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.

missing for an entire day... and no one is saying anything. But

down her face as her fists

Cayden didn’t flinch.

held her tightly, letting her cry into his

"I promise we’ll find her. I’m already working on it. My parents

measured. The Alpha

for a moment, the room

sprinting down the hallway, breath ragged and panic etched across his face. "Something’s written in the council room!"

storming past him like a beast unchained. Caspian followed close behind, still clutching Hazel protectively against his chest.

burst into the council

in jagged, smudged ink—no, blood—was a message that stopped the air in every throat:

the baby to the outskirts of New Orleans by sunset... if you want your parents back. Try to be funny, and you’ll

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

gold, " they dare to toy

the council table, shattering

Caspian didn’t flinch.

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

They’re alive—for now. If we don’t act, they

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

trap," Cayden growled. "We take Hazel, we go to the outskirts like they asked—but we’re not alone. We bring every damn warrior we

not using her as bait," Caspian barked. "She’s not a damn pawn...she’s pregnant.

toward him, voice trembling with fury. "Do you think I want to risk her? You think this is easy for me? But

on her

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

with tension. Two brothers, burning with the

we’re not handing

turned toward the

we tear the damn bastard’s head

lips pale and trembling. Her hair stuck to her face with sweat, and she looked like she’d been

just before she hit the

barely audible. "The darkness inside me—it’s

moving.

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