Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Retribution Begins at the Edge

He was so close...so damn close.

But before he could reach them, before he could even stretch out his hand to catch a glimpse of her, he had already transferred in the air to catch her.

But a wall of bodies crashed into him.

He slammed against the ground, his body skidding across the dirt and stopping just inches from the cliff’s edge. Snarling, he tried to rise, to leap after her—but hands gripped him, rough and unrelenting.

Pack warriors.

They pinned him down, holding his limbs, his shoulders, his throat—anything to keep him from throwing himself over the ledge.

"LET ME GO!" he roared, thrashing with every ounce of strength in him. "She’s falling—SHE’S—!"

But they didn’t loosen their grip.

Because they knew.

Anyone who jumped wouldn’t survive.

The others were caught too. Lucian roared like a beast betrayed by the world itself, thrashing against the hands that held him. His claws slashed through flesh, but still they didn’t let him go.

"LET ME GO!" he howled. "SHE’S DOWN THERE—SHE’S—LET ME F*CKING GO!"

But they wouldn’t.

Kael and Luca fought just as fiercely, their voices breaking as they screamed her name, watching the edge like it would answer them. But nothing came.


Just endless silence.

place no one had ever dared to go. A pit where even light

one had returned

"She’s gone," someone whispered.

of the

They couldn’t.

it felt like their

the moon had shattered and fallen from the

They had failed to protect her, their

blood pouring from his mouth as he coughed and screamed into the dirt. Kael stood frozen, his wolf fading beneath

into the ground again and again until they bled. And Aeron... Aeron just stared at the cliff,

he

only thing that answered them


scent of blood still clung to the

alive with chaos, now lay in eerie stillness—littered with the mangled corpses of rogue werewolves, their bodies twisted and torn, strewn across the earth like discarded shadows of the

It was over.

with brutal precision. Every rogue that remained had been slain, and the few who still clung to breath were dragged to the center—forced to shift

their knees, heads

blood-soaked bodies, his face streaked with sweat and gore, but his expression was calm and

No one who’s jumped has ever come back. That

Aeron didn’t respond.

still, rooted near the edge of the cliff, his jaw clenched, eyes locked on the abyss like it might still give her back. His shoulders heaved with ragged breaths, but

Until he finally spoke.

his voice low and final. "Take Lucian back to the packhouse. Treat his wounds. Get Kael and Luca out of this forest. Gather warriors

of him. "With all due respect, Alpha, we cannot allow you

I’m not leaving her to die alone in


blood dripping from his mouth as he thrashed again. "Let me go! I’ll

with fury and grief. "You’re bleeding out. You can barely stand. If you go down there now, you won’t survive ten steps. Don’t

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