Fiona's povOutside, the clash of battle had long faded, leaving only the weight of what had been lost on the ground.But here inside, the only thing that mattered lay before me.Logan.His body rested on the bed, stretched out, pale, and unmoving. His chest refused to rise, his lips pressed tight as though death had kissed him already. Yet when I laid my trembling palm against his skin, heat lingered there. Not deathly warmth, but something stubborn. Something unfinished.Two nights had passed. Two endless nights of watching, waiting, whispering his name into the darkness. And still he hadn’t stirred.I had begged healers until their faces blurred. I had torn through books of spells, demanded remedies, poured every ounce of myself into finding a cure. But nothing had touched him. He remained trapped in a place I could not follow.My knees pressed into the stone beside his bed as I gripped his hand. Tears blurred the room, hot trails sliding down my cheeks.“You can’t leave me,” I whi
Fiona's pov “Hold on to me!” Logan’s roar tore through the storm.His shadows lashed outward, curling around us like wings of night, but they trembled under the silver fire Serenya hurled at him. Every strike shook the ground beneath my knees, every flare burned into my chest like I was breathing ash instead of air.“I’m not leaving you!” I screamed back, my voice shredding, but he didn’t hear. He was too lost in the pain. The chains scorched deeper into his wrists, glowing white-hot, hissing with Serenya’s magic. His skin blistered, blood dripping to the ground in rivulets, pooling dark into the dirt.Serenya’s voice rose above the storm, cruel and steady, each word like a blade. “You think you can hold her? You think shadows will keep her from me? She’s mine, Logan. She’s always been mine.”“You’ll have to rip her from my corpse first!” His snarl was raw, ripped from somewhere deep. Shadows exploded around us, thrashing against the flames, but each one fizzled as the silver fire de
Fiona's povThe air trembled as Serenya’s laughter slide through the clearing. Silver fire licked up her arms, spilling from her fingertips, scorching the earth beneath her feet. Across from her, the white-haired woman stood calm, her storm rising again, her hair streaming like a banner of war.The ground quaked between them, light and shadow clashing, fire and wind spiraling into one another. The power in the air was suffocating, pressing into my lungs, weighing me down until I thought my chest might shatter. Wolves whimpered, warriors crawled away on their bellies, but no one could truly escape. We were trapped inside the storm they were weaving.“Your vengeance ends here,” the white-haired woman said, her voice steady even as the gale ripped trees from their roots.“Then you will die with her,” Serenya spat. Her hands flared, silver fire surging forward in a wall of blazing fury.The pale woman lifted her arms. Wind screamed into existence, colliding with the fire midair. The explo
Fiona's pov The wind pressed me to the earth, my cheek grinding against dirt and blood-soaked grass. It was not just air that weighed me down, it was power, ancient and suffocating, flooding through the clearing in waves. Every breath I dragged into my lungs felt stolen, scraped from the storm that howled around us.The white-haired woman stood like the eye of that storm, unmoving, untouchable. Her hair whipped wild in the gale, her pale skin glowing as though it drank moonlight. She was not merely beautiful—she was terrible, the kind of beauty that stripped the soul bare.Even Serenya stared, her silver eyes wide. For the first time since she arrived, her cruel smile faltered.The wind settled, though it did not release us. Every guard, every wolf, every creature remained pressed to the ground. Only Serenya stood, her jaw tight, shoulders squared as she glared at the pale woman.“You,” Serenya hissed, voice vibrating with something I had never heard from her before. Not rage. Not co
Logan's pov My shadows thrashed, desperate to answer me, but Serenya’s magic bound them just as tightly as it bound me. The smell of my own scorched skin filled the clearing, acrid, choking. Every time I pulled, the links hissed hotter, searing me down to the bone.Fiona’s scream cracked through the night.“Stop it! Please, stop!” She stumbled forward, placing herself between Serenya and me. Her eyes were wide with terror, but her voice—gods, her voice was steady, trembling but unbroken. “I’ll go with you. Just… just let him go. If it’s me you want, then take me. But release him.”My throat closed around her words. No. Not like this.Serenya’s lips curled into something resembling a smile. Cold, cruel. “So quick to trade yourself for your Alpha. For your mate.” Her silver eyes glowed brighter, reflecting the moonlight like polished blades. She leaned close, whispering as though confiding a secret. “Fine. I accept.”Relief crashed through me, too sharp, too fleeting. The chains hissed
Logan's pov Amaiya’s voice cut through me sharper than any blade.“You can’t save her, Logan. Not from this. Not from Serenya.”Her words hit harder because she wasn’t screaming. She was calm, steady—like she’d already accepted the outcome. And it burned.“Shut your mouth,” I growled, shadows coiling tighter around my fists. “You don’t get to decide what I can save.”The ground trembled under Serenya’s steps as she moved closer. Her eyes glowed like molten silver, her presence making even the fiercest warriors in my pack scatter like leaves in a storm. Wolves shifted back into human form, their instincts screaming that they were prey in her presence.She stopped in front of Fiona. My mate. My Luna. My reason for surviving every damn war thrown at me.Her lips curved in something that wasn’t quite a smile. “So this is the daughter of the man who ruined my mother. I can see it. The same fire in her eyes. The same blood in her veins.”Fiona’s voice trembled but didn’t break. “If it’s me