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The moment it happens, I feel it.
A pull in the air. A sharp, glowing shift that thrums deep in my bones like a long-forgotten melody finally remembered.
Sadie.
She's done it.
She's summoned the scepter.
I clench my jaw as I pace the stone floor of my chamber, the shadows bending with my mood. My fingers twitch at my sides as excitement thrums inside me. I'm barely able to contain all of it.
She's getting stronger, and this is exactly what we need.
I know Nyx is probably pushing and I love that. Let her push. Let Sadie master those powers. The stronger she gets, the better chance of freeing Kaden.
She doesn't know it, but she's going to play a huge role in helpingfree my mate. She's the missing piece and she has no idea. That alone makes my heart thrum with happiness. The fact that I'm using her and she doesn't even know it.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtI can't wait to see the look on her face when she realizes that she was playing to my tune. That everything she did will lead to Kaden being free.
"Blake!" My voice cuts through the silence.
Within seconds, the door creaks open, and Blake steps inside, eyes sharp and unreadable as always and loyal to a fault. Just the way I like him.
"You called?" I don't stop pacing. "Any word on her?" He shakes his head once. "No. The men say the sighting wasn't her. False alarm." It's starting to get on my nerves that I can't find her. I mean, how fucking hard is it to find one weak woman? My mother has managed to dodge my attempts to capture her for years and it's starting to seriously pissoff. Everything I've planned won't have the effect I want it to have if she isn't there to witnessdestroying everything she built.
I stop, turning to face him. "They're sure?" "They swore it. Whoever it was, it wasn't your mother." I exhale slowly, but there's no relief. Only irritation. “She's really good at hiding." But what else could I expect from her? There is a reason why she was queen. Blake doesn't speak. He knows better than to offer empty reassurances.
Part ofwants to believe that maybe she's already dead. That being in her weakened state killed her, but I can't. Let's just say that my mother is really hard to kill. She's probably out there biding her tand getting stronger.
I move to the arched window and peer out at the sunny sky, where the sky bleeds into jagged mountain peaks. "And the push?" Blake steps closer. "It's unfolding exactly as you planned. The seeds you planted are sprouting. Everything is falling into place just like you had planned and none of them are the wiser." A small smile tugs at the corner of my mouth.
Good.
One of the places I excel at is strategizing. Nyx should know this, but it seems she's too blinded by her bitterness to even realize I'm playing them like puppets. "Anything else?" I ask without turning.
Blake hesitates. And that pause alone makes my spine stiffen.
"What?" "There's talk," he says finally. "Sadie and Alec. It seems she's warming up to him. Word is she's agreed to give hima chance. His pack members are even calling her Luna." I go completely still.
Then the ground beneath my feet trembles-barely, but enough. The stones groan under the weight of my fury. Cracks stretch along the wall like veins.
I close my eyes, inhaling the rage that bubbles beneath my skin. Let it rise. Let it sting. Let it burn. But I won't let it rule me.
Because anger, my anger, must be precise.
Controlled.
Deadly.
Unlike Sadie, I don't use my anger to lash out blindly. I use mine to strike at my enemies until they are begging for mercy.
I don't let emotions rule me. That is something I learned from Kaden, and I must say, it's been one of the best things to happen to me.
"She can't," I whisper, almost to myself.
Blake shifts, uneasy now. "Xena-" "She can't say louder, turning to face him didn't tear everything apart just to watch Nyx play house with her little mate. That wolf should be on her knees, rotting in grief. Not healing." My nails dig into my palms.
Nyx doesn't get to win. She doesn't get her happy ending. I won't fucking allow that. I want her to suffer
want her in pain. I want her to five with the fact that she will never be happy. Not while I'm still alive.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThis is the price she'll pay for e. I betraying me. I want to watch her in torment before finally end her pathetic existence.
I close my eyes and I breathe. Slowly and Deeply, until the tremble in the ground stills, and silence returns like a breath held too long. I smile.
It's the kind of smile that makes Blake stiffen.
"What are you planning?" he asks, wary now.
I turn fully, eyes gleaming in the dim light. "Nothing much. I'm just going to make sure they never mate." His brows furrow. "How?" I tilt my head, that smile widening just enough to unnerve. Yeah, I can be unhinged sometimes, but Kaden lovesthat way.
"By sowing sdiscord." I tell him.
He blinks.
I take a slow step forward.
"It's tfor old ghosts to resurface..." I whisper.
Another step.
"...and for old wounds to rip wide open."
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