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The room was still, the only sound being the rhythmic beeping of the medical equipment beside me. My body ached, my limbs felt Ike lead, but the pain was nothing compared to the weight pressing down on my chest.

Twenty days.

I had been unconscious for twenty days.

The reality of that was slowly sinking in, but I didn't have time to cess it before Rowena's voice pulled me back.

"There's something you need to know," she said, her expression grie

1 turned my head toward her, my heartbeat picking up. My mates were still close, hovering like they were afraid I'd disappear again. Elijah's fingers rested lightly against my arms, his touch grounding me

"What happened?" I croaked, my voice still taw.

Rowena exhaled, her brows furrowed in clear frustration and grief.

"After the Shadow Weaver nearly killed you, we thought... we thought that was it," she admitted. “She had the Keystone, she had Mother, and you were..." She swallowed hard, her gaze darkening

Tcould tell she was reliving it-the moment she must have thought had died.

Elijah's grip on my arm tightened, and I felt the tension in my mated as they, too, remembered that moment.

"We were ready to fight to the death," Austin said, his usual cocky affitude replaced with something far heavier.

Isaiah nodded, his jaw clenched. "If Rowena and her witches hadn't arrived when they did, we wouldn't be here talking to you."

I blinked. "The witches...?"

Rowena nodded, "Not all of them sided with the Children of the Eclipse. There were many of us who refused to bow to the Shadow Weaver. When we realized what was happening, we gathered what strength we had left and launched a counterattack.”

Her lips pressed into a thin line.

"We lost many of them," she murmured, pain flickering in her eyes.

Guilt curled in my gut. These were people who had fought and died trying to

protect us, and I had been lying here, unconscious, useless.

I clenched my fists. "I should have-

"No." Rowena cut me off, her voice firm. "You nearly died, Stormi. If you had been awake, you would have died."

I knew she was

that didn't make the

happened after that?" I asked, forcing

further. "That's... not the worst

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chill ran down my

Weaver is nonger hiding in the shadows. She's making her move-and she's not lust using

frowned, "What do you

then sighed. "The human governments have know about us for

I frope.

"What?"

our existence, long as we stayed in the shadows. But now,

sickening feeling settled

was tight. They're capturing werewolves,

My breath hitched. "What?"

rounding them up entire packs, families-and sending

vision blurred with

My voice

words made

into umbrakins, thers

bio-weapons."

Silence.

A heavy, suffocating silence.

can't survive that kind of transformation. The

she confirmed. "Most of them aren't

didn't finish. She didn't

trembled as

Weaver wasn't just spreading her darkness through witches and rogue packs-she

them to her will.

have to stop this," I said,

are," Elijah said,

to

he explained. "We've been breaking into

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as we can and bringing them

finally realizing the space we were in wasn't just

a

fields. It's hidden beneath the