Ace's POV:
We head back to the castle for safety. We needed to. I had to keep Skye safe from Damien and from the alpha.
Silas and I both agreed that we both needed to do more extensive research on Skye. We were missing something. We needed answers, so we made a pact that we would look through everything.
The archives smell like dust and old blood.
No one comes here anymore. Not unless they’re looking for something the court doesn’t want remembered.
I move past war ledgers. Execution lists. Lineage maps burned at the edges.
Then I find it.
A sealed record stamped with the ancient crest — pre-Phoenix reign.
The word Stone carved into the wax.
I break it.
The parchment inside is brittle. The ink darker than it should be.
The first line still reads clearly.
“The Stone lineage is n
