Chapter 53: Chapter 53: No One Ever Knew Her

Author’s POV ~

Silence crashed over them like a tidal wave.

It wasn’t the kind of silence that settled softly or allowed breath to return—it was the kind that suffocated. That crushed ribs and stole air and made hearts forget how to beat.

No one moved or spoke. Not even Lucian dared to groan beneath the dagger pressed into his chest. Because the words she had just unleashed were not something that could be brushed off. They weren’t rage-fueled accusations or delusions born of pain.

They were the truth.

And that truth now hung in the room like a ghost, staring each of them down, refusing to be unseen.

She wasn’t his daughter.

She wasn’t Eirik Moonveil’s child.

She was his victim.

Kael staggered back, his breath hitching so violently it almost sounded like a choke. Luca stared at her like he had never seen her before, like she had become a stranger in the span of seconds, and not because she had changed—but because they had never truly known her to begin with.

And Aeron—dear gods, Aeron looked like the world had just split open beneath his feet. His shoulders sank, his jaw slack, as if everything he believed in had just been set on fire and left to rot in the ashes.

breath, but even he didn’t sound convinced. His hand rose to his temple, fingers trembling. "That... that can’t

let me," Selene cut in, her voice stripped of emotion now. Hollow. Like even her

struck harder than any blow could have. Because now they were


Now they remembered.

the Silver Fang Pack—Eirik’s mate—had died young. Murdered in a brutal attack that had shaken the entire region. They had all known of it. Had whispered about the madness of the Alpha, how he had lost control, and how he had turned feral

that memory returned through a new lens. Not

just a child, and her mother was killed in front of

her arms, not by rogues or invaders, but by the very man meant

But why?

the seed

knew Eirik Moonveil had no love to give. He wasn’t the kind to spare life out of pity. He didn’t take in strays. He didn’t raise other men’s children. He barely had enough heart to raise his

raise a child that

draining fast, but even in his haze, he could feel the tremble of something darker beginning to coil in his

"She tried to run. She tried to protect me. And he...

Aeron closed his eyes.

to see. He didn’t want to picture it. But his wolf did. His wolf saw it in vivid, brutal clarity. And that image of a small girl covered in her mother’s blood, shaking in a corner while the beast who had done it stood above her... It was enough to make even


daughter of a monster. But what if she was simply a girl left behind by a man

And suddenly everything twisted.

a secret. Why was she hidden all her life but suddenly

wasn’t Eirik’s daughter. She was

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