Chapter 189

Jaxon POV

The moment Kairo said those words, all hell broke loose inside me. Not the kind that roars through you like wildfire, but the quiet, creeping kind that slinks down your spine and coils in your chest until you can’t breathe. I stared at him, barely able to register the words.

“Callen is an illegitimate child.”

It didn’t even make sense at first. My brain couldn’t catch up to the reality clawing its way out of Kairo’s mouth. Illegitimate. Callen. What the fuck was he saying?

I didn’t even ask how he found me in Callen’s old room. Or how he slipped past the security measures I’d reinstated this week. The Pack Tower wasn’t some friendly community hall, Kairo knew damn well he wasn’t welcome here anymore. Still, there he stood, pale under the moonlight filtering through the window, like a ghost from the past d