LOGINAnd now we cry together...
Aria:Steam curled softly around me as I sank into the warm bath, trying to scrub away the blood, mine, theirs, Brenna’s, from my skin. It wouldn’t come off. Not really. It felt carved into my bones.I had just leaned back when the bathroom door opened.Dominic stepped in without a word, his eyes scanning me in one slow sweep—checking, searching, counting every bruise as though looking for ones he somehow missed.His gaze caught on my shoulder.Where the claw mark cut deep.But I couldn’t care less.At this point, this cut was the easiest thing that happened today.He moved toward me, jaw tightening, but when he reached the tub his expression softened. His fingers brushed over the wound, barely a touch, but I still winced.He froze.“We need to get this cleaned, it is a little too deep for you to just leave it like that.” he murmured. His voice wasn’t Alpha-strong now. It was quiet. Almost careful. “You should have told me you were hurt. I would have covered it before you entered the
Dominic:The attack died down with the same eerie swiftness it had begun, one moment steel and blood and bodies falling, the next a suffocating silence settling over the estate like ash after a wildfire.It was dark inside, given the fact that I had ordered for the power to be cut off. But the last thing that I expected was everything to die out so quickly once the power had been cut off.I stood in the courtyard, chest heaving, my wolf clawing at my insides as men dragged corpses out of hallways and searched for survivors. Every instinct in me demanded that I keep moving, keep destroying anything that threatened her. But I forced myself still long enough to issue orders.“Search every corridor,” I barked. “Every exit, every tunnel. I want every dead accounted for and every living questioned. I want to know who betrayed us from the inside, and I want to know what damage they did.”Alessandro’s boots echoed as he came to a stop beside me, wiping blood from his jaw. “Alpha… this doesn’t
Katherine:Flashback…Her name was Elder Marienne.I hadn’t seen her since the night Dominic’s mother died. It was rare when elders visited Lunas to begin with. At least, since she died.. She was ancient by wolf standards, elegant in that predatory way only the oldest council members were, silver hair braided tight, posture carved from stone, eyes sharp enough to flay skin from bone. She had always been the quiet one on the council, but the one no one dared cross.And she had walked, uninvited, into my chambers hours before Dominic dragged me to the dungeon.I had been pacing, trembling from pain and fear and rage I refused to acknowledge, when her cold voice drifted from behind me.“Luna Katherine.”I froze instantly. My heart racing as I feared what was to come.She stepped inside, closing the door with a finger. No guard stopped her. None ever would. They wouldn’t even dare. And if she wanted, no one would even know that she was here.“Elder… Marienne,” I breathed. “I didn’t expec
Aria:The air was thick with fear, sharp, metallic, suffocating, but for the first time since this nightmare began, every girl in the room looked at me not with envy, not with bitterness…But with expectation.Dominic’s kiss still burned faintly on my lips. His scent lingered on my skin, grounding me even as the torches flickered, dying one by one. I forced my breath steady and turned to the girls.“Barricade the door,” I ordered. “They are going to come back, and we are going to need to be ready. Grab whatever you can when we’re done. We are going to need to fight them off when they approach, and they are going to need to do so.”They hesitated for only a heartbeat before pushing tables, chairs, and crates against the entrance. Lysa and two others grabbed wooden poles, using them like spears. The headmistresses stood by the walls, listening for footsteps. “Why are there so many chairs here?”“This used to be one of the main halls for meetings.” Natalia answered. “Then things changed.
Dominic:Aria’s eyes met mine, wide, shaken, alive, and my entire body nearly buckled with the relief that slammed into me.I wanted to pull her into my arms. I wanted to breathe her in, feel her warmth, confirm she was whole. But the girls were everywhere, terrified, trembling, some of them covered in blood that wasn’t theirs. And I could already hear footsteps echoing through the tunnels.“You need to move the girls from here,” I said, turning to the headmistresses. “Every one of you needs to get somewhere safer. There’s another swarm inside. They are going to find them. Take them to the tunnel in my quarters. No one is going to…”“Alpha…”My gamma burst through the broken doorway, chest rising and falling sharply.“Do not move the women,” he said, urgency slicing through every word. “It’s not safe outside this room. They haven’t managed to cover the entire estate, but this is the one safe place for them.”I frowned. “Explain.”“There are more infiltrators. We’ve secured some sectio
Aria:The tunnels were cold…But it wasn’t because of the temperature, because of the silence.The patience that we needed to have knowing that out there… out in the place that we called our home… everything that we held close, whatever we had left, it was breaking apart.Two headmistresses led us through the winding stone passage, both armed, both shaken. Natalia, the human one, carried a silver-laced spear she could barely lift, but her grip was steady. The other, Melina, had a dagger clenched in her fist, her face set in grim determination.They guided us to one of the underground shelters. A heavy metal door sealed behind us with a groaning echo that vibrated through my chest.“Everyone… stay quiet,” Natalia whispered. “We are safe in here, but those men… whoever they are, are too many and too strong. They will keep coming in numbers.”“What if they find us here?” One of the girls asked, her voice trembling.“Then we fight until the very end. The Alpha would have heard about what







