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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."

but I knew

make the

happened after that?" I

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

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chill ran

is changing." she continued. "The Shallow Weaver is nonger hiding in the shadows. She's making

"What do

governments have know about us

I frope.

"What?"

existence, long as we stayed in the shadows. But

feeling settled in my

was tight. They're

My breath hitched. "What?"

at her sides. "They're rounding them up entire packs, families-and sending them to

vision blurred with

My voice was low,

next words made my blood run

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

bio-weapons."

Silence.

A heavy, suffocating silence.

Werewolves can't survive that kind

she confirmed. "Most of them aren't surviving the process. But the

finish. She

fist trembled as

through witches and rogue packs-she was using the humans now,

them to her will.

I said, my voice filled with anger and

already are," Elijah said, his

turned to

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

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can and bringing them

finally realizing the space we were

a bunker," i

football fields. It's hidden beneath the ruins of your family's