Chapter 25

Alex

Another week passed without an attack, and somehow that only made me more anxious. After everything Erin had done, I knew silence rarely meant safety—it usually meant the enemy was waiting.

Weston threw himself into the investigation, refusing to let anyone else handle a case that now looked tied to dark magic and Bethy’s death. He reinforced security around Mooncrest, revamped patrol schedules, and personally reviewed every scrap of evidence on Sebastiano.

Roland joined the hunt, too. I’d been surprised to learn he’d once worked as a private investigator for wealthy humans, but it explained his knack for details everyone else missed.

While Weston secured the lake, Roland traced connections between missing people, artificial rogues, and Sebastiano’s experiments.

With each discovery, the picture grew more horrifying. Sebastiano wasn’t just creating monsters; he was building an army—and every soul in that army had a family: a daughter, a broth