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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

didn't make the

after that?" I asked, forcing myself to

darkened even further. "That's...

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chill ran down my

Weaver is nonger hiding in the shadows. She's

frowned, "What

"The human governments have know about us for

I frope.

"What?"

known. They tolerated our existence, long as we stayed in the shadows. But now, for the sake of peace with the Shadow Weaver, they've chosen a

settled in my

jaw was tight. They're capturing werewolves,

My breath hitched. "What?"

clenched at her sides. "They're rounding them up entire packs,

blurred with

My voice

made

says they're being turned into umbrakins, thers being used

bio-weapons."

Silence.

A heavy, suffocating silence.

it. "That's... not possible. Werewolves can't survive that kind of transformation. The umbrakins are made of shadow

confirmed. "Most of them aren't

She

fist trembled as I gritted my

spreading her darkness through witches and rogue packs-she was

them to her will.

stop this," I said, my voice filled with anger

already are," Elijah said, his golden eyes

to him,

been out, we've formed rescue teams," he explained. "We've been breaking into

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as we can and bringing

the space we were in wasn't just a

a

one-bigger than two football fields. It's hidden