, there was a flicker of something in his eyes—surprise? Regret? I couldn’t tell. But then that twisted smile appeared, and any hope of decency vanished. “Aurora,” he drawled, leaning back against the wall as though he didn’t have a care in the world. “Finally decided to come and see me. Took you long enough.” I swallowed the lump in my throat, forcing my voice to remain st
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It was time. There was no more avoiding it, no more sweeping it under the rug. Derek was behind all of this—the kidnapping, the fear, the betrayal. It sat heavy in my chest, twisting into something sharp and unbearable. I sat at the edge of the couch, staring at Liv, the words tumbling out of my mouth before I could even process them. “It was Derek,” I said softly, my voice trembling.Liv, who had been pacing the room, froze mid-step. Her eyebrows shot up in shock, but then her expression shifted, softening into something more resigned. “Derek?” she repeated slowly, like she was tasting the bitterness of the word. “He was behind all of this?”I nodded, my throat tightening as I recalled the events of the last few days. “He...he hid the kids in some caravan. Aria told me everything when we found them. No food, no water—he left them there to rot.”Liv sank onto the couch beside me, her hand over her mouth. “Aurora, I—” She paused, shaking her head. “I don’t even know what to say.”“I
