Chapter 55: Baby is here!

*~Author’s POV~*

There were no signs of a struggle. No blood. No broken walls. Not even a single overturned chair.

So who the hell took them?

The only proof anyone had even entered the High House was that Cyrius’s coffin had been tampered with. The door to the room was wide open... but beyond that?

Nothing.

"What the actual hell happened?" he muttered, pacing back and forth.

My heart thudded loud in my chest, panic dancing along my spine. My mind was spinning, but I kept it together—for now.

"I’m sure it’s that Natasha girl," Elder Gina snapped from the corner, arms folded, eyes narrowed with suspicion. "She’s always had something off about her. I said it the day she arrived here. I should’ve..."

"Stop." Caspian turned sharply. "I trust that girl with my life. Natasha wouldn’t do something like this."

Gina raised a brow, unconvinced. But I wasn’t here to debate her feelings.

"For clarity," Caspian said firmly, "let’s visit the Gilbert estate. If Natasha really is missing, then this isn’t about betrayal it’s something bigger."

But before my suggestion could even settle in the room, the High House doors flew open.

Every head turned.

The Gilberts strolled in, right on cue Marcus leading the way, his expression unreadable, while his wife followed behind him, eyes red and puffy from crying.

She didn’t hesitate.

The second she saw Cayden, she rushed toward him with desperation in every step. Correct content is on

"You!" she choked, slamming her fists against his chest. "I gave you my daughter. Even when you chose another when you refused to take her as your Luna and reduced her to a mistress..I still gave her to you. I let her love you. And now..."

Her voice cracked.

entire day... and no one is saying anything. But the damn human girl is being pampered upstairs

her face as her

Cayden didn’t flinch.

her cry into his chest while his hand gently

"I promise we’ll find her. I’m

was low, calm measured. The

the room was still. Broken,

came sprinting down the hallway, breath ragged and panic etched across his face. "Something’s written

him like a beast unchained. Caspian followed close behind, still clutching Hazel protectively against his chest. Her body remained limp, her face pale, as if the battle

into the

far wall, scrawled in jagged, smudged ink—no, blood—was a message that stopped the air in

the outskirts of New Orleans by sunset... if you want your parents

cracking. His breath came heavy, wild, like his wolf was already clawing

gold, " they dare to toy with her? To

slammed his fist into the council table, shattering

Caspian didn’t flinch.

not handing her over," he said flatly, his voice cold and sharp. "I don’t care who they have. I’m not

on him. "That’s our parents, Caspian! They’re alive—for now. If we don’t act, they won’t stay

hand Hazel over, what then?" Caspian’s eyes were ice. "You think they’ll just give them back? This isn’t a negotiation. It’s a

take Hazel, we go to the outskirts like they asked—but we’re not alone. We bring every damn warrior we have, every blade, every spellcaster. We show up to that meeting and we

barked. "She’s not

is easy for me?

grip on her tightened. "We’ll

way!" Cayden shouted. "We take her. We’ll be there. We’re not giving her up—we’re bringing her to the frontlines. We protect her, and

room pulsed with tension. Two brothers, burning with the

we’re

the

tear the damn

her cloak barely clinging to her shoulders, her lips pale and trembling. Her hair stuck to her face with sweat, and

her just before

she whispered, barely audible. "The darkness inside

already moving. "What

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