Madeline:
What happened to Yuvonne was cruel.
The council leaders could not do anything to help, but what disturbed me even more was the silence from Lord William.
Why was he staying quiet?
Why was Lady Abigail still being allowed to hold power after everything?
Then the answer hit me.
Maybe Lord William had already seen those videos and finally accepted the.
That I was not worth defending.
That I was just a monster.
Feeling completely defeated, I picked up my babies and got into Byron’s car.
Deep down, I already knew the moment Ron received that call, he had chosen us.
I never wanted him dragged into this mess, but after everything the pack had done to him, I knew he did not want to go back either.
Those people had ruined his entire life.
Of course he would never return to them.
“I seriously don’t understand why you guys can’t just stay with my pack,” Byron muttered irritably as he slid into the driver’s seat.
Ron sat beside him while the three of us stayed in the back with the children resting in our laps.
“You don’t get it, Byron,” I replied tiredly. “They won’t just come after us. They’ll go after your pack too. And I’m sure they’ll manipulate your people into turning against anyone who supports us.”
“My pack members would never betray me,” Byron argued, shaking his head firmly. “They’d fight beside me if they had to.”
The amount of faith he had in his pack honestly surprised me.
Then he grunted softly and scratched at his neck again.
I had been noticing that habit for a while now.
He just kept doing it over and over again.
That was when all of us realized something.
Byron had already decided where he was taking us.
The second that thought hit us, everyone’s eyes widened.
“What?” he complained after catching our expressions. “I’m taking us to my pack.”
“Byron, that’s a terrible idea,” Ron shot back immediately.
“If we go there and they’ve already been manipulated against you, then we’re walking straight into danger,” he warned. “And we have children with us. We can’t afford to take risks like that.”
While Ron argued with him, Byron adjusted the rearview mirror and glanced at the children in the backseat.
And honestly, they looked terrified.
Bodhi clung tightly to Lord Jonah while Elara slept curled against me.
But I knew they were not really asleep.
They were only pretending to be.
The children looked so frightened that Byron slowly eased his foot off the gas before finally turning the car around.
“I’m serious. We need to go back to the cabin,” Ron said firmly.
Lady Eugenia immediately started shaking her head the second he said it.
“That’s the only place they probably won’t search for us,” Ron argued. “And besides, we’ll have the whole day to figure things out. By the time night comes again, we can already be back inside the cabin. Right now, that’s the safest place we have.”
He kept trying to convince everyone, but I stayed quiet.
Because honestly, I knew he was right.
The sirens and alarms echoing through the distance already proved that.
They were looking for me.
The monster.
Eventually, we made it back to the track where all of this had started.
The second I stepped out of the car, I inhaled deeply.
And immediately, something felt off.
The air itself felt wrong somehow.
Lord Jonah carefully took Elara from my arms while Lady Eugenia carried Bodhi beside him.
Meanwhile, Ron rushed ahead toward the cabin to unlock it and make sure nobody was hiding inside.
But he moved too fast to notice what the rest of us suddenly did.
I froze mid-step.
“What’s that?” Lord Jonah asked quietly, pointing toward the ground.
My legs started shaking as I slowly walked closer.
Then I dropped to my knees.
A torn piece of Baxter’s hospital gown lay there in the dirt, stained with dried blood.
His hospital wristband was still attached.
And in that moment, everything inside me sank.
He had been here.
And the blood belonged to him.

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