The Human Among Wolves (Aurora) novel Chapter 157

Chapter 157

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“I’m standing here.”

“Well move.”

“Make me.”

“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”

“Try me.”

“You move like a brick with legs.”

“And you whine like a toddler.”

“At least toddlers have emotional intelligence.”

“What the fuck does that even mean-”

Selene groaned into her hands. “I swear, I deserve financial compensation for this.”

I sank onto my bed, heart still racing.

“They’re going to rip each other apart out there,” Mira muttered.

Riven glanced toward the door. “Not before we figure out who stays.

I blinked. “Who what?”

Selene sat beside me, expression softening. “One of them has to stay with you tonight. Just in case.”

Lira nodded. “That message wasn’t a joke.”

Mira exhaled. “So… who do you want inside?”

The question hit harder than it should have.

Outside the door, Kael and Zayn were still snarling insults like brothers who hated each other.

My pulse thumped in my ears.

Selene placed a hand gently on my knee.

“Who do you trust to protect you?”

My mouth was dry. My heart was loud.

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Selene waited.

Mira squeezed my fingers again.

And finally–somehow–I managed to whisper:

“Both.”

Selene raised a brow like she’d expected drama and got a whole damn saga.

Riven just nodded, like that was the only logical answer.

Mira let out a tiny yesss under her breath.

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Lira looked relieved that I hadn’t picked wrong.

Selene cleared her throat, turned, and swung the door open.

“Alright,” she announced, “you can both come in. Don’t make me regret this.”

Kael walked in first, jaw set tight. Zayn followed, eyes immediately scanning the room.

They stayed on opposite sides of the room… still glaring.

The moment they realized I had chosen them both to stay, their expressions shifted in perfect, irritated symmetry.

Kael’s gaze cut to mine, sharp with disbelief.

“So you couldn’t pick,” he said, tone flat but edged.

Zayn let out a soft scoff, arms crossing over his chest. “Not surprised he muttered.

I drew a breath, steadying myself. “I didn’t choose because I need both of you,” I said. “Not for your egos. For what’s happening.”

They didn’t look any happier with that explanation. Kael’s jaw tightened. Zayn’s brows lowered. If anything, they looked even more annoyed–just for different reasons.

Selene stepped more fully into the room, reclaiming the space with a kind of effortless authority only she could manage. “Okay, Testosterone time is over,” she announced. “Aurora has something she needs to say.”

I swallowed the nerves climbing up my throat. My fingers tightened around the edge of the blanket as I looked from one face to the

next.

“I want to go back to the cabin,” I said. “Seraphina’s cabin. Tomorrow.”

A cold, solid silence settled immediately.

Then came the explosion.

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Kael first, voice firm as steel. “No. Absolutely not.”

Zayn almost over him, jaw set like stone. “That’s out of the question

Selene stared like I’d lost my entire mind.

Mira threw her hands up. “Why are we volunteering for murder?”

Riven mumbled something about bad omens and horror movie rules.

Lira just shook her head, eyes wide.

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I held up a hand, trying to calm the storm before it became a hurricane.

“I know what you’re all thinking. But she was the only one who told me anything real about who I am. If there’s even a chance she’s

alive… if the cabin still has clues… I can’t just sit here pretending none of this is happening.”

Kael’s anger didn’t fade–it shifted. “Aurora, that place is dangerous, he said quietly, voice tight. “The kind of dangerous you don’t

walk away from twice.”

Zayn didn’t argue that. His silence said enough–fear tucked behind the hard edges.

“I’m going regardless,” I said, softer but no less certain. “I have to.”