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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

the guilt any easier

I asked,

further. "That's... not the

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ran

in the shadows. She's making her move-and she's not lust using witches

frowned, "What do

"The human governments have know

I frope.

"What?"

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

sickening feeling settled in

jaw was tight.

My breath hitched. "What?"

"They're rounding them up entire packs, families-and sending them to

blurred with

My voice

made my

into umbrakins, thers being used as

bio-weapons."

Silence.

A heavy, suffocating silence.

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

she confirmed. "Most of them aren't surviving

She

trembled as I

witches and rogue

them to her will.

this," I said, my voice

already are," Elijah said, his golden eyes

to

we've formed rescue teams," he explained. "We've been breaking into the military camps,

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can

the space we were in wasn't just

is a

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