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CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED & SIXTEEN 

Jason’s POV 

I reached the bathroom in a suite three corridors away from the dining hall before the first wave hit. My hands shook as I dropped to my knees in front of the toilet, breath ragged, and threw up. I kept vomiting for the next ten minutes, panic rising with each convulsion. Cold sweat soaked through my shirt before the second wave hit; my heart hammered in my chest. 

Mushrooms. 

She had fed me mushrooms, and like a fool, I let her. By the time I realized what was going on, my throat had started to tighten, and my skin had already started to itch. I couldn’t let her see me react like that, so I fled before she noticed. 

Now, slumped against the cold bathroom wall, heart pounding, shame burning behind my eyelids, I tried to slow my breathing. 

‘She knows. She did this on purpose,’ my wolf barked. ‘She tried to kill us!’ 

Maybe. The allergy was not a secret she had found out by accident. It was a confession I had made to her in private, and she had carried it carefully for as long as we were together. Remembering that trust made my heart ache. For a moment, beneath the anger and humiliation, I almost missed the way she used to look at me when she tried to keep me safe. 

‘She used our feelings against us. She tried to kill us,’ my wolf repeated. 

‘But she didn’t,’ I said. 

Unfortunately for Talia, my food allergy hadn’t killed me. My father had spent years forcing mushrooms into my food when I was a boy. He called it forcing the allergy out of me. It nearly killed me more than once. I hated him for it then, and for a long time after. Now, sitting in this bathroom with my throat tight but not closing, the irony was not lost on me. His torture had saved my life. Once again, the old man was protecting me in his own twisted way. 

‘Your plan is failing,’ my wolf repeated, pulling me out of my thoughts. ‘We should just give her to the Rogue King.’ 

‘Or Nolan has poor taste in cuisine,’ I countered. ‘The Rogue King said the spell would make sure it cloaked everything. There is no way for her to see through it. Talia would not have ordered the dish to 

test me because there is no test to run.’ 

‘You don’t know that,’ my wolf growled. ‘You don’t think that it is too much of a coincidence that Nolan’s favorite dish had mushrooms in it?’ 

‘She thinks I’m Nolan. She was being affectionate.’ 

‘Once again, you refuse to believe the reason!’ 

‘I am keeping the possibility open. There is a difference,’ I argued. 

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I made myself replay the meal. I thought about how she smiled and how she talked about spending more time together. All of her reactions had been normal. My answers to her questions were perfect, but something gave me pause. 

‘Her responses were too accepting,’ my wolf said, which was what I was thinking. ‘She went from upset to calm too fast. She stopped pushing after the scent question. That is not Talia.’ 

My wolf had a point. When things didn’t make sense, Talia was not the type to let it go until she figured it 

out. 

I opened the mind-link to the Rogue King. I could feel his irritation almost immediately. 

‘Jason, what do you want this time?!’ 

‘I need to know if the spell is failing.’ 

‘It is not failing,’ he responded with an annoyed tone. 

‘How can you be so sure?’ I questioned. ‘I believe Talia is testing me because she doesn’t believe I’m 

Nolan.’ 

‘She knows nothing. To her, you are Nolan. To her, this house is Bloodmoon. Morgana was very clear that unless you died, she would only see the illusion,’ the Rogue King explained. 

‘Then how did she…’ 

‘You are wasting my time with your paranoia!’ the Rogue King snapped. ‘I am not your father. I will not continue to humor your delusions!’ 

I did not answer for a moment. I wasn’t sure what I was doing by reaching out to him. I didn’t need him to think I could follow through with our plan. 1 

‘You are wasting time on her,’ the Rogue King said before I had the chance to respond. ‘You have been wasting time on her since you took her. Kill her. Move on to Silverfang and take the territory. You get your revenge that way. You do not get it by playing house with her.’ 

‘I am not playing house with her.’ 

The Rogue King scoffed. ‘You could have fooled me.’ 

‘I just need Talia to trust me long enough to break her guard; everything else will fall into place.’ 

‘Time? You have an obsession.’ 

‘I have a plan, and we have a deal. You help me become Alpha King, and I give you the pack territories you have been after for years. The deal does not change.’ 

I closed the mind-link before he could respond. 

Maybe the Rogue King was right. I could just be paranoid. The kitchen would not have known about my allergy, nor would Talia be able to see through the illusion enough to test whether I was the real Nolan. 

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Or maybe my wolf was right. 

I could not tell yet. I could not afford to assume either way. Every move I made from this point forward had to be carefully planned. 

I was going to take revenge. I was going to take it on her, Solon, and especially Nolan. 

I was going to ruin Talia completely for betraying me. 

And I was going to start by marking her tonight. 

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