Chapter: Epilogue(Three years later) Author’s POV “Mommy! look, butterfly.” Minerva pointed to the blue butterfly that was slowly flapping its wings over the multitude of flowers. The apple pendant rested peacefully around her neck. Karica sat on the fresh grass and happily watched her four-year-old daughter play in the small meadow that used to belong to the witches of Black Forest. Most of them were buried nearby after Vildus’s attack had killed them. Including two of her mentors, Gwardia and Arasia. The efforts of reconciliation had failed between her and Xynathius and she had moved here two years ago. He visited every week to meet Minerva and carrying hopes that Karica might decide to return but she never did. This place calmed her down, she could sense powerful magic running deep into the very ground and air. It pulled Karica and Minerva too. Her daughter was already showing early signs of possessing magic and this place helped channel that in a peaceful environment. The protection charm
Last Updated: 2024-01-29
Chapter: Her TruthsKarica’s POVReturning to my former pack and going on a limb to talk to the man I thought was my father all my life, was not easy. With my state of mind, I just wanted to get this over with and he needed to hear me out. Kaina was overjoyed to see me and so was Selia. We hugged and sat down to talk. “We were so worried about you. It was a relief when news of your return arrived.” Kaina held me close and I sat with my head resting on her shoulder. Selia was holding my other hand. “Yes, indeed. And Kilran told me about Adiyan. I am sorry your friend is gone,” Selia sympathetically said not knowing he meant so much more to me and I was no more afraid of talking aloud about him. “He was also my mate. I am a part witch and so was he. Adiyan was the best thing to happen to me and I lost him because I didn't value him enough.” I spoke my truth and both girls were a bit taken aback. Two mates were unheard of and I didn't want to burden them with the likes of Vildus. He was no mate to me.
Last Updated: 2024-01-28
Chapter: Lingering Scent In His RoomKarica’s POVHow I made it from the cemetery to his home was all blurry. Xynathius held me all along but he didn't say much and if he did, I didn't remember. His family was kind enough to let me go to his room. I slowly opened the door and lingering whiffs of his scent blanketed me. I paused, closed my eyes and got hold of my emotions. Flicking on the light switch, I let my eyes roam his sanctuary for one last time. Everything was immaculately laid out, neat and in its place. His bed, where we had cuddled so many times. His gaming area, where we had endlessly played video games. His closet filled with his clothes, ones he would never get a chance to wear again. I traced my fingertips on everything he had owned while heavily sighing. The empty feeling in my chest grew. The echoes of his laughter still persisted from the moments when he used to tickle me. All that was just reduced to his loving memories. Stepping closer to his bed, and there between his pillows, I found the wolfie st
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Chapter: They Buried My HeartKarica’s POVXynathius’s words were like gasoline on my already raging self. The loss of Adiyan had torn my heart into so many pieces that I couldn't put them back together anymore. Every breath was torture for I was reminded of him. I had no clue how to cope with such stifling emotions. Barely holding on and now this revelation further shattered me. Adiyan had felt me, he had reached out to me but Xynathius never even gave me an option to choose. He knew I would choose him. I silently shook my head at Xynathius so disappointed. He had not only taken my free will he even snubbed my rights to choose my mate. His presence and scent which should soothe me in such a moment was nothing but torture. “Because I am selfish when it comes down to you. I wanted you all by myself. It was wrong, I admit it but I was desperate. Sharing you was something I could never do.” His words blazed me and I flipped. All the pent-up anger inside me emerged like a poisonous snake and bit him. “It was not y
Last Updated: 2024-01-27
Chapter: The DistrustXynathius’s POVVildus was gone from our lives as well as our world but so was Adiyan. The prophecy was completed and fulfilled, leaving my mate broken. She wouldn't let go of Adiyan’s body, she wouldn't hear me, Laila or Zilver. Everyone had been shut out as she mourned the loss of her mate. I touched her shoulder letting her know I was there for her but she just sat there dazedly, staring blankly at his face. The guilt dug its tentacles deep into my heart. Adiyan was a better man than me in every aspect and he would have made an exceptional mate to her. Karica was right about him when she first met me. And yet he was gone and I was partially responsible. The guilt will never fade. I owed my life to him, he died protecting us and this was a kind of debt which couldn't be repaid. She bent down and kissed his lips and then his forehead. Her lips stayed there in a final goodbye as she hugged him to her chest, a scream and a tremorous wave of energy burst through her and hit us all
Last Updated: 2024-01-26
Chapter: The Prophecy Is FulfilledKarica’s POVThe most horrendous scream escaped me as my body jerked forward, the whole world blurring around me. All I could hear and focus on was Adiyan’s slowly beating heart. He was still alive but for how long?My own seemed to have been crushed under a boulder and there was only one thought on my mind. I had to save my mate. I slowly watched Vildus reaching out to him, the time seemed to be progressing at a snail’s pace for me. Vildus was about to slit his throat. “Noooo,” I cried out in desperation as a surge of spiked air with frozen thunderbolts shot out and were hurled in Vildus’s direction. His hollowed-out laugh erupted and clung to my sides as he disintegrated into bats and tried to fly away again. “No, you won't,” I screamed out with all the disgust and rage I carried. Halting, I converged my hands together, the blackened energy I carried inside rushed out in gigantic swirls and wrapped themselves around Vildus’s bats like writhing snakes. This was my piled-up hate f
Last Updated: 2024-01-25
Chapter: The Rage of Rumarian(Zorya)The light continued to pour forth.It wrapped around Xalik's naked torso like shining silvery threads, lifting him from the ground, cradling him, healing him and loving him. It bound us together with threads of pure affection and sacred feelings. Something that was only ours. The threads pulsed with every heartbeat. They sang with every breath, the song meant only for him while my screams were for others. I felt him, all of him, like I had never felt before. The world ebbed away, screaming and crying in the background. I didn't care. His fears and his pain. His desperate, burning love for me, his emotions and his torments. I felt everything in that moment. And I knew he felt me too.My terror along with my exhaustion. My agony and the overwhelming, consuming need for him."Zorya," he breathed with such gentleness. His voice was not just in my ears, it was in my blood, in my bones and in my soul."Xalik," I breathlessly murmured back. He stared at me, transfixed, his thre
Last Updated: 2026-10-21
Chapter: Her Song(Zorya)*What have you done to her?” he roared. “What have you done? Let her go.” His voice thundered like a warning in every corner of Sunken Pit. Beside him, smiling a cold, cruel smile, was Canara. She had dragged him here like a chained animal so he could witness my punishment. To witness my shame.No….He shouldn't be here. “Ah,” Caliath darkly mused. “How kind of you to join us.”Xalik fought against the guards, against the tens of chains that held him, his corded muscles strained, his eyes blazing with a fire ready to burn everyone. I could see how the veins in his neck had stretched. “I will kill you,” he hissed. “And I will burn this place to the ground if you don't let her go.”The pain made it difficult for me to keep my eyes open or speak. “You will do nothing.” Canara's voice was sharp as a blade. “You will only watch what my brother has planned for her.”She gestured to the sentries, and they stretched his chains, binding them to opposite poles with his arms and legs
Last Updated: 2026-10-19
Chapter: The Punishment For Peace(Zorya)(Sensitive Content, read with caution)The sand was cold beneath my knees, my senses numb. The fear of the unknown had clutched my limbs. I had simply been pulled to the Sunken Pit like a piece of livestock being led to slaughter.And now I knelt in the centre of it, the sandy ground rough against my bare legs.At least Xalik was not there to witness my humiliation. I knew him; he wouldn't be able to bear it, and the burden of it all would turn him berserk. “You have been brought here to witness justice, to witness what happens when you cheat on your master,” Caliath's dark voice, lacking any emotions, echoed through the place. Murmurs and whispers followed. The atmosphere thickened with tension. Caliath's death grip grabbed my hair and savagely pulled, angling my head up. A scream died on my lips. “She thought she could go behind my back and fuck another slave. Slaves lined the perimeter; their expressions were a mixture of fear, pity and grim resignation for me. They
Last Updated: 2026-10-17
Chapter: The Wreckage(Zorya)(The contents of this chapter can be disturbing for sensitive readers. Read with precaution.)He tossed the pendant away. His slimy hands forcefully held onto me. I tried to reach Xalik through the mindlink, but all I found was silent static on his end. Caliath grabbed my face, turning my face towards him; his body pinned me to place on the sofa. “How long? His choosing you after the Tournament of Brave Hearts wasn't to abuse you. Was it?” He glared at me with a fire burning in his eyes. I fiercely stared back this time. There was no escaping now. He knew our secret; there was no point in hiding. “Let Xalik go; do whatever you want with me.” Caliath scoffed, but that madness in his eyes told me his mind was calculating. “I am going to have fun with you. You hurt Ghastian; he wants revenge.” The goading curl of his thin lips told me that Ghastian was in full control of his mind. That real Caliath, the glimpse of him I got, was completely lost today. “Why don't we watch
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Chapter: The Beginning of the Horror(Zorya)Xalik left my room in the middle of the night, and I settled into bed to get some sleep. It was then that the door to my room was banged open, cracking against the wall, and none other than Canara entered like a swirling whirlwind. I was on my feet before I fully registered what was happening, my heart lurching into my throat.What was she doing here? She was viciously smiling. A smile that sent a shudder running through me. "What a clever little bitch you have been." Her voice gratingShe stepped inside, holding something in her hand. Scraps of paper. Her other hand reached out and viciously grabbed my hair as she shoved the papers in my face. The notes I had hidden beneath my bed. The messages Xalik had passed me through them. The heartfelt words we had shared.All of it was in her hands. My whole body trembled in her hold not because I was afraid she would punish me. I feared for Xalik. "Did you think I would not find them?" She jerked my head, her eyes savage. "Did yo
Last Updated: 2026-10-15
Chapter: Where is Zorya?(Xalik)The fire was restless. It burnt bright and hot all around me. It churned in my chest, like a scorching heat beneath my skin. It had been growing for days now, fed by something I could not name. Something that burned hotter every time I was away from her, away from Zorya. It had been two days since I had seen her, and I wouldn't stop sweating or thinking about her and her calming touch. "Zorya."I reached for her with my mind. The link formed between us was still new, still fragile, but it was there, a thread of warmth that connected us across the walls of the Sunken Pit."Zorya, can you hear me?" I called her again but was met only with silence. I tried again, pushing harder against the mindlink."Zorya. Answer me." My desperation fizzled out; the worst scenarios formed in my brain. Nothing, just restlessness and agitation. Was it hers combined with mine? The fire in my chest flared, and I felt a spike of panic so sharp it stole my breath. Something was wrong. Something h
Last Updated: 2026-10-14
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