Chapter 16

Kieran’s POV

I didn’t even notice when morning came. All night, I’d been hunched over the desk, drawing and redrawing war strategies, scanning the map over and over, until the lines blurred, plotting every possible weak point of attack. I needed to find a way to end this.

End Magnus.

He took my parents and sister.

I won’t let him take Elara too–Never.

A knock broke through my thoughts. Tobias stepped into the room.

“Fuck, Kieran! Why do you look like that?” He rushed over, eyes wide, and pressed a hand to my forehead.

I swatted his hand away, jaw tight. “I’m fine. What do you have for me?”

He paused, watching me too carefully. “Alex caught a wolf trying to escape this morning.”

I snapped my head up so fast, that the room tilted slightly, and Tobias instinctively reached out to steady me. I shoved his hand away again.

“Where’s he?”

“We took him to the dungeon.”

“Let’s go.”

There was no time to waste.