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Chapter 46 – Beneath the Surface

Author: Bamdel
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-06 14:33:09

“I don’t trust myself.”

The words slipped out before I could stop them.

We were alone in the training vault beneath Caspian’s estate—sealed with warding sigils older than most bloodlines, and colder than the look he’d given the Council when they tried to muzzle me. The walls down here weren’t stone. They were etched memory, carved deep with the history of wolves who’d trained in secret, bled in silence, and carried magic no one dared to name.

“You don’t have to trust yourself yet,” Caspian said, stepping into the center of the circle. “You just have to learn not to fear yourself.”

He sounded calm. Too calm.

I paced along the edge of the warded ring, eyeing the mark on the floor beneath my boots—the one that matched the symbol burned into my skin. “You saw what I did to Mora.”

“She lived.”

“Barely.”

He didn’t flinch. “Because you held back.”

That stopped me cold.

I turned toward him. “That was me holding back?”

“You don’t understand the scale of your power,” he said simply.
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