98 Chapter 98

98 Chapter 98

Seraphina’s POV

The words hit me like a slap to the face. My legs gave out instantly.

“What?” I gasped, grabbing the edge of the desk. “What did you just say?”

“No. No no no.” I was shaking my head so hard it hurt. “That’s not possible. You’re wrong.”

Marcus’s hands shot out to steady me as I swayed. The young soldier was still on his knees, tears streaming

down his dirt-streaked face.

“Where?” My voice cracked. “Where did this happen?”

“Eastern ridge, Luna,” he stammered. “The camp… it was destroyed. Blood everywhere. We couldn’t… we

couldn’t find…”

“Stop!” I cut him off, my heart hammering so fast I could barely breathe. “Just stop talking!”

I pressed both hands to my chest, searching desperately for that warm feeling that told me Damien was alive.

It was… weak. But still there. It had to be.

“If he was dead, I’d know,” I said, more to myself than anyone else. “I’d feel it break. The bond would snap.”

“Sera,” Marcus said quietly. “Sometimes shock can-”

“NO!” The word exploded out of me. The windows actually rattled. “Don’t you dare say it! He’s not dead!”

Everyone in the room stepped back. I could feel my alpha power flooding out like a tidal wave, making the air

thick and heavy.

“Damien!” I screamed into the mindlink, putting everything I had into it. “Damien, answer me! Right now!”

Silence. Complete, terrifying silence.

But silence didn’t mean death. It meant distance. Mountains. Something blocking us.

“Tell me everything,” I snapped at the soldier, my voice shaking with barely controlled fury. “Right now. Every

single detail.”

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The poor kid looked like he might pass out. “Luna, I—”

“Talk! What exactly did you see?”

was just a boy, maybe nineteen at most-swallowed hard

destruction and apparent massacre at the camp where Damien and his team

been stationed.

I interrupted when he described finding the remnants of

what?” He blinked

sharp with forced authority. “How many actual bodies did

observe?”

there was blood. So much blood. And the camp was

how many bodies?” I pressed, feeling a spark of something that

“I… I didn’t… the smoke was so thick, and we had to retreat

coming. But Luna,

fight coming back into me. “We heal fast. We

humans. Blood just means

stared at me like I’d lost my mind. “Sera, even if that’s true, even

to dig in. Going after them

pacing behind the desk like a caged animal. “I’m planning to

seriously think you can lead a

whirled around, letting every bit of alpha power I had blast out. “Don’t you dare tell me what I can and can’t do! I’m

Marcus

and three more

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contact with two more

eastern perimeter has gone

my head. “How

one of them

waiting for news. Sixty warriors who might be dead or

go get them,” I said, my

“Every day we wait is another day they

could be-”

say it.

snapped. “Right now. Get

rescue op.”

the conference room was packed with the grimmest faces I’d ever seen. The

thick I could barely

said, standing at the head

down. Including the one with our Alpha King. I want

The room exploded.

voice shaking with fury. “It’s

he’s alive.”

table. “I’ll take a small team to

there’s even

this mission,” Marcus cut me off. “I won’t

a physical blow. Won’t allow

went pale but didn’t back down. “I’ve lost

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