Chapter: Chapter One Hundred and One - The Wards Tremble Aria’s weight in my arms should have soothed me.It didn’t.Every step toward the estate only sharpened the fury threading through my veins, tempering it into something colder, more lethal. Not rage anymore.Purpose.The kind that doesn’t fade. The kind that ends with bodies on the ground.Aria exhaled against my collarbone, soft, steadying. She was trying to calm me and her, the one who’d been ambushed, who should’ve been clinging to consciousness instead of worry over what storm she’d woken in me.I tightened my hold anyway.She felt too light. Too breakable. And the magic clinging to her skin was wrong, like frost crawling across warm glass.The Devourer’s touch always left a residue.And I hated that I could feel it on her.When we broke through the last line of trees, the estate lights flared across her face, painting gold across the bruised imprint on her arm.My wolf snarled inside me.Aria stirred. “Kael… you don’t have to carry me. I can walk.”“You’re staying where you are,”
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Chapter: Chapter One Hundred - The Monster Beneath My Skin( Kael’s POV ) The night tasted like iron.I felt it before I heard it, Aria’s pulse, sharp and wrong, spiking through the bond like a blade dragged across the inside of my ribs. I was only halfway across the estate grounds when it hit me, the sensation slamming into my spine hard enough that my knees nearly buckled.Not fear.Not pain.A bruise, dark cocktail of both, wrapped in something I hated more than any enemy I’d ever faced. Helplessness. Hers.The moment it flared, everything human in me snapped backward like a yanked chain.The wolf surged forward.I didn’t fight it.I let it take me.One second I was running upright, breaths ripping through my lungs, the next I was hitting the ground on all fours, claws carving deep gouges into the dirt as I launched myself forward. Branches slapped my fur, stones shredded under my weight, and still it wasn’t fast enough, I could feel her slipping.Her heartbeat stuttered.Aria—The bond thrummed, thin as spider silk, barely holding.I pu
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Chapter: Chapter Ninty Nine - What Wakes in the Dark Aria’s POVThe Remnant’s scream still echoed inside my bones.Even after it vanished, and dragged back through the cracked stone like a shadow fleeing the sun, the sound lingered in the air, in my chest, in the tremble of my fingers.Kael hadn’t let go of my hand.Not once.He stood in front of me like he expected the wall to split open again, like the entire temple might try to swallow me if he blinked. Magic still flickered under his skin, thin, volatile sparks, and every so often he winced, barely noticeable.Except to me.“Kael,” I whispered, “you’re hurt.”“I’m fine.”He wasn’t.A Remnant had tried to hollow him out from the inside. No one was fine after that.But I didn’t push yet.I couldn’t.Not while the room still felt like a held breath waiting to collapse.Lira rose shakily from the floor, wiping blood from her nose. “We need to move,” she said, voice thin. “Now. Before something else decides to try its luck.”Kael didn’t look at her. His gaze stayed locked on the cracked
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Chapter: Chapter Ninty Eight - Teeth of the Remnant( Kael’s POV )The wards screamed.Not with sound, wards never screamed with sound, but with pressure, a sickening shift in the air that told me something ancient and starving was pushing its way into our world.Aria’s fingers tightened in mine.Too cold.Too fragile.Too important.I didn’t let go.Lira stumbled back from the cracked wall, sigils still burning faintly across her palms. “Kael, it’s halfway through the veil—”“I know.” My voice was steady, but inside my chest something was tearing itself apart. “Stay behind me.”A snarl rose in my throat before I could stop it. A response. Instinctive. Territorial. The same instinct that had been pulling at me ever since Aria’s second heartbeat started syncing to mine.But now it roared.The stone split wider.Black fog poured through the crack with no shape, no form, just hunger made visible. It crawled across the floor like spilled oil, tendrils tasting the air, reaching for—Her.Always her.Aria’s breath hitched, but she didn’t st
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Chapter: Chapter Ninty Seven - When the Remnant Breaks Through The world didn’t explode.It peeled.Stone split like wet paper, tearing open in a jagged, spiraling line behind Lira as the wall bowed inward and not collapsing, not shattering. Unweaving. Threads of wardlight snapped one by one in bright, stinging flashes that lit the room like lightning.Lira dove aside with a startled cry. Kael yanked me behind him, blade up, aura flaring so violently the lantern flames bent away from him.The tear widened.And something crawled through.Not a creature. Not a shape.A hunger wearing form.It dragged itself into the room like smoke forced into bones and limbs too long, motions too smooth. Every part of it vibrated with a wrongness that made the hairs on my arms rise. Its face was nothing but shifting fragments of white-blue shimmer, as if a dozen half-formed souls were pressing forward at once.My second heartbeat slammed against my ribs.not itnot kinconsumeIt wasn’t afraid.It was furious.Kael stepped forward, blade blazing molten gold. “Aria
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Chapter: Chapter Ninty Six - The Echo's ShadowSleep didn’t find me.Not even close.Kael stayed near, close enough that the heat of him brushed my skin every time I drew a breath, but even his presence couldn’t quiet the restless cold that pulsed in my chest. That second heartbeat. That uninvited companion.That ancient thing.We stayed inside one of the inner temple rooms, the ones layered in old wards that hummed faintly through the walls. They were supposed to keep outside forces out.But nothing could keep what was inside me from stirring.Kael watched the door the way a wolf watches a threat no one else can see. Muscles locked. Jaw sharp. One hand was always, near a blade he didn’t need, but couldn’t reach for.I sat on the edge of the bed, elbows on my knees, staring at my palms like they might tell me something.They didn’t.Just skin.Just me.And something beneath.A faint vibration rippled up my spine.Kael turned immediately.“That it?” he asked, voice low.“Yes.” I rubbed at my sternum. “It’s… aware.”He cursed softly
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Blood Moon Rising - The Lumenwild Trials
Seventeen-year-old Elara Ward has spent her life being forgotten and shuffled between foster homes and small towns that never remembered her once she’s gone. But the dying town of Willowmere is different. The air hums with whispers, the lake no longer reflects the moon, and something ancient is stirring beneath the willows.
When Elara follows a strange light into the woods one blood-red night, she crosses the veil and a boundary between the human world and the Lumenwild, a realm of living moonlight and haunted shadows. There, she’s marked by an ancient power known as Moonfire, a symbol burned into her skin that pulses with the rhythm of the twin moons above.
Saved by four mysterious men who are named Cael, their golden-eyed Alpha; Kian, the lightning-tongued rogue; Auren, the silent watcher; and Nyx, the shadow who walks between worlds and Elara learns that her arrival has reignited a prophecy buried in legend. The Riftborn, creatures of bone and smoke, are returning, and the mark she bears is both a weapon and a curse.
In the heart of the Lumenwild’s glowing forest lies the Sanctum, a stronghold where wolves walk in light and the Moon’s will is law. There, Elara begins to uncover the truth, her crossing was no accident. The veil didn’t just let her in but it had called her home.
As the moons draw closer and the bond between Elara and the wolves deepens, she must choose whether to embrace the power that could heal a broken world… or unleash the one that could end it.
Because the Moon is awake again and she remembers her chosen.
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Chapter: Chapter #56 - The Cost of Shadows (Elara’s POV)The world snapped back into place with a violent jolt.The stone bridge shuddered beneath us, ancient magic tearing at its seams like the mountain itself was trying to spit us out. Dust rained from above, choking the air, rattling my teeth. Kyren still held my arm, jaw clenched, wings half-spread to shield me from the worst of the falling debris.Riven was already in front of us, blades drawn, eyes burning blood-red against the dim.Silas....He wasn’t moving.Not forward.Not toward the exit.He stood backward, toward the collapsing edge, shoulders trembling under the weight of shadows writhing over his skin like living ink.“Silas?” I shouted over the roar.His head tilted just enough for me to see one eye, void-black, and wrong.“A barrier,” he rasped. “They sealed us in. Only a siphon can break it.”Kyren cursed. “Don’t do something—”“Stupid?” Silas gave a broken laugh. “Too late.”The shadows exploded outward.I felt it through the bond before I understood it, pai
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Chapter: Chapter #55 - The Awakening (the fallout, the new danger) ( Elara’s POV ) The world didn’t break.It erupted.The ruins split open along ancient fault lines, silver-white light exploding upward in jagged columns that carved through the darkness like spears. My knees buckled. Kyren caught me before I hit the ground, but even he grunted under the force of the magic ripping through me.It wasn’t a surge.It was a detonation.My veins burned with molten moonlight, every pulse a shockwave that traveled down the bond-lines and slammed into the four men surrounding me.Riven staggered back with a snarl, planting a hand against the wall.Silas dropped to one knee, sweat beading along his temple as he fought to keep his shadow, magic from lashing outward in panic.Ashen’s breath punched out of him in a rough gasp, runic markings flaring along his arms with lines he hadn’t summoned, lines he’d lost control of.Kyren held firm.Barely.His flame, cored magic roared to life, wrapping around me, around us, trying desperately to contain the blast.But no
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Chapter: Chapter #54- The Moment the World Stopped ( Kyren’s POV )She said it so quietly I almost thought I imagined it.“I have to choose one of you.”The words dropped into the ruins like a blade.Everything inside me went still.Not silent.Not numb.Just… still.Like the air before a wildfire ignites.Elara’s breath trembled out of her. Riven’s jaw flexed. Silas froze mid-movement, his hand still pressed to her shoulder. Ashen’s eyes narrowed, calculating and calm in that unnerving way of his.But me?My heart didn’t beat for a full second.Then it slammed back into motion hard enough to hurt.“No,” I said before I realized I’d spoken.Her gaze snapped to mine, open, frightened, already apologizing.I hated that look.I hated that she thought she had to wear it with us.“Elara,” I said, stepping closer, “you don’t have to—”“She does,” Ashen cut in, voice steady but low. “The Pact—”“Don’t,” I growled, rounding on him. “Not now.”He lifted his chin. “You think denying it will change the truth?”Riven stepped between us before I c
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Chapter: Chapter #53 - The First Moon MaidenThe world didn’t reform all at once.It unfolded from petal by petal, breath by breath and like someone pulling a curtain from my eyes. I stood in Willowmere’s heart, the place I’d glimpsed only in fevered flashes and broken dreams with shards.But this Willowmere wasn’t memory, soft or ghost but blurred.It was alive.The air shimmered with ripples of moonlight, though the sun hung high above a canopy of ancient silverleaf trees. Petals drifted in slow spirals through the air, pale as frost. The river murmured in the distance, the sound threaded with faint music with no instrument, just magic humming through water and stone.And she stood in front of me.My mirror. My twin. My impossible reflection.The First Moon Maiden.“Elara,” she said again, the way someone speaks a word they used to own. “You’ve taken long enough.”My mouth went dry. “You… know my name.”Her smile curved. “I knew it before you were born.”Right.Not terrifying at all.I swallowed, forcing my heartbeat to slow.
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Chapter: Chapter #52 - Echos in the StoneThe ruins didn’t change.At least… not in the way the physical world should.The broken archways remained collapsed. The shattered murals still lay in pieces across the ground. The pale vines still coiled up pillars carved with moon phases older than any kingdom.But the air had shifted.It pressed against my skin like a velvet palm. Heavy. Aware. Expectant.As if the ruins themselves knew I had returned.Kyren stayed close at my right, every step silent, his eyes flicking from shadow to shadow with a feline prowl that betrayed his tension. Riven walked on my left, one hand resting lightly on the hilt of his blade. Silas walked ahead, his posture deceptively relaxed. And Ashen followed behind me, gaze pinned to the old symbols etched into stone.The five of them formed a loose circle around me.A formation.A protective instinct none of them admitted aloud.The deeper we went, the thicker the magic became. Like fog you could taste.“The pulse is stronger here,” Silas murmured, tilting
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Chapter: Chapter #51 - The Mark the Moon Forgot ( Elara’s POV ) The chamber felt smaller after the words left my mouth.Not physically, but in the way the air thickened, the way the old stone seemed to listen, the way my mates closed in around me like a shield the world couldn’t pry apart.Kyren was the first to move.Not to speak or, to move.Shadows exploded outward from his spine, curling like smoke, slamming into the ruined walls hard enough that the moon-carvings cracked.“Kyren—” Silas warned.“Don’t.” Kyren’s voice was a dark snarl. “Don’t tell me to calm down when the Devourer is hunting the center of our bond.”Ashen stood on my other side, heat radiating so intensely the air shimmered. His jaw clenched, muscles ticking with the effort not to burn the ruins to ash.Riven didn’t speak at all.He simply stepped behind me, hands settling on my shoulders, grounding, claiming, protective. His voice, when it came, was quiet enough to be terrifying.“Tell us everything she said.”I swallowed hard. “She told me I wasn’t fighting
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