The Human Among Wolves (Aurora) novel Chapter 236

Chapter 236

Aurora

My breath stopped.

Not a gasp. Not a stutter.

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It just… stopped.

“You are becoming what she died to protect.”

The words settled over the chamber like falling ash–silent, suffocating, impossible to ignore.

“But she’s not dead,” I whispered, my voice raw. “My mother is alive. You said she isn’t with the coven anymore–not that she’s—”

The leader lifted one finger.

The gesture was soft, almost gentle, yet it cut straight through my voice.

“Alive or dead,” she said calmly, “changes nothing about the sacrifice she made.”

My stomach twisted. “That doesn’t make sense.”

“Doesn’t it?” she murmured, studying me with unnerving precision.

Behind her, the runes pulsed faintly–as if the chamber itself leaned in to listen.

Zayn strained against the invisible magic holding him, fury in every line of his body.

“Stop talking in riddles. If you know something–say it.”

But she didn’t spare him a single look.

Her silver eyes stayed locked on me.

“What you merged with,” she said softly, “should never have happened.”

My pulse stuttered. “The wolf?”

“Not only the wolf.”

Her mouth tightened, the first real flicker of unease I’d seen from her.

“You bridged three bloodlines that were never meant to meet.”

Cold crept up my spine.

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“My mother,” I whispered. “What did she protect me from?”

The leader’s gaze sharpened–cold, clinical, cutting.

“From the truth.”

Zayn’s breath hitched sharply beside me, panic and rage tangled in His expression.

But the leader still didn’t look away from me.

“What truth?” I asked, voice cracking.

She stepped closer.

Not loud. Not threatening.

Just… absolute.

“The truth that your existence was forbidden before your mother ever conceived you.”

My heart plunged.

“Witches,” she said quietly, “do not bear children of Lycans.”

Her gaze flicked to Zayn–brief, sharp–before returning to me.

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“Not anymore.”

A chill rushed through me so violently my hands shook.

“You know what the Lycan King’s bloodline means,” she continued. “Your father’s power alone was enough to make the coven

fearful.”

“And then,” the leader said, voice dropping lower, “you were taken.”

My breath caught.

Not taken by my father.

But by the one person who had caused all of this.

Zayn’s father.

The leader stepped closer.

Her voice lowered.

“When Cecilia disappeared from this coven eighteen years ago, she was already pregnant. We searched. We found nothing. No trail.

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No magic. No remnants,”

Her gaze hardened.

“Whoever took her masked her completely.”

My chest tightened painfully.

“She didn’t return until ten years later,” the leader continued. “Along”

Alone.

The word hit hard.

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Zayn’s breathing faltered behind me.

“She came back shattered,” the leader said softly. “Bruised. Exhausted. Unable to speak. And with no memory of where she had been

kept.”

My breath trembled.

“And you,” the leader continued, eyes locked on mine, “were nowhere.”

A chill shot through my body.

“She told us she had given birth,” the leader said. “A daughter. You.”

“But she could not remember when she last saw you. Or who took you from her.”

The floor seemed to tilt under my feet.

“She didn’t hide you,” the leader said.

“She lost you.”

Lost.

Not abandoned.

Not hidden.

Lost.

The word tore something open inside me–something raw, something buried so deep I didn’t even know it existed.

I forced out a breath. “So all this time… all of you thought I was dead?”

“No.”

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The leader’s voice softened, but only slightly.

“We thought you were gone. Taken beyond our sight. Beyond our reach. Beyond anything we could track.”

My pulse hammered. “And you never found a trace?”

“None,” she said. “Not of you. Not of the place Cecilia had been held. Whoever took you… erased everything.”

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