ATASHA’S POV


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    Jack’s ws grazed the edge of my shoulder instead of tearing into my chest. Pain red, but I didn’t stop. My hand scrambled across the ground until itnded on a jagged rock. I hurled it as hard as I could, striking his arm mid–swing.


    He growled, recoiling with a harsh curse, staggering slightly from the impact. But he wasn’t done. He lunged again, eyes wild, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to dodge in time.


    Then a sharp crack echoed through the cave.


    Another rock mmed into the side of his head, throwing his body off course. He stumbled, blinking in confusion, and I caught sight of the small boy who’d thrown it, his face tight with anger, his hand already reaching for another.


    That was when the others joined in.


    A second rock struck Jack’s shoulder. Then another hit his leg. He spun around, snarling, trying to locate the source<i>, </i>but they were everywhere now. Children, the same ones I had just healed, were picking up rocks, some as small as fists, others the size of a loaf of bread, and hurling them with all the strength their small bodies could manage.


    The hits keptnding, against his back, his ribs, his arms. Jack cursed and staggered, trying to swat them away. One stone bounced off his jaw, splitting his lip open. Blood sprayed from his


    mouth.


    He turned, eyes locking onto a girl near the edge. She froze.


    Jack lunged toward her, but he never reached her.


    Aries tackled him from the side with the full force of his body, mming Jack to the ground with a thud that echoed across the stone. The boy moved fast for his size, pinning Jack’s arms before he could recover.


    Then came the final blow.


    The Alpha–blooded boy, who had been quiet until now, stepped forward from the shadows, his eyes burning with something ancient and savage. He climbed onto Jack’s waist, gripping arge rock in both hands. Without a word, he brought it down on Jack’s head.


    Once, twice.


    Three times.


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    Each strike came with a sickening crunch, and blood spattered across the boy’s face, across the floor, across the wall behind them. Jack’s body writhed beneath him, then began to twitch less


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    Still, the rock came down.


    Again.


    And again.


    Until Jack no longer moved.


    Until his skull had cracked open and blood soaked the stone beneath him.


    Then the other children joined in. Some screamed, others cried, but they didn’t hesitate. Small fists and jagged rocks rained down on Jack’s body, his arms, his chest, his legs. It was messy. Brutal. Unrelenting. Bones snapped. Flesh tore.


    And I… I couldn’t look away.


    I didn’t know what these children had been through, what they had suffered in this ce, but in that moment, I understood one thing clearly. They had seen hell. And they weren’t going to be victims anymore.


    Eventually, the chaos slowed. The Alpha–blooded boy finally climbed off Jack’s body, now a torn, bloodied mass that barely resembled the arrogant, sneering son of Beta William. Aries stood beside him, panting, knuckles scraped and red.


    “We should leave,” Aries said calmly, as if what had just happened was nothing more than a necessary task.


    I nodded, pushing myself to my feet, my legs still unsteady. My gaze flicked in the direction Cassian had gone. The sh of weapons still echoed from beyond the cave walls.


    “He’s still fighting,” I said, turning to face the children now watching me. “We’re not done yet. Go that way, there should be an entrance. Run and then wait for us at the end, I needed to get him”


    They looked at me in silence.


    “Go! What are you waiting forth”


    “We’re not leaving,” the Alpha blooded boy spoke. “Come with us.


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    “I- “I paused. “I can’t leave my husband behind” That seemed to change their expressions.


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    He didn’t hesitate. With the briefest nce at the distraction, he pivoted, driving his de into the exposed ribs of one attacker, then spinning low to gut another. A third lunged at him with twin daggers, but he twisted out of reach, grabbing the man by the throat and mming him down so hard the stone cracked beneath the body.


    Three dead.


    For a moment, none of us moved. Then I stepped forward, approaching Cassian. He was still on alert, eyes narrowed, but when I touched his chest, he didn’t flinch.


    My palm pressed against his sternum. A soft pulse of energy pushed outward from my hand, seeping into his body. I could feel the toxin burning through his veins, chewing at his muscles, slowing his heart. But it hadn’t rooted deeply. I chased it down, pulled it out, healed the torn flesh beneath the poisoned gashes, sealed them until they were nothing more than fading scars.


    “You didn’t leave,” he said.


    “Don’t speak. I’m healing you.” The words came out sharper than I intended, and regret settled in my chest the moment I said them. How could I speak to him like that, after everything? I took a step back, eyes lowering slightly. “And how could I ever leave my husband behind?” I added quietly, fully aware of the weight in his gaze as it settled on me.


    Then a flicker of a smile ghosted across his lips. “Good.”


    He turned to look behind me. The children stood in rows, some blood–spattered, others still clutching rocks with trembling hands. “We need to leave,” he said. “Now.”


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