The Mark Of Orathyn
Evren Draven was born with a mark no one could explain.
For nineteen years it remained silent.
Then ancient ruins buried beneath the northern mountains awaken, and the symbol hidden on his chest begins to burn.
Pearl Ashbourne has spent her life hunting monsters and uncovering forgotten history. When several Wardens vanish near the newly discovered ruins, she is sent north to investigate what lies beneath the mountains.
The mission should have been simple.
Instead, every answer leads to another question.
Why do the ruins react to Evren?
Why do ancient symbols seem to recognize Pearl?
And why do forbidden records speak of a forgotten race erased so completely that even their name should no longer exist?
As buried secrets rise to the surface, Evren and Pearl uncover a conspiracy older than kingdoms, older than Lycans, and perhaps older than the gods themselves.
Someone has been manipulating events for centuries.
Someone has been waiting for them since before they were born.
And if the truth is revealed, the world may never be the same again.
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Chapter: Chapter 136: The Moon's Blessing (Epilogue)One year later, the kingdom had undergone a transformation that felt almost miraculous in its completeness. The scars of war had faded from the landscape, replaced by the green of new growth and hope. Fields that had once been scorched and blackened bloomed again with life. Children played freely through the streets without fear, their laughter replacing the sound of clashing swords. Peace had become so ordinary that an entire generation would soon grow up knowing nothing else.---Inside the royal palace, the council meeting had descended into chaos—though not the kind that concerned anyone. Lucien sat at the head of the table, his expression caught somewhere between resignation and exasperation, while Mira reclined in his chair with her feet propped up on the council table. She had turned sixteen in the past year, grown slightly taller, and somehow—impossibly—become even more mischievous than before."Mira," Lucien said, his patience fraying like a well-worn thread, "you are absolut
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Chapter: Chapter 135: Love After the StormThe war was over. For the first time in what felt like an eternity, the palace wasn't filled with the sounds of battle and chaos. Instead, music drifted through the grand hall in gentle waves, and candlelight glowed warmly from every corner. Laughter echoed through the corridors in a way that had been absent for far too long. The kingdom was celebrating—not merely victory over an ancient enemy, but something far more precious: the continuation of life itself, and the freedom to live it without constant fear.---Pearl stood quietly on the palace balcony, watching thousands of lanterns rise into the night sky like stars being born. Each one carried a prayer, a hope, a piece of the healing that was finally beginning to take root across the kingdom. She didn't hear Evren approach, but she felt him the way she had learned to feel everything about him—as naturally as breathing."You always disappear from parties," he said softly, and she could hear the smile in his voice before she even tu
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Chapter: Chapter 134: A Brother's ReturnThe silver-golden light expanded until it consumed the entire spiritual realm, pushing back the encroaching darkness—not through brute force, but because it had become impossible for the shadow to maintain its separation from the family standing united against it. The Hollow King's roar of fury shattered across the realm like breaking glass."No! He is mine!"The chains around Evren's soul tightened with desperate force one final time, wrapping around the golden flame as though raw desperation alone could hold what was already slipping away. But Mira took another step forward, and this time there was no fear in her bearing. She smiled—small, gentle, the smile of a fifteen-year-old girl who had learned that the most powerful weapon in any world was simply refusing to surrender."You're wrong," she said, her voice steady despite the tears streaming down her face.The Hollow King's laugh was bitter as ash. "And what makes you believe that?"Mira looked at the golden flame, then back at t
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Chapter: Chapter 133: The Final RitualThe Hollow King stepped onto the battlefield, and in that singular moment, the world convulsed with his arrival. The earth beneath his feet withered to ash. Flowers crumbled into dust. Even the grass turned black as though all life had been drained from it in an instant. The air grew so heavy that breathing became an act of defiance. The shadow creatures and monsters that had haunted them were gone, leaving only him—eternal and terrible—and the family who had stood against him since the very beginning.Eros stepped forward slowly, deliberately. "You wanted me," he said, his voice steady despite the devastation blooming around them.The Hollow King shook his head, and his crimson eyes swept across the battlefield like a predator surveying its prey. "Once." His gaze landed on Evren, then moved away. "Then him." But finally, inevitably, his terrible attention settled on Mira."But now," he continued, his voice carrying the weight of centuries, "I want her."Mira instinctively moved close
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Chapter: Chapter 132: A Mother's Wings "MIRA!" The cry tore across the battlefield as the Devourer charged forward like a mountain collapsing, each step shattering the earth beneath it. The palace walls cracked; the air itself seemed to shudder. Mira couldn't move — not out of fear for herself, but because everyone she loved was hurtling toward danger for her sake. "Father!" Eros pushed his exhausted body past its limits, his wounded Lycan form blurring across the field. "Mother!" Freya spread her radiant wings and shot through the sky like a falling star. "Big Brother!" Evren forced his aching body forward despite the fragment still clawing inside him, Pearl running at his side. "No!" she cried. The Hollow King watched with cold satisfaction. "Too slow." The Devourer raised its enormous claw, the shadow clinging to it so dense it swallowed the moonlight whole, and brought it crashing down toward Mira. Then a brilliant golden light exploded across the battlefield. Freya reached her daughter first, wrapping both a
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Chapter: Chapter 131: The ChoiceThe battlefield had fallen into complete chaos. The Devourer kept tearing through the capital, and Eros fought it with everything he had, each collision shaking the kingdom to its foundations. Freya remained inside the sanctuary, her divine power sealing the cracks in space before more creatures could pour through. The Royal Guard fought desperately to keep the civilians safe. And yet everyone's eyes kept drifting back to Evren — to the prince kneeling on the bloodstained ground, to the darkness slowly crawling across his skin. The Hollow King descended from the sky, and for the first time he stood only a few steps from Evren, with no one able to reach them. The Devourer had driven Eros away; the shadow army ringed the battlefield on every side. The Hollow King looked down at Evren with calm satisfaction. "You've resisted longer than anyone. I admire that." Evren pushed himself upright, breathing uneven, his golden eyes straining against the crimson glow trying to swallow them. "I
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Chapter: Chapter 23 — The King's GambitLucaI read the scroll twice. Then a third time. The handwriting was unmistakably Austin's, and there wasn't much written on it — which somehow made it worse.*You wanted to know what happens when people stop believing the crown has the right to decide everything. Now you have your answer. Do not rush. People who speak when they are drunk are easy to notice. People who speak when they are sober are the ones you should remember. Find out who believes in you. Do not ask them to choose you. Let them tell you why they already have.*I lowered the scroll. Angelina was watching me from across the room."What did he say?""Nothing important."Her eyebrows lifted. "That was a very long scroll for something unimportant."I folded it away. "He wants me to be careful.""About?""People."She smiled faintly. "That sounds like Austin." She hadn't meant anything by it, but I couldn't stop thinking about how easily he'd understood exactly what was happening here. He hadn't asked me to rebel. He hadn
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Chapter: Chapter 22: The First MoveLucaMy head was pounding. I opened one eye and immediately closed it again."Alive?"Angelina's voice came from somewhere beside me."Barely."She laughed. I dragged the blanket over my face."Go away.""Good morning to you too.""I don't remember inviting you.""You married me.""That sounds like something I would regret."She pulled the blanket away. I squinted at her. She was already dressed, standing beside the bed with her arms crossed, and somehow looked like she'd slept twelve peaceful hours instead of surviving the same night I had."You look disgustingly cheerful.""And you look disgusting."I stared at her. She smiled innocently."You smell like wine.""I was drinking.""I noticed.""You were drinking too.""I had two glasses.""Three.""Two.""Three."She narrowed her eyes."You were counting?""I remember everything.""Then you should remember falling into the fountain."I sat up."I did not fall.""You walked into it.""There is a difference.""A very small one."I grabb
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Chapter: Chapter 21 — Seeds of RebellionAustinThe gates opened before I even reached them.I rode through the familiar streets of my kingdom, barely acknowledging the guards who bowed as I passed. I had been gone long enough for things to pile up, and I already knew I would have a stack of reports waiting for me.But there was one person I expected to see before any of that.Swayer.He was standing outside the palace when I arrived, dressed in his usual black uniform, his expression as unreadable as ever.I climbed down from my horse."Welcome back, Your Majesty.""Tell me everything."Swayer fell into step beside me as we entered the palace."Nothing major happened while you were gone. The northern packs settled their territory dispute. The western pack requested more guards along their border, and the council has been asking when you're returning.""Of course they have.""There was also a minor disagreement between two elders regarding the trade routes.""Handle it.""I already did."I glanced at him."You always make my
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Chapter: Chapter 20 : Our First NightI felt it first—the slow, inevitable rekindling of heat low in my belly. The bond hummed, restless. Satisfied, but nowhere near finished. Garret’s breathing changed against my skin. I felt the shift in him through the bond: the way his body was already responding again, the deep, instinctive need that came with a fresh mating. One time was never going to be enough. Not for us. Not tonight.His hand slid down my side, slow and possessive. When he lifted his head, his eyes were darker than before, the gold of his Lycan nature flickering at the edges.“We’re not done,” he said, voice rough with certainty.I didn’t answer with words. I pulled him back down and kissed him, open and hungry. A low, approving growl rumbled in his chest.Instead of rolling me on top of him right away, he kissed a path down my throat, over the still-sensitive mark, between my breasts, lower. His mouth trailed hot and open across my stomach. I felt the deliberate drag of his tongue just above the place where I w
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Chapter: Chapter 19: Our First NightEvelynThe deeper we walked into the forest, the quieter everything became. The music from the palace faded until only the soft crunch of leaves and the occasional rustle of branches remained.Then the trees opened into a small clearing.Someone had prepared it beautifully. A large cream-colored blanket covered the grass beneath an old tree, soft cushions scattered across it, little lanterns hanging from the lower branches. Their warm light mixed with the silver moonlight. White flowers had been scattered around the blanket. A small wooden table held a bottle of wine, two glasses, fresh fruit, and a few sweets.I turned toward Garret.“Did you know about this?”He shook his head. “No.”“Neither did I.”“Good.”I smiled. “Why good?”“Because for a moment I thought everyone knew what we were supposed to do tonight except me.”I laughed and walked toward the blanket. “So you were nervous.”“I’ve been nervous since this morning.”I picked up one of the glasses. “And you hid it well.”“I h
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Chapter: Chapter 18: Bound by the MoonEvelynI had faced warriors twice my size without feeling this nervous. Yet standing in front of the mirror, I couldn't stop touching the edge of my dress."You're going to ruin it."I looked at Angelina through the mirror."I barely touched it.""You've touched it six times."I dropped my hands. Angelina smiled and adjusted the silver flower in my hair."There."I looked at myself again. The dress was ivory, soft and light enough that it moved with every small shift of my body. The fitted bodice hugged my waist before falling into a long, flowing skirt, tiny silver flowers embroidered along the fabric so delicately they looked scattered there by hand rather than stitched. The sleeves were sheer, reaching my wrists, traced in silver at the edges. My hair fell mostly loose down my back, a few strands pinned away from my face by small silver blossoms.I looked like someone out of one of the old fairytales. Just not one I had ever imagined myself living.Angelina stepped back."You're be
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The Lycan King's forgotten Goddess
She died on her knees, betrayed by the mate she worshipped.
She woke up on the morning he chose to destroy her.
Freya Lunareth gave Alpha Kaelen Varkor everything — her loyalty, her heart, her future as his Luna. He repaid her with public humiliation and a death sentence.
Then fate gave her something crueler than mercy: a second chance.
Freya wakes back in the one night that ruined her life, every memory intact, one vow burning through her veins.
This time, she rejects him first.
But revenge is the easy part. The night she defies Kaelen, something ancient stirs inside her — a power with no name, no explanation, and no mercy. And when the Lycan King himself, Eros Draven, walks into her world uninvited, Freya realizes her second chance was never really about Kaelen at all.
She isn't just a rejected Luna anymore.
She's a secret centuries of kings have been hunting for — and the one thing powerful enough to burn their world down.
Betrayal built her rage. Power will decide what she becomes.
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Chapter: Epilogue: The Heir Beyond HeavenNineteen years passed faster than anyone expected.The North no longer resembled the kingdom Eros and Freya had fought so hard to save. The scars of war had faded beneath thriving cities, prosperous villages, and generations of children who knew peace as their birthright. Roads stretched across territories once divided by fear. Markets overflowed with trade from distant lands. Laughter filled places where silence had once lingered.The kingdom had become everything they had dreamed it could be.And at the center of it stood the Draven family.Freya often found herself wondering how time had managed to move so quickly.One moment Evren had been a child chasing butterflies through palace gardens.Now he towered over most warriors in the North.The years had shaped him into a young man who carried himself with quiet confidence. His dark hair had grown longer, often falling across silver eyes that seemed capable of seeing things others missed. There was something about him that drew atten
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Chapter: Chapter 118: Five Years LaterThe news of Freya's third pregnancy was received with varying levels of dignity.Freya accepted it with happiness.Eros accepted it with cautious optimism.The kingdom accepted it with celebration.Evren and Lucien accepted it as an opportunity to ask approximately five hundred questions a day.By the time Freya reached her final months, she had answered every possible variation of how babies arrived, where babies slept, whether babies could join sword training, and why babies weren't born already old enough to play games.The last question came from Lucien.The answer disappointed him greatly.Years passed quickly after that.One moment the boys were small enough to fit in her arms.The next they were racing through the fortress like storms in human form.Evren grew into a thoughtful child whose curiosity only deepened with age. He wanted to understand everything. Books fascinated him. Ancient stories fascinated him. Questions fascinated him most of all. The mark over his heart remai
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Chapter: Chapter 117: One Year LaterThe fortress had survived wars, political disasters, divine interventions, and several centuries of Eros Draven's temper. What it was not prepared for was two boys under the age of two. Freya realized that shortly after Lucien was born. Evren had greeted his younger brother with the kind of excitement usually reserved for discovering buried treasure. For the first three days, he followed the healers around the fortress demanding updates. By the fourth day, he had appointed himself Lucien's personal guardian. By the fifth, everyone understood that separating him from the baby would require military intervention. The situation only became more complicated as Lucien grew older. Unlike Evren, whose presence often carried an inexplicable sense of wonder, Lucien arrived in the world determined to make himself known through sheer personality. Even as an infant, he possessed a stubborn streak strong enough to rival his father's. If Evren wanted something, he usually found creative ways to
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Chapter: Chapter 116: The Mark No One Could ReadThe celebrations lasted for three days.Freya hadn't expected that.She knew the kingdom would be happy. The birth of a royal heir was always a significant event, especially after everything the North had endured over the years. What she hadn't anticipated was the sheer scale of it. Villages held feasts. Bonfires burned throughout the night. Songs were written before the child was even a week old, and somehow every version portrayed him as either a future hero or a tiny menace destined to terrorize the palace staff.Judging by what she'd seen so far, the second version seemed more believable.At the moment, Evren was asleep in her arms, blissfully unaware that an entire kingdom had already fallen in love with him.Freya sat beside the nursery window while afternoon sunlight spilled across the room. Snow still covered the mountains beyond the fortress, but spring had begun creeping into the valleys below. The world felt softer these days.Peace had finally become real.A quiet knock so
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Chapter: Chapter 115: The First ChildThe storm should have hidden the stars.Every healer inside the royal fortress would later swear to that fact.Rain lashed against the windows hard enough to shake the glass. Thunder rolled across the mountains without pause, and clouds covered the sky from horizon to horizon. Yet sometime after midnight, people began noticing points of silver light appearing above the fortress. At first there were only a few. Then dozens. Then hundreds. Before long, the entire sky glittered as though the storm no longer possessed the authority to conceal it.Inside the royal chambers, nobody paid attention.Not at first.Every thought centered on Freya.The room buzzed with controlled activity as healers moved back and forth carrying supplies while attendants prepared fresh water and linens. The atmosphere remained focused despite the growing tension. Royal births were always important. This one carried the weight of history.Not because of crowns or kingdoms.Because nobody truly knew what was about
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Chapter: Chapter 114: The starsBy the seventh month of Freya's pregnancy, the entire kingdom had become invested in the arrival of the royal child.What began as excitement had gradually evolved into something closer to obsession.Every village seemed determined to contribute something. Handmade blankets arrived from the eastern territories. Wooden toys appeared from mountain settlements. Jewelry, clothing, carvings, books, and gifts filled entire rooms within the fortress. At one point, a farmer traveled three days simply to deliver a carved wooden horse he had spent months making.Freya found the generosity overwhelming.Eros found it concerning.Mostly because he had become convinced every object entering the fortress required inspection.Freya eventually threatened to ban him from the nursery if he continued interrogating gift bearers.The threat proved surprisingly effective.For approximately two days.After that, he simply became more discreet about it.The nursery itself occupied a quiet wing overlooking th
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