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Orion didn't tell us everything that night. I understood that even as he started talking. He was carefully picking his words despite telling us he was going to be truthful about everything."The mirror was the least of it," he said, staring into the fire rather than at either of us. "I've been watching over you since before you were born, Aurora. Not in the creepy won’t-take-my-eyes-off-you way, but closely enough that I've known, for longer than either of you would like, that this day was coming.""Why?" I asked. "Why me? Why did it have to be me at all?"“I can't give you the answer you want right now. It's better to tell you everything at once than to give you broken, incoherent pieces.” He said.I wanted to push him. Every instinct in me wanted to plant my feet the way I had with Cillian weeks ago and demand the whole truth immediately, consequences be damned. But the genuine exhaustion he showed made me swallow my words."This is not over, Orion," I said. "I won’t push, not now,

"Tell me about it," Cillian said the next evening, when the ache from the night before had softened into something more like nostalgia than grief. "The shop. All of it. Not just the sad parts, I want to know the good ones."So I did.I told him about the antique shop two doors down from Vale's Curiosities, run by a man named Mr. Aldric who smelled perpetually of pipe smoke and never seemed to actually sell anything, content instead to simply guard his collection of oddities like a dragon that had misplaced its taste for gold. I told him about the hours I used to spend there on slow afternoons, cataloguing his stock in exchange for whatever spare change he could part with, surrounded by things too strange and specific to have ever belonged to anyone ordinary."There was this one piece," I said, warming to the memory despite myself. "A silver-backed mirror, tarnished almost black at the edges. Mr. Aldric always said it was cursed, but he said that about half his inventory, so I never th

Aurora’s POVWe had moved from where we camped shortly afterwards. It wasn’t okay to stay in one place for too long, according to Orion, and we all agreed with that. We stopped for the night near a stretch of road that curved close enough to the veil that I could feel it, faint and sticky against my skin like the moment before a storm breaks, and something about that specific pressure cracked something open in my chest that I hadn't given myself permission to feel in weeks.The nearness of a door so close, yet so far from my old life. I felt the overpowering urge to see if it was still open, to see if I could go home, but I couldn’t. I missed home.Every small detail about May town I didn’t even know I had came flooding back all at once. The particular creak of the third floorboard by the register. The smell of old paper and Mrs. Higgins's rosewater perfume. The grandfather clock nobody had bought in four years, ticking too loud in the quiet hours before opening, Nova’s check-in betw

Nyxara’s POVI had learned a very long time ago that patience was the only weapon no one ever thought to guard against.As I walked the palace corridors slowly after leaving Calum, I replayed the whole scenario with him. He's slipping. He's scared, and I made it worse with the mention of the golden wolf. And that was the crack I've been looking for.I found my chambers empty, just as I preferred them, and settled into the high-backed chair by the window with a goblet of something dark and unhurried, turning the evening's conversation over from every angle I could think to examine it.A Phoenix and a Golden Wolf bonding, I thought, that was something that hasn’t been seen in history and I know this because I have access to a lot of history books and I had turned all of them inside out.That absence was not an accident, I was almost certain of it now. Something that significant did not simply escape every record in every kingdom by chance. Someone had made very sure it stayed unknown -

Calum’s POVThe report reached me before the smoke had finished clearing from the village, which was the only mercy left to me these days - that my people still moved quickly, even as everything else about my reign had begun to slip through my fingers like water through a closed fist."She stood her ground," the messenger said, kneeling with his eyes fixed carefully on the floor. I knew he wasn’t leaning out of respect but out of fear, which is exactly how I've built my kingdom.When I said nothing, he spoke again, his voice visibly trembling. "The Phoenix. She didn't hide behind the wolf this time. She met the attack herself."I said nothing for a long moment. I was in my head, thinking about how long I've waited for the last phoenix to resurface. I made a mistake with Solara, thinking her life force would give me immense power, but not again.I should have known better. Getting rid of Solara and our son was too easy, that woman never did anything without purpose. Even her death had

We found a village two days later, and nothing in twenty-five years of May town had prepared me for what it looked like when a person like Calum decided to make an example of somewhere.It had been a small, close-knit village, from what remained of it. Low stone houses were scattered along a single road, the kind of place that probably hadn't seen anything worse than bad weather in a generation.When we walked into the village, half the roofs had caved in, black with old fire, and the road itself was scarred with battle damage. It didn’t look like an accident happened in such a place; it felt more like a punishment, a warning to anyone who passed the area, and that made my stomach turn."Calum's forces," Orion said quietly, surveying the wreckage with his face set in stone. "Word must have reached him that this village was sheltering people who'd spoken against the committee. He doesn't send warnings. He sends this.""There's no one here," Lysandra said, voice small, wings drawn tight

Finally!!!!We've finally reached the end of LLTMW. I have mixed feelings about this tbvh. It has been a roller coaster of emotions for me as I forged relationships with my characters and tried to navigate their hurdles with them😄I want to thank everyone that read my book and stayed till the very

Whistles, cheers and claps erupted from the crowd. A few “it's so good to see you back, Luna” were heard also. “And to my favorite person in the world that never gave up on me despite everything”, she turned to me and cupped my cheek slightly, “I love you so much and thank you for never giving

Adrian's POV “What???” Nathan whisper-yelled at me once Lola left to go after Lyla. “What?” I asked him. “Are you being serious right now? When you said you had a surprise for the pack, that was it?” He asked and I nodded. His eyes bulged out of their socket in astonishment and I know th

Lola's POV The whole room turned to look at us and everywhere was silent, you could hear it if a pin dropped. I scanned everyone's faces and saw quite the number of emotions. Happiness, shock, amazement and the one that broke my heart, anger. Amidst everyone's frozen state, her small bod

Lola's POV “Oh my goddess”, I whispered but he heard it anyway. “Do you like it?” He asked and I nodded. “Like is an understatement, I love it so much”, I hugged him and buried my face into his chest. I never want to be away from this man again. I turned away from him and gazed at

Lola's POV The look on his face when he took in what I said broke me but I had to clear the air, to make him stop blaming himself and make me free from the guilt of keeping such away from him. “You purposely have your life up because it was all part of the big plan?” He asked and I nodde

Dalia’s POV “I swear to God, you’re going to pay for this once this is over!!” I screamed as I felt another wave of contraction and I almost fell over in pain. “I can’t do this, I can’t “, I whimpered as it felt like I was being torn from the inside out. We were about to have our fir

“I’m ready, he can come in now”, I said and Tracy opened the door to let him in. He walked in looking dapper and so young in his tuxedo and I immediately started smiling. He handed over the flower bouquet and gift box he was holding over to Tracy who placed it in the middle of the bed. The m

Dalia’s POV “Oh my goodness, you look stunning”, my mother gushed as soon as she set her eyes on me and I smiled widely. My cheeks were hurting from smiling and it was 10 in the morning yet but I loved it. “Thank you, mama”, I smiled at her and gave her a little side hug. My hair wa

Alexander’s POV When she asked me about the day she apparently called and dropped a text message,the only day that came to my mind was the day I was so drunk, I couldn’t function properly and had to be carried home from the bar by Damien. According to him, he wasn’t going to step in

Dalia’s POV For goodness sake! I looked at him bewildered but he had a stupid smile on his face- I mean, it wasn’t stupid, that man could make the most stupid thing look sexy and he was nothing short of that in that moment- but him smiling in that situation was stupid. “That was th

Alexander’s POV I was slowly pacing outside her door while Chelsea spoke to her. I prayed to God that she would listen to her and just give me a chance to explain myself. I had been feeling empty since she left my office almost 6 months ago and it felt like heaven when I saw her angelic f