The Lycan king's Forbidden Obssesion
Humanity lives on the edge of extinction. Every season, the Northern lands demand a sacrifice of a human to be sent to the Ice Castle, to be given to the Lycan King and his court to be used, broken, and discarded. No sacrifice has ever returned.
Serena Valiente is the disgraced daughter of a once-powerful family. When her father offers her as the next tribute to save his own status, Serena is dragged in chains across the frozen border. She expects death and humiliation. What she does not expect is the way the Lycan King looks at her. He does not look at her with hunger, but with pain.
Because the moment King Alejandro's eyes fall on Serena, the mate bond awakens. A searing, undeniable, cruelly ironic truth: the human he was meant to destroy is the one the Moon Goddess has chosen for him.
But in the Ice Castle, the bond is not a blessing. It is a weakness. Alejandro's enemies will use it against him. His court will mock him for wanting a human. And Serena, fragile and human and alone, must decide whether to run from the monster or trust the only creature in the frozen castle who looks at her like she is not a sacrifice, but salvation.
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Chapter: Chapter 5: The courtSerena's POV The nobles smiled at me whenever I walked through the halls of the ice Castle, and that was how I knew they wanted me dead, because I had learned to read smiles a long time ago, back when I was a child who needed to know whether the person approaching her was going to hurt her or just walk past.My stepmother had smiled before she hit me, a wide bright smile that never reached her eyes, and my father had smiled before he locked me in the cellar, a thin tight smile that said he was doing something he knew was wrong but did not care enough to stop. The guards had smiled before they put me in chains, and their smiles were cold and empty, smiles that said I was nothing to them but just a job and a body to be moved from one place to another.A smile was a weapon in this world, and the nobles of the ice Castle had the sharpest smiles I had ever seen, smiles that cut like knives and left wounds that did not bleed but still hurt just as much.They watched me from doorways and fr
Last Updated: 2026-04-13
Chapter: Chapter 4: The first touchSerena's POV Three days passed while I sat in that room with the fire burning and the snow falling outside the window, and Alejandro did not come near me, did not send word to me, and did not give any sign that he remembered I existed at all.I counted the hours as the sun rose and set behind the clouds that never seemed to leave this frozen land, and the fire burned low and was relit by servants who entered without speaking, who left food and water and warm clothes that I had not asked for and did not trust.I did not eat the food they brought, and I did not drink the water, and I did not sleep in the bed with its soft blankets and its soft pillows, because sleep was a weakness and eating was a risk and drinking could be a death sentence if someone had decided to poison me while I was not looking.Instead I sat against the headboard with my back to the wall and my eyes on the door, the way I had learned to sit when I was a child and my stepmother roamed the halls looking for someone
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Chapter: Chapter 3: The prisonSerena's POV The room had a fire, and that was the first thing I noticed when the guard shoved me through the doorway and closed the door behind me with a click that echoed in my ears like the sound of a cage locking shut.It was a real fire, with logs burning and flames dancing and heat pouring off it in waves that made my frozen skin ache because I had not been warm in weeks, not since the guards had taken me from my father's house and put me in chains and dragged me north across the frozen border.I heard the lock click, and I heard the guard's footsteps retreat down the hallway, and then I was alone in a room that looked nothing like the dungeon I had been expecting.There was a bed, a real bed with blankets and pillows and a wooden frame, and a table with food, bread and cheese and a pitcher of water and a cup, and a wardrobe against the wall that I did not open because I did not trust it, and a window set high in the wall, too high to reach and too small to climb through.But t
Last Updated: 2026-04-13
Chapter: Chapter 2: The KingSerena's POV I had expected a monster, the kind of monster that lived in the stories my mother used to tell me before bed, with sharp teeth and claws and eyes that glowed in the dark, but when the doors of the throne room opened and the Lycan King Alejandro walked in, I realized that I had been wrong about everything.The throne room had been silent before he entered, so silent that I could hear the crackling of the fires in their iron sconces and the breathing of the nobles who lined the walls, but when he walked through the doors, the silence became something else entirely, something heavier and deeper and more terrifying than anything I had ever experienced.He was tall, much taller than any man I had ever seen, and his shoulders were so broad that they seemed to fill the doorway, and his dark hair fell across his forehead in waves that looked like spilled ink, and his jaw was so sharp it could have been carved from stone.But it was his eyes that stopped my heart, because they we
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Chapter: Chapter 1: The chainsSerena's POV The snow burned my knees through the holes in my trousers, and I had been kneeling for what felt like hours, though time moved differently when you were waiting to die, and I had been waiting to die for as long as I could remember.The chains bit into my wrists, and the metal was so cold that it felt like fire, colder than the snow beneath me and colder than anything I had ever felt in my twenty-three years of surviving a life that had never wanted me.I did not look up at the Lycan nobles who lined the courtyard of the ice Castle, and their golden eyes were glowing in the dim light of the frozen torches, and their smiles showed teeth that could tear me apart in seconds. I had learned long ago not to give them my tears, because tears were weakness, and weakness was punished, and I had been punished enough for one lifetime."You were always good for nothing," my father's voice echoed in my memory, and they were the last words he had said to me before they put me in the ch
Last Updated: 2026-04-13
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