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The moon hung low over the northern woods, shrouded by a thin veil of cloud. The trees lining the road swayed restlessly, their branches whispering secrets in a language only wolves could understand. Inside the black SUV speeding down the gravel path, silence stretched taut between the two men in the front seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo Hale gripped the steering wheel with one hand, the other drumming impatiently against the window frame. Beside him, Kael Vale sat stiffly, eyes glued to the darkness beyond the windshield, lips drawn in a hard line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They were on their way to the Duskgrave ancestral home-a place rarely visited by outsiders, let alone disgraced heirs like Riley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But that wasn\u2019t what preoccupied Theo\u2019s mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a document he had stumbled upon three weeks ago while auditing medical archives for the Ebonclaw Pack\u2019s internal health registry. Most of the files were routine-vaccination records, bloodline verifications, combat injuries. But one name had caught his eye:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley Vale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had been just fifteen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And she\u2019d been in the pack hospital for a renal compatibility test.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo hadn\u2019t been able to stop thinking about it since.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At fifteen, Riley had just returned to the Ebonclaw Pack. Fresh from the Rogues. Unclaimed. Unwanted. The pack elders barely acknowledged her existence. So why had she been taken in for something as serious-and specific-as a kidney match test?\u00a0<\/p>\n
And if she had only gone in for testing\u2026 why did her current medical records show she was missing a kidney?\u00a0<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t standard. That wasn\u2019t something you just forgot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would a girl like her be evaluated for organ donation?\u201d Theo muttered under his breath, more to himself than to Kael.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kael, preoccupied, didn\u2019t respond. His brows were furrowed deep in thought, and his hands were clenched into fists on his lap. He\u2019d barely spoken since they left the hospital-only mentioned that they were going to find Riley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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And that this time, he wasn\u2019t going to fight her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was going to beg.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The idea of Kael Vale-once the heir of the Ebonclaw Pack, always proud and cold-lowering himself to beg his sister for anything, would\u2019ve been laughable if the circumstances weren\u2019t so grim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo gave him a sideways glance. \u201cSo\u2026 let me get this straight. You\u2019re going to ask Riley to help clean up Scarlett\u2019s mess?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kael sighed, his voice rough. \u201cScarlett was arrested. Theft. Apparently Riley reported her for stealing some ancient embroidery worth twenty million.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo\u2019s eyebrows shot up. \u201cTwenty million? Goddess. That\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly,\u201d Kael said, his voice rising. \u201cRiley\u2019s being petty. We all know she\u2019s still mad about the past, but dragging Scarlett into this? It\u2019s overkill.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo gave a dry laugh. \u201cPetty? You think being sold out and imprisoned is something people get over after a few years?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kael looked like he was about to argue, but then thought better of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo didn\u2019t press further. He didn\u2019t care to debate morality with someone who hadn\u2019t lived Riley\u2019s nightmare.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead, he returned to his thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley\u2019s kidney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her weakened wolf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He hadn\u2019t told anyone yet, but when he compared the hospital logs from Riley\u2019s time in the infirmary, he noticed something even more disturbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The timing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley\u2019s compatibility test had happened just one week before Scarlett underwent a mysterious \u201clife-saving operation\u201d that the pack never spoke of in detail. The files surrounding Scarlett\u2019s case were redacted-even for someone like Theo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take a genius to connect the dots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo\u2019s jaw clenched.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me something,\u201d he said suddenly, breaking the silence. \u201cWhy was Scarlett in the hospital a\u00a0<\/p>\n
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year after Riley came home? Didn\u2019t she have some kind of emergency surgery?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Kael shifted. \u201cYeah, some autoimmune thing. Her kidneys were failing. The elders said it was hereditary.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd she made a full recovery?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kael nodded. \u201cShe bounced back within months. Stronger than ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo said nothing, but his chest tightened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because someone else paid the price.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had no proof. Not yet. But his instincts screamed it: Riley hadn\u2019t just been mistreated. She\u2019d been used. Treated like a resource. Like livestock. They\u2019d taken her in not out of guilt or obligation-but because they needed something from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And she\u2019d given it, willingly or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHey,\u201d Kael said, his tone lighter, trying to shift the mood. \u201cDon\u2019t act like this is your battle. I\u2019m the one who screwed up with Riley. I\u2019ll talk to her. You\u2019re just along for the ride.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Theo forced a smile. \u201cYeah. Just here to make sure you don\u2019t run your mouth and get kicked out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kael chuckled, the first real sound of amusement he\u2019d made all night. \u201cFair.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Theo wasn\u2019t laughing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because he had too many questions and not enough answers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And deep down, he had the sinking feeling that the secret buried inside Riley\u2019s missing kidney- her fading wolf-might be the key to unraveling everything the Ebonclaw Pack had tried to\u00a0<\/p>\n
cover up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And if that meant breaking some laws? Burning down old alliances?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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