LOGINThe time has come for Xavier to finally come clean to Alara. Will Alara be able to handle the truth? Or will she run for the hills after discovering it?
Alara’s POVRonan kept his promise — every word of it — and in doing so, he unknowingly began stitching order into the chaos I had been carrying inside.By the next morning, a routine waited for me. Not forced. Not demanded. Just… offered.I woke to find a neatly folded schedule placed on the bedside table. Ronan’s handwriting was precise, clean — no flourishes, no pressure. Just clarity.Morning – Light TrainingMidday – Meditation / Crescent Power Stabilization followed by Tonics from Dr. VaneAfternoon – RestEvening – Pack Bonding (Optional)At the bottom, in smaller letters:“If anything feels too much, tell me. We’ll adjust it.”Astrid snorted in my subconscious reading it. ‘He schedules like an anxious mother hen.’But I couldn’t help smiling. I needed structure. I needed something that didn’t crumble beneath my feet. And though I didn’t want to admit it out loud, Ronan sensed that before I did.As per the routine sche
Alara’s POVI blinked awake in the room Ronan had offered, swallowed whole by its quiet warmth. But the moment my hand drifted to my abdomen, resting on the gentle curve that held my unborn babies, the calm shattered.Twins.The word still felt unreal. Heavy. Terrifying. Beautiful.My breath trembled as I pushed up on the mattress.‘You’re safe,’ Astrid whispered inside me, her voice softer than it had been in weeks. Safe, but… not whole. We missed him.A crack sliced through my chest, sharp and cruel. “I know,” I whispered back. My wolf whimpered but didn’t push further. She knew we couldn’t afford to be fragile today.A soft knock came just as I swung my legs down.“Alara?” Ronan’s voice drifted through the door — deep, warm, gentle in a way very few Alpha voices ever were. “May I come in?”I hesitated only for a second. “Yes.”The door opened, revealing him — tall, composed, dressed in dark training clothes as if he’d already been up for hours. His dark eyes swept over me with a co
Alara’s POVThe Midnight Pack woke slowly each morning, not with the harsh, immediate clang of palace bells or the roar of military drills, but like a vast, ancient forest stretching its limbs. I learned this rhythm from the window of my new room — cedar-framed, soft-lit by the muted dawn. Here, life breathed. Wolves shifted lazily in the courtyard below, laughing easily, carrying baskets of fresh-cut wood or morning food. Their chatter rose like distant, comforting birdsong, a stark, necessary contrast to the dead silence of the Lycan palace.I pressed my forehead to the cool glass and fought — again — to push down the agonizing ache inside my chest.I missed him.Even after everything — after the betrayal my own eyes had witnessed, after the suffocating, soul-deep heartbreak that had driven me across territories, forests and borders — the Mate Bond still tugged at me mercilessly. It wasn't just desire; it was a physical, internal pull.Astrid whimpered softly in my mind, a ghost of
Alara’s POVThe Midnight Packhouse was an architecturally stark contrast to the cold, echoing white marble of the Lycan palace halls I’d fled. This place was warm, built entirely of dark cedar and heavy stone, humming with an undercurrent of contained, ancient life but quiet enough that the silence didn’t claw hysterically at my shattered nerves.Alpha Ronan, guided me through the shadowed entrance with a measured, polite distance. He never breached the fragile bubble of my personal space; he never pushed for more acknowledgment or conversation than I was willing to offer. He was a perfect, unsettling host.“Your room,” he said, his voice a low, resonant rumble as he opened a door near the western, most secluded wing, “faces the forest. It’s where the moonlight hits first every night. We find that wolves, particularly those connected to the lunar energy, sleep better with the sky on their side.”I managed a faint, strained smile, my fingers instinctively brushing the warm wooden door f
Alara’s POVI’d been driving all night. No radio. No stops. No thoughts I was willing to face. Just the endless road unraveling beneath the headlights and the knot in my throat growing tighter with every mile between me and the palace.Between me and… him.Astrid had gone silent for most of the drive — hurt, grieving, confused. ‘We should turn back.’ She whispered it once, maybe twice, but even she didn’t sound like she believed it.My hands ached around the steering wheel. My eyes burned. The bond burned too, a raw, blistering thread pulled too tight — but the farther I went, the more muffled it felt, like something inside me was shielding itself.I didn’t know if it was me. Or the pup.All I knew was that when the car finally crossed the outer border — past the last faint tendrils of Xavier’s territory — something inside my spine loosened.The pressure I hadn’t realized was crushing my lungs… eased.Only for the car to jolt violently.“Shit—!”The world pitched forward as the vehicle
Xavier’s POVThe incessant, violent banging dragged me out of sleep like a physical punch to the skull.“XAVIER!”Rylan’s voice, a raw thunderclap of fury and alarm, resonated from the other side of my chamber door. “Open the damned door, NOW!”I groaned, my head splitting in two, the pain blinding. My body felt impossibly heavy, sluggish, as if I’d been forcibly sedated. My tongue felt thick and useless. My vision was a heavy, persistent fog. It took a massive, agonizing effort just to lift my hand and rub the exhaustion from my face.‘What… happened?’I pushed myself upright, the silk sheets sliding languidly down my bare chest, and paused, my mind finally catching up to the sensory input.I was naked. Completely. In my own enormous bed.Alone—No.A soft, shallow breath beside me. A subtle shift of weight on the mattress. A cascade of long, dark, unfamiliar hair spilling across the pillow next to mine.My stomach dropped so violently I nearly retched, the bile burning the back of my







