LOGINSamuel povLilith.She looked barely conscious now, slumped weakly against the ground with her eyes shut, her breathing shallow and uneven as the drug dragged her deeper under.I stared at her for a long moment before smiling faintly.āThat was my original plan,ā I murmured quietly. āWhat I wanted to achieve.ā My expression shifted slowly as I exhaled a short, almost amused breath. āBut nowā¦ā A soft laugh slipped out. āIām not so sure anymore.ā I tilted my head, studying her as though she were the only thing in the room worth understanding. āI donāt know why Iām doing any of this now.āMy brows furrowed faintly, a rare trace of confusion crossing my face. āYes, itās exciting. Itās entertaining. It's fucking fun to watch everyone being treated like a goddamn fool!ā My smile twitched as I spoke, quieter this time, almost thoughtful. āBut I still donāt really feel it.ā My voice dropped slightly, softer, as though I were admitting something inconvenient to myself. āI donāt think Iām bec
Samuel povāSince everyone has already shared their stories,ā I said lightly, my voice deep and casual, āitās only fair that I share mine too, isnāt it?āA thoughtful hum slipped from my lips as I tilted my head slightly. I didnāt wait for an answer.I never did.There was no need for her voice. Not yet. Not when everything I wanted was already unfolding exactly the way it should.āThere was a boy,ā I began softly, almost conversationally, āand that boy was me. Samuel.āMy footsteps echoed slowly against the ground as I walked. Each step dragged something deeper out of me, widened the grin on my lips, made my heartbeat pound heavier inside my chest.āWhen I was young, I already knew I was different.āThe moment the words left my lips, the world blurred.Shifted.Flickered.Until I was no longer there anymore.A mirror appeared in my mind and in front of it sat a small boyātoo still, too quiet, too rehearsed.āSmile,ā my mother said gently.I saw her clearly. Soft eyes. Warm voice. Sta
Lilith povWhen evil doesnāt look like a monster, how would you even know who the real villain is?***My heart pounded so painfully it felt like it would rip straight out of my chest.So painfully I couldnāt breathe.So painfully my vision blurred until I could barely see what was in front of me anymore.Maybe it was because the tears wouldnāt stop falling.Or maybe it was because something deep in the darkness kept pulling at me, whispering for me to close my eyes, begging me to lose consciousness so I wouldnāt have to witness what sat before me.My chest felt torn apart.Shredded into pieces that could never be put back together again because the man before meā¦That couldnāt be my father.It couldnāt.My father couldn't be the one twitching weakly against the chair. He couldn't be the man with no eyes. No tongue. No arms. No legs.Not the man desperately trying to speak through broken, incoherent sounds spilling from his mouth.Yet I understood him.Even without words, I understood
Lilith povMy heart dropped.She was a Moonburn?She wasnāt from Fangspire. She had just appeared in the packhouse one day. No one ever really knew where she came from. So sheā¦she was from the Moonburn tribe.The ones who were wiped out years ago at the hands ofāMy stomach tightened.āVerekā¦ā I breathed.Loraās expression didnāt change.āThatās right,ā she said quietly. āVerek.ā She stepped back slightly, like the memories themselves were too heavy. āWhen I was eight years old, he came to our village,ā she said. āHe came alone at first. He spoke like a man offering salvation. Wealth. Safety. He said he would give us a large pack after his plans succeeded. After he became king of all packsāHer lips curled slightly.āAll he wanted was for the Moonburns to join him. Because we were strong. He wanted us to be rogues ā Her voice hardened. āBut the elders refused. They chased him out. They called him evil. They said they would not stain their hands with blood.āLoraās gaze lowered.āHe l
Lilith povāLilith⦠Lilith, wake up. You have to wake up and fight. Fight to protect the people you love. Wake up, Lilith! Your father, your father isāāMy eyes snapped open.I lurched forward with a sharp gasp, air tearing into my lungs like I had been drowning but the moment I moved, the chains snapped tight. Cold metal bit into my skin, yanking me back harshly as a choked breath escaped me. My chest heaved, struggling to draw in air, my body trembling as pain tore through meāhot, relentless, like fire surging through my veins.But I barely felt it. My mind was somewhere else.āMā¦Motherā¦āHer face flashed through my thoughts, she had been dressed in white, eyes filled with something I had never seen before.Fear. Desperation. Tears.āYou father⦠your father isāāI squeezed my eyes shut, trying to grasp the words, to hear it again, to finish it but it slipped through me.I had woken up before she could say it.My fingers curled weakly behind me, my breath uneven as a tremor ran throu
Claude povāThere was a story I loved when I was a child.ā My voice cut through the chaos, calm, almost thoughtful. āI remember it too well.āāAhhh, my hand! My hand!āThe scream tore through the air. I didnāt even blink.āEvery night,ā I continued, as though I was having a normal conversation as the rogue dropped to his knees in front of me, clutching what remained of his arm, his severed hand still twitching in my grip, blood smeared across my face as his eyes locked onto mine in pure terror.āWithout fail, I made the old man read it to me. If he didnātā I tilted my head slightly, watching him, āI wouldnāt sleep.ā A low chuckle slipped from my lips. āIād just lie there. Staring. Waiting.āMy foot came down his head.A sickening crack.Silence.āA stubborn child, donāt you think?āA blur passed meāSilas and Lucien. They moved in and out of existence like shadows. One moment beside me, the next already behind another rogue. Bodies dropped before the mind could even register death. It
Lilith povāI donāt want to die, so, please, pleaseājust execute him alone.āEveryone turned to Seraphina in shock the moment those words left her lips. Even the elders who, only moments ago, had been demanding Kael and his familyās deaths looked beyond stunned. They watched as she stumbled backwa
Lilith povāKael, do you want to be beta?āThat had been my question when the decree stated that the beta position would be transferred to Kaelās family simply because Father had no son.That day, someone had come to read out the decree and present Kaelās family with the beta seal. I had been there
Lucien pov Lucas was a spy. That was what Silas had uttered the moment both Lucas and Verya stepped out of the study. His voice was cool, steady, calm as ever as he took the seat beside me, unbothered on the surface, his expression unreadable, stoic, as though the events of today hadnāt affected
Happy new year, everyone! Lilith pov If someone had told me that just when I thought I was about to meet my end, it wouldnāt happen but instead, a big dogāno, a wolf, who just so happened to be the terrifying Dervic, the same one who had been intent on killing me last night, would now be on top of







