Sophia’s gaze was focused on a spot about a hundred yards away. She had already shifted into her wolf form, as everybody else had, ready to ambush the hybrids when they appeared.They had separated into four groups divided among her, Miller, Henry, and Ethan. From her spot, Sophia had a direct view to one of the spots Eleanor had mentioned for Grace’s benefit.If the hybrids took the bait, Sophia and her group would spot them the moment they made a move. So far, they had been waiting for about half an hour, but there was still no news or instructions from Eleanor.“Any news from Alpha Eleanor?” she asked Miller through their mind-link.“No,” he replied back. He sounded way more calm than she felt. “If anything goes wrong, she’ll let us know,” he added.Sophia just wanted to know whether Mia was present or not. But she did not say that out loud. She knew Eleanor was not the only one who worried that she might forget the plan if she caught sight of the woman. The last thing she needed w

Once Ethan was done dealing with the hybrids he had been facing off, he ventured into the forest to look for Sophia. When he found her, she had her hands wrapped around Mia’s throat, strangling her.Mia’s eyes were bulging while her hands lay limp at her sides, too far gone to fight back. Her clothes were covered in blood and her face was badly bruised and swollen.Ethan shifted back to his human form quickly and ran to Sophia. “Stop!” he yelled at her. “Sophia, do not kill her!”Sophia’s eyes were full of hate and fury as she looked coldly at Mia’s face. “She deserves to die.”“She does,” Ethan agreed, hoping it wasn’t too late. “But not now. She can die after she tells us where the rest of them are.”Sophia’s brows pulled together, but she did not release her grip.“Sophia, listen to me. You’ll do whatever you want with her, but we have to question her first. We have her now, and she won’t get away again. She’ll pay for what she did, but we need her alive right now.”Sophia finally

After searching the area around the border and not finding any signs of Jonathan or Eleanor, the others went back to Eleanor’s pack.They brought Mia back with them, determined to get the truth out of her before she had to pay for what she had done.They detained her in an interrogation room and Ethan and Miller teamed up against her first.“Has she said anything?” Henry asked when Ethan left the room later. He had been busy organising defence for Darkfall and hadn’t managed to watch the interrogation.Ethan shook his head. “Not yet. She maintains that she does not know where Jonathan took Eleanor.”Henry opened the door and walked into the room. Mia was sitting on one side of the table in the room. The room was like a concrete box with no openings once the door was closed. Mia looked up when Henry walked in, but only for a moment.“You are still not talking, huh?” Henry asked, standing on the other side of the table. “How much longer do you think you’ll be alive if you don’t talk? Or

“How did you get that video?” Henry asked Thomas as soon as he walked out of the interrogation room.“That part of the forest was once my territory,” Thomas explained. “I had installed cameras to monitor intruders and they are still in place and I get the feeds on my side.”“Do you have the entire footage? Maybe we can find something about Eleanor,” Henry suggested. “Sophia said that she saw Jonathan taking her away.”“I do,” Thomas replied. “I’ll go fetch it.”After Thomas got the drive with the entire footage, they went to watch it in the lounge room.It was hours long and they skipped to the part where Mia and Sophia were fighting. A few minutes after the scene where Thomas had pasued the video while showing it to Mia, Eleanor came into view.She looked prepared to join the fight but before she could, Jonathan sneaked up from behind and covered her face with a cloth.Sophia turned to look towards the commotion but did nothing to help Eleanor. Instead, she kept fighting Mia while Jo

Before Eleanor could talk to the girl, Jonathan walked out of the house and onto the courtyard.Everybody, the girls and the guards included, stopped what they were doing and stood on alert, heads bowed and trembling in fear.Eleanor was the only one who watched him as he made his way over until he was standing right in front of her. He smiled at her before raising his voice to address everyone in the courtyard.“Everybody, I want you to meet Eleanor,” he said. The bowed heads rose in sync and every pair of eyes in the courtyard focused on her. While everyone watched, Jonathan reached forward and took her hand. “Eleanor is my Luna from today and should be treated and respected as such.”Gasps rose from the girls, and Eleanor could feel eyes digging into her like lasers. Just a few moments ago, she had declared that she was not here to vie for Jonathan’s attention and even said she was not his mate.Now, here he was, declaring that she was his Luna. What was he playing at? What happene