He quickly caught up to her and reached for her wrist, stopping her just before she could pass Zion, who was still standing several dozen feet away from where the others had been moments ago.
Addison stopped.
Her brows were tightly drawn together, and her eyes gleamed with unmistakable murderous intent.
The moment everyone noticed it, the atmosphere around them shifted.
Whatever Addison had just heard through the mindlink, it clearly wasn’t good.
Maxwell stepped forward, his expression turning serious. "Addie," he urged, his voice calm but firm, "just tell us what’s going on. Whatever it is, you don’t have to deal with it alone. We’ll help you in any way we can."
Addison remained silent for a moment, her jaw tightening as something dangerous flickered behind her eyes.
Addison didn’t answer immediately. Instead, her gaze lifted and landed directly on Leon. "I just received a report from my father," she said, her voice low and grim. "Your warriors have been ambushed."
She didn’t need to say anything else. The weight of those words alone was enough to make everyone understand just how serious the situation had suddenly become.
Someone had actually dared to attack the Tigren Clan’s warriors, inside werewolf territory.
And the timing was far too convenient to be a coincidence.
The enemy had made their intentions painfully clear. They didn’t want Addison gaining any more power, influence, or support than she already had. And now, rather than sitting back and watching her alliance with the Tigren Clan grow stronger, they had chosen to make a move.
A bold, dangerous one at that.
Zion, Maxwell, and Levi immediately understood why Addison’s expression had changed so abruptly and why she had suddenly turned back as if the truth waiting ahead she was about to reveal no longer mattered.
An ambush wasn’t something that could be ignored.
In an instant, the secret Addison had been preparing to reveal, and the truth Zion had spent the past several minutes struggling to face, was pushed to the back of their minds.
Even Zion, who had only just managed to prepare himself for the worst, didn’t utter a single complaint when everything suddenly came to a halt.
Because he understood.
This was bigger.
Their enemy was no longer hiding quietly in the shadows.
The ambush itself wasn’t merely an attack on the Tigren Clan. It was a warning directed at Addison, and at everyone who was considering standing beside her.
They were making a statement.
They were trying to cut off Addison’s growing influence before it became too powerful to control. They wanted to weaken her support, shake the confidence of those allied with her, and make everyone think twice before choosing her side.
And more than anything, they were trying to get inside her head.
This was a mental battle.
Their enemy was still hidden, their identities and motives obscured by the darkness, but that was precisely what made the situation more dangerous. By launching an unexpected ambush while remaining unseen, they were trying to create uncertainty, to make Addison and everyone around her question where the next attack would come from.
They wanted them unsettled and on edge while looking over their shoulders.
They wanted to weaken Addison before they ever had to face her directly.
And with this ambush, their message had finally become impossible to ignore and this shows that the enemy was done waiting.
With this sudden ambush carried out right under their noses, their hidden enemy was doing far more than simply attacking the Tigren Clan. They were making a statement, a blatant, arrogant challenge directed straight at Addison.
This was Addison’s territory, yet their enemy had just proven that they did not give a damn.
They were silently telling her, ’This may be your turf, but that doesn’t mean you’re safe here. We can reach whoever we want, whenever we want, wherever we want, and there isn’t a damn thing you can do to stop us.’
And this attack was the proof.
The message was clear enough to put enormous pressure on Addison, but that was only part of the attack. The real damage would spread through the minds of everyone watching. Those who had chosen to stand behind Addison, or those still considering whether to support her, would inevitably begin to question their decision.
’If the Tigren Clan can be targeted while standing beside her, what the hell would stop them from coming after us next?’
That was precisely what their hidden enemy wanted.

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