Beneath the Crescent Mark
Chapter 29
**Ravyn**
From her position at the lodge window, Ravyn watched the forest with enhanced senses that picked up every flutter of movement in the darkness. The crossbow felt solid and familiar in her hands, six hybrid venom darts loaded and ready. Through the mate bond, she could feel Grayson’s steady presence somewhere in the trees below, along with the larger pack consciousness that connected every defender.
The silence was unnatural, pressing against her eardrums like water. Even the insects had gone quiet.
Then she saw them.
Pale figures moving between the trees with inhuman grace, spreading out in a coordinated pattern that spoke of military precision. Valerius’s forces, thinking they were approaching an unprepared target.
“Contact confirmed,”
