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.

anything. But the damn human girl is being pampered upstairs

streamed down her face as her

Cayden didn’t flinch.

her tightly, letting her cry into his chest while his hand

her. I’m already working on

voice was low, calm measured. The

the room was

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

behind, still clutching Hazel protectively

burst into

in jagged, smudged ink—no, blood—was a message

want your parents back. Try to be funny, and

breath came heavy, wild, like

growled, eyes glowing gold, " they dare to toy with her? To use Hazel like she’s a

fist into the council

Caspian didn’t flinch.

care who they have. I’m not letting them lay a single claw

alive—for now. If we don’t act,

were ice. "You think they’ll just give them back? This isn’t

not alone. We

barked. "She’s

her? You think this is easy for me? But we have one shot at this.

Caspian’s grip on her

other 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

pulsed with tension. Two

we’re not

toward the warriors

By nightfall... we tear

trembling. Her hair stuck to her face with sweat, and she looked like she’d been through hell... and still

her just before she hit the ground.

had to come," she whispered, barely audible. "The darkness inside me—it’s still there,

was already moving. "What is

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