MasukLiora’s POVI stood near the edge of the room with my heart pounding violently against my ribs, trying not to let them see how terrified I truly was.The guards had spread out around me now. Their eyes stayed fixed on me carefully, uneasily, as though I was some unstable creature waiting to explode.I lifted my chin despite the trembling beginning to creep into my body.“You should let me go, while you still can" I warned again. One of the younger guards scoffed nervously.“You think we’re idiots?”“No, I think you wouldn't waste your life” I replied coldly. Silence followed and several of them were visibly tense.The Council clearly hadn’t told them the full truth.I could see it in the way their jaws tightened, the way their nostrils flared, the way they kept glancing at one another.They knew my blood was dangerous but they thought dangerous meant deadly, not intoxicating or maddening or something capable of reducing trained wolves into unstable creatures driven by hunger and ins
Liora’s POVThe moment they dragged me back inside the house, the air changed and I stumbled forward as one of the guards shoved me harshly.“Move.”“I am moving,” I snapped breathlessly.Another rough grip tightened painfully around my arm.“You’ve caused enough trouble already" he said.My knees still burned from hitting the pavement outside and my palms stung too.The guards forced me deeper into the house while talking angrily over one another.“She nearly got outside the gate!”“You idiots almost let her go!”“She runs fast for someone who was unconscious earlier.”“I told you to watch her!”Fear buzzed painfully beneath my skin, but I refused to let it show. If they smelled weakness, I was finished.The older guard suddenly shoved me into a chair so hard it scraped loudly across the wooden floor.“Sit there" he ordered.I glared at him immediately.“You don’t have to manhandle me" I said sternly. “And you don’t have to act insane" he shot back.“I tried to escape being kidnappe
Alpha Kael’s POVThe grand hall still smelled of tension when I gave the order.“Lock them here,” I said coldly, nodding toward the Council members.A ripple of protest immediately rose behind me.“You are making a grave mistake, Alpha Kael" Magnus said.“You will regret interfering with Council authority" Selena added. “You are being manipulated—”“Enough,” I snapped.The word cut through the air like a blade and silence fell instantly.I didn’t look back at them as I continued issuing orders.“Double the guards at every exit. No one leaves this hall until I return.”“Yes, Alpha,” several guards responded immediately.Rio leaned slightly toward me as we stepped away from the center of the hall.“You’re actually going after her,” he said, voice half amused, half curious.I didn’t slow my steps.“I’m retrieving stolen property" I replied. Rio smirked faintly.“That’s what you’re calling it.”I stopped walking abruptly.The air around me dropped several degrees and Rio raised his hand
Liora’s POVThe first thing I felt was pain. A deep, throbbing ache at the back of my head that pulsed painfully with every movement.A soft groan escaped my lips before I could stop it.My eyes snapped open instantly then fear hit me immediately. I jerked upright too quickly and regretted it instantly as dizziness slammed into me again.“Easy,” one of the guards muttered from the front seat.My breathing quickened.The inside of the vehicle was dark despite the sunlight outside, the windows tinted heavily enough that the city beyond looked blurred and distorted.We were in the city?My stomach dropped as panic exploded inside me.“No—”I immediately grabbed the door handle beside me and pulled hard but it was locked.“Let me out!” I snapped, pulling it again.The guard beside me grabbed my wrist roughly.“Sit down.”“Don’t touch me!”I jerked away from him violently, pressing myself against the opposite side of the seat.My heart hammered painfully against my ribs.I could barely bre
Alpha Kael’s POVThe moment I heard Liora scream my name, something inside me snapped.Pure rage tore through my chest as I stormed away from the window and down the hallway with enough force to make the guards and servants scatter from my path immediately.My boots struck the marble floors violently.I hated i had called her minw because it sounded too close to attachment or weakness and I refused to let some cursed girl become my weakness.But that did not change the fact that those bastards had touched what belonged to me inside my estate without permission.That alone was enough to make my wolf murderous.By the time I reached the grand hall again, the air around me felt scorching.The High Council members stood in the center of the room exactly where I had left them earlier, their long dark robes making them look more like shadows than people.I wanted to rip that composure apart.“You took her" I said, my voice low.Magnus folded his hands behind his back.“She is being relocate
Liora’s POVSomething felt wrong the moment the guards grabbed me. Not the usual kind of wrong I had grown used to inside this estate.This felt different.My heart pounded hard against my ribs as the guards dragged me down the hallway, their grips painfully tight around my arms.“Wait—!” I protested, struggling slightly. “Where are you taking me?”Neither of them answered. Their silence only made the fear growing inside me worse.The corridor blurred slightly around me as they forced me forward. My slippers scraped against the polished floor, my breathing uneven as I tried to keep up with their aggressive pace.“This isn’t the way to Alpha Kael’s study,” I said sharply.The direction they were taking me wasn’t toward the main halls.“What’s going on? “Where are you taking me?" I demanded louder now, trying harder to pull free.One of the guards tightened his grip painfully.“Quiet.”“I said let go of me!”The second guard suddenly shoved me forward harder.“Move.”Anger flashed throu
Liora’s POVThe air rushed past me in a violent blur. My breath tore from my throat, a scream caught somewhere between panic and disbelief as the ground surged closer.The wind clawed at my skin, tore through my hair, wrapped around my body like invisible hands trying to drag me down faster.My hea
Liora’s POVI was going to lose my mind in this room. The silence wasn’t peaceful, it was suffocating.Every second that passed felt stretched, heavy, pressing against my chest like an invisible weight I couldn’t shake off. The walls were too perfect, too clean, too quiet, like they were hiding som
Kael’s POVThe council stood before me, their expressions carved from centuries of authority and control.My hand remained at the small of Liora’s back, firm and possessive. I could feel the subtle rise and fall of her breathing against me, uneven despite the way she held her chin high, trying to a
Liora’s POVThe moment we stepped into the room, the door slammed shut behind us then a second later, I heard the heavy click of the lock.My chest tightened slightly as I turned, staring at the door like it might open again if I just looked hard enough but it painfully didn’t.“Unbelievable.”Fay’







