Novels by Nonso Okonkwo

MELVIN'S POVI hadn't slept.The fire in my study had burned down to ash hours ago. The glass of whiskey sat untouched on my desk, the liquid dark and still. I had poured it at midnight, It was almost dawn now.I stared at the window and watched the sky slowly turn gray.My wolf paced inside me. He hadn't stopped since the council hall. Every time I tried to push him down, he came back harder. Restless, angry, like he refused to accept what we had done."Please stop already. I can't take any more guilt." I said it to the empty room.A soft knock on the door pulled me back to reality."Alpha?" The guard's voice came through the wood. "The council requests your presence in the study. Elder Vayric says it's urgent."I closed my eyes. "Tell them I'll be there."The footsteps retreated.I pushed myself up from the chair and walked toward the door. My reflection caught my eye in the dark window—hollow eyes, a shadowed jaw, the same shirt I had been wearing when I rejected her.I hadn't even

SELENE'S POVThe doors opened slowly.Two elderly maidens stood on each side of the entrance, their heads bowed low and hands clasped in front of them. They had been waiting for me. They both stood in the hallway like statues, ready to welcome their new Luna.I stepped through the threshold and into the chambers.The room stretched before me, larger than I remembered.It looked different from when I stood outside Auren's door pretending to comfort her. The windows spanned from floor to ceiling, moonlight spilling across the marble floor. A fire crackled in the hearth, casting warm shadows across the furniture.Everything was exactly as it had been.The same silk drapes. The same embroidered cushions, same painting of Thornridge's founding Alpha hanging above the mantel.But everything was different now. Same setting just a different Luna in it. The thought of it made my stomach flutter.The maidens followed me inside, their footsteps soft against the stone."The Luna chambers are prepa

AUREN'S POVThe silence around me made my hands tremble.One moment the forest was alive with the sounds of night—insects buzzing, leaves rustling, branches creaking in the wind. The next moment, nothing.I stopped walking, my hands grew cold.My bag slipped from my shoulder and landed at my feet. The weight I had been carrying suddenly felt heavier now that I wasn't moving.The silence pressed against my ears. Thick and wrong.My wolf stirred inside me.She had never stirred before. Not once. I had spent twenty-two years believing she didn't exist, that the Moon Goddess had cursed me with an empty soul. But she was there. Restless and alert in a way I had never felt.I pressed my hand against my chest. My heart pounded beneath my palm."You're imagining things," I whispered. "You're exhausted, you.. haven't slept, you also haven't eaten."The trees fell silent, only the echoes of my voice came back to me.I bent down to pick up my bag and a twig snapped behind me.I spun around. "Hel

MELVIN'S POVThe glass had been full an hour ago. I hadn't touched it since.I stood by the fire in my study, pacing across the room before stopping. Then, I sat down, one hand pressed on my forehead and the fire burning low behind me. I couldn't shut off the thought, it kept replaying itself over and over again. My mind drifted to Auren's face when I said the words. The way her knees almost buckled. The way her fingers gripped the air like she was reaching for something solid and finding nothing.The way she screamed my name like it could pull me back from what I had already done.It couldn't.My wolf paced inside me, restless and furious in a way I didn't have the energy to quiet. He hadn't settled since the council hall. Every time I pushed him down, he came back harder, clawing at something i had no name for. like he had refused to accept what we had done today regardless of the reason behind it."I know…okay?." I said it out loud to an empty room.He didn't stop pacing.I lean

AUREN'S POVI stood alone on the steps, blood drying on my arm, tears freezing against my cheeks in the cold night air.The guard walked me to my chambers. “You have little time to pack up”.My trembling hands pushed the door open, a tear slipped down and landed on the knob before I stepped inside.The door clicked shut behind me, and my legs gave out.I slid down against the wood until I hit the floor, my dress pooling around me, my whole body shaking with sobs I couldn't hold back anymore.The guard's shadow shifted under the door. He didn't knock, he didn't speak. He just waited, like I was already nothing more than a task to be finished.My hands pressed against my mouth to muffle the sound coming out of me, but it didn't work. The cries tore out anyway, ugly and loud, filling the empty chamber that used to be mine.I remembered the waterfall."No matter how long it takes," Melvin had said, his hand wrapped around mine, water misting our faces, "we would face it together. I am not

AUREN'S POVElder Vayric didn't waste a second."The council has reached its decision."My knees were still weak from the floor I had nearly collapsed on. I pulled myself up straight, refusing to let them see me break further than I already had."Auren Valecrest." He said my name like it was already in the past. "Your failure to produce an heir and your dormant wolf are signs of a cursed blood""Wh…what!?" The words burst out of me as my eyes widened. "Yes, a cursed blood." He said it so plainly, like he was reading off a grocery list. "No family has claimed you, no bloodline has come forward for you, do not forget you are an orphan. The Moon Goddess has not blessed you with a wolf in twenty-two years. He paused to let the words land. “This is not a coincidence, child. This is rejection from the divine itself."The hall murmured in agreement again. That same hum of wolves circling."That's insane." I looked around the room, "You're blaming me for something I never had control over.