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Chapter 707: A REASONABLE DECISION · Oct 05, 2026

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701 Chapter 701: THE WRAITH 2026-10-05
702 Chapter 702: AWAKE 2026-10-05
703 Chapter 703: THE RING 2026-10-05
704 Chapter 704: TEN MILLION FIREFLIESS 2026-10-05
705 Chapter 705: GOODBYE THE OTHER SIDE 2026-10-05
706 Chapter 706: THE WAY OUT 2026-10-05
707 Chapter 707: A REASONABLE DECISION 2026-10-05
708 Chapter 708: THE INTERRUPTION 2026-10-05
709 Chapter 709: THE BABY IS COMING 2026-10-05
710 Chapter 710: THE MASSACRE 2026-10-05
711 Chapter 711: FATHER DEAREST 2026-10-05
712 Chapter 712: AN END? 2026-10-05
713 Chapter 713: RETURN 2026-10-05
714 Chapter 714: SUNKEN PRINCESS 2026-10-05
715 Chapter 715: SIREN SONG 2026-10-05
716 Chapter 716: TWISTED DECISION 2026-10-05
717 Chapter 717: ARIA 2026-10-05
718 Chapter 718: A RESTLESS MOTHER 2026-10-05
719 Chapter 719: A TWIST OF FATE 2026-10-05
720 Chapter 720: RETURN 2026-10-05
721 Chapter 721: SUNKEN PRINCESS 2026-10-05
722 Chapter 722: SIREN SONG 2026-10-05
723 Chapter 723: TWISTED DECISION 2026-10-05
724 Chapter 724: RUBY 2026-10-05
725 Chapter 725: HEALER 2026-10-05
726 Chapter 726: THE ENCOUNTER 2026-10-05
727 Chapter 727: THE STRANGE BOY 2026-10-05
728 Chapter 728: THE PACK HOUSE 2026-10-05
729 Chapter 729: GOLDEN EAGLE 2026-10-05
730 Chapter 730: THE ENCOUNTER 2026-10-05
731 Chapter 731: DRAWN BLOOD 2026-10-05
732 Chapter 732: THE CHALLENGER 2026-10-05
733 Chapter 733: A BERATED WOLF 2026-10-05
734 Chapter 734: A SAD HOME 2026-10-05
735 Chapter 735: THE DREAM 2026-10-05
736 Chapter 736: RETRIBUTION 2026-10-05
737 Chapter 737: THE DEBT 2026-10-05
738 Chapter 738: AND WHEN THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY. 2026-10-05
739 Chapter 739: A MYSTERY 2026-10-05
740 Chapter 740: A MYSTERY II 2026-10-05
741 Chapter 741: THE ILL 2026-10-05
742 Chapter 742: INTRUDER 2026-10-05
743 Chapter 743: LADY IN THE LAKE 2026-10-05
744 Chapter 744: A BOLD CHOICE 2026-10-05
745 Chapter 745: A DARING MISTAKE 2026-10-05
746 Chapter 746: THE SICK SON 2026-10-05
747 Chapter 747: THE FUTURE ALPHA 2026-10-05
748 Chapter 748: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT 2026-10-05
749 Chapter 749: RUBY 2026-10-05
750 Chapter 750: OPPOSITE BROTHERS 2026-10-05

Chapter 707: A REASONABLE DECISION

TWO

The words tore out of me before I could soften them.

”No.”

Maelis stopped mid step.

The cavern seemed to inhale with her, the soft glow along the roots dimming just slightly as she turned back to me.

For the first time since I had met her, surprise crossed her face and she didn’t look pleased.

At all.

”No?” she echoed quietly. ”You were ready to leave moments ago.”

”I was,” I said, my voice shaking despite my effort to steady it. ”I thought I was. But I can’t. Not like this.”

She watched me carefully, saying nothing, giving me the space to speak or break.

I pressed a hand to my stomach, feeling the pressure against on my tummy.

”If I don’t unlock my wolf,” I continued, swallowing hard, ”I won’t be able to give birth to my son.”

Maelis’s brow furrowed.

I laughed weakly. ”I know what you’re thinking. You think it’s fear talking. But it isn’t.”

I drew in a slow breath, every memory clawing its way up.

”My last pregnancy...” My voice cracked, but I forced myself to go on. ”I lost the baby. I was only a few months along. They told me it was sudden. Unavoidable.”

I shook my head. ”That was a lie. My body couldn’t handle it. I nearly died.”

Maelis’s expression softened, but I couldn’t look at her.

”I bled for days,” I whispered. ”I couldn’t shift. Couldn’t heal. My pelvis... it wasn’t built for it. A wolf’s body changes for birth. Mine never did.”

My throat tightened painfully.

”This child isn’t just a baby,” I said. ”He’s a pup. And my body won’t be able to push him out like this.”. Maelis stepped closer, the glow at her fingertips gathering into a trembling white knot.

Silence pressed in around us, heavy and suffocating.

”I can’t leave if I can’t give birth to him,” I finished quietly. ”What’s the point of escape if my child dies along the way?”

Maelis exhaled slowly.

”You are the only one who can unlock your wolf,” she said at last. ”No one else can do it for you.”

I looked up sharply. ”Then you understand why I can’t run.”

Her gaze hardened, just slightly.

”And do you understand what you’re choosing instead?” she asked.

She stepped closer, her voice low but unyielding.

”Would you rather go back to your father? Let him use you until there is nothing left? Until your power is drained and you are discarded?”

My chest tightened.

”Is that what you want?” she pressed.

I said nothing.

The truth lodged too painfully in my ribs to be spoken aloud.

Maelis’s voice softened again, but the words cut deeper.

”And even if you survive,” she said, ”even if you give birth... he will take your son.”

My head snapped up.

”He will raise him as his own,” she continued. ”He will mold him. Train him. Feed him lies until your child becomes the very thing you are running from.”

My breath came shallow and fast.

”He will be used,” she said gently. ”And one day, he will be corrupted.”

I turned away, my vision blurring. The cavern walls swam as I stared into the glowing pools, my reflection fractured and unfamiliar.

I couldn’t speak.

Every future she described felt like a blade pressing closer to my throat.

Maelis rested a hand on my shoulder.

”You don’t have to decide alone,” she said quietly. ”But you must believe me when I say this: only you can unlock your wolf.”

I squeezed my eyes shut.

I had spent my entire life running from that truth.

From power.

From responsibility.

From the fear that if I opened myself fully, I would lose control and become something unrecognizable.

But motherhood didn’t allow for half choices.

Slowly, painfully, I nodded.

”Alright,” I whispered. ”We try.”

Maelis’s grip tightened, just briefly.

”Come,” she said.

She led me deeper into the cavern, past tunnels that narrowed and twisted, past doors reinforced with iron and stone. The air grew colder, heavier, buzzing faintly against my skin.

We stopped before a wall that looked solid at first glance. No handle. No seam.

Maelis raised her hand.

Power rippled outward.

I felt it like pressure in my ears, like the moment before a storm breaks. Symbols flared across the stone, ancient and sharp, glowing white-blue as she murmured words I couldn’t understand.

The wall shuddered.

Then split.

The chamber beyond was dark.

Moonlight poured in through narrow cracks in the ceiling, slicing the room into pale ribbons of silver.

In the center stood a high stone pedestal.

And atop it, a chest.

Large. Old. Reinforced with gold and sigils carved so deeply they looked wounded into the metal.

Before I could take another step, I felt it.

Heat.

A pulse that matched my heartbeat exactly.

The ruby glowed from within the chest, crimson light bleeding through the seams like something alive and waiting.

My stomach clenched violently.

”That’s...” My voice faltered.

”The red stone,” Maelis confirmed quietly.

Fear and awe tangled inside me as I stared at it, my body reacting before my mind could catch up. The emerald at my throat warmed in response, humming faintly against my skin.

”They were never meant to be separated,” Maelis said. ”Creation stones recognize each other.”

I took an unsteady step forward.

The light intensified.

My baby kicked hard, a sharp, urgent movement that stole my breath.

I pressed a hand to my belly instinctively.

”I feel it,” I whispered.

Maelis nodded. ”That is why we must be careful.”

I stopped just short of the pedestal, my legs trembling.

”If I unlock my wolf...” I swallowed. ”I don’t know what I’ll become.”

Maelis met my gaze steadily.

”You will become what you choose,” she said. ”Power doesn’t decide that. People do.”

The ruby pulsed again, brighter now, casting jagged shadows across the chamber walls.