LOGINValkyra’s POV“Luna…?”The word rolled off my tongue like an insult.I laughed… slow at first, then louder, fuller, letting it echo across the courtyard as every single pair of eyes fixed on me like I had just lost my mind.Good.Let them think that.Let them feel that.Because nothing terrified people more than a woman they couldn’t predict.Then just as quickly as the laughter came, I stopped.My face straightened.Cold.Certain.“Who wants to be Luna…” I said, my voice dropping into something steadier, something sharper, “when I can be the Alpha?”Silence.Beautiful, stunned silence.God… the looks on their faces.If I could bottle that moment.. the confusion, the disbelief, the way their minds scrambled to catch up with what I had just said… I would.I had waited for this.Waited to see them look at me like they didn’t understand the game anymore.“Shocked, right?” I tilted my head slightly, watching them one after the other, savoring it.Cassius recovered first… of course he did.
Zane’s POV The moment Sagio roared… everything changed. It wasn’t just sound. It was force. Raw, violent power that tore through the air like a shockwave, rattling the ground beneath us and vibrating through my bones as if something ancient had just been awakened inside me. Cassius, who had been standing over me just seconds ago, claws raised, ready to strike the final blow… was thrown back like he weighed nothing. His body lifted off me in a brutal sweep of invisible force and slammed hard against the ground several feet away. I didn’t think. I didn’t pause. The moment his body hit the floor, I moved. Sagio surged forward with a speed that felt unnatural even to me, closing the distance between us in a blink as a low, murderous growl ripped from my chest. He didn’t deserve to recover. He didn’t deserve to breathe. Naya was still trapped! Why should breathe? Claws extended, I lunged at him, crashing into his wolf before he could fully regain his footing. My jaws snapped
Naya’s POVThe moment my body hit the hard wooden chair again, the impact shot through my spine, snapping me violently out of whatever trance I had been dragged through.Air rushed back into my lungs like I had been drowning.I blinked rapidly, my vision struggling to adjust as I looked around… the same cracked walls, the same suffocating silence, the same cold room that had held me captive.I was back.Back in the present.For a second, I just sat there… frozen, disoriented, like my mind hadn’t caught up with my body yet.Then it hit me.Everything.The blood.The screams.My parents.A sharp, broken sound tore out of my chest as I threw my head back and yelled into the empty space, the grief ripping through me with a force I couldn’t contain.“Ahhh…!”My voice echoed against the walls, raw and uneven, carrying everything I didn’t know how to process.Frustration.Pain.Confusion.It all collided at once.But just as quickly as the scream came, it died.My head dropped forward, my br
Naya’s POV“No…”The word slipped out of me like something fragile breaking.My knees gave way beneath me as I dropped beside them, my vision blurring through tears that refused to stop falling. My parents lay there, unmoving, their hands still intertwined like even death hadn’t been strong enough to pull them apart.For a moment… I couldn’t breathe.I had seen it happen.Every second of it.The struggle… the blood… the way their bodies gave in.And now I was here, kneeling beside them, staring at what was left of the only people who had ever been mine.My hands hovered over them, unsure, trembling like touching them would make it all more real than it already was.“Mum…” My voice cracked softly, my throat tightening. “Dad…”But silence answered me.A broken sound escaped my lips as I bent forward, my shoulders shaking, grief clawing its way out of me in waves I couldn’t hold back. It felt like something inside my chest was being ripped apart all over again, like I was losing them twi
Naya’s POVThe door opened.Slowly.Painfully slow.As though time itself had decided to stretch this moment… to make me feel every second of it.My heart pounded violently against my chest, each beat louder than the last, echoing in my ears as I stood frozen, my eyes locked on that door.Any moment now…Any moment…My mother would be standing there.Exposed and defenseless. Standing at the mercy of monsters.Tears blurred my vision as they pooled in my eyes, my breath coming out in uneven gasps as dread coiled tighter and tighter around my chest.I knew how this ended.I knew.But knowing didn’t make it easier.If anything… It made it worse.Because now..I had to watch it happen.The door creaked open further.Light from the hallway spilled into the room.And then…It fully opened.And what I saw…Made my breath hitch.Standing there…Wasn’t my mother.Not in the way I remembered.Not in the way I expected.No…Standing before those men…Was a wolf.A white wolf.Her fur glistened l
Naya’s POVThe wind sliced past me so suddenly it felt real.Too real.A sharp whoosh cut through the air, and before I could even process what was happening, I saw it…A silver bullet.Flying straight at me.My heart lurched violently into my throat, my body reacting before my mind could catch up as I gasped and squeezed my eyes shut, instinctively bracing for the impact.Waiting patiently for the pain, death or the darkness that came after death..But..Seconds later and nothing came.The yell and panic in the air still filled my senses..That’s when I remembered!I wasn’t real.. I was just inside a memory..So I finally opened my eyes…Just in time to see the masked man who had fired the bullet… walking through me.My breath hitched.I spun around sharply, my heart still racing, watching as he continued forward like I didn’t even exist, like I wasn’t standing right there in front of him just seconds ago.And then…It hit me hard..My parents.My eyes widened.“They’re not here…” I
Zane’s POVThe moment I left the clinic, rage burned through my veins like wildfire.Every step I took through the castle corridors echoed with the same thought in my head.Louise.That bastard had no business being anywhere near Naya.Yet somehow he had slithered into her room like a snake, whispe
Naya’s POVMy eyes flickered open slowly.The first thing I saw was Zane.He was standing at the door, one hand wrapped around the knob as if he had been about to leave. But his face wasn’t turned toward the door.It was turned toward me.He looked frozen.Like someone who had been caught between s
Zane’s POVI couldn’t speak.The words lodged somewhere between my chest and my throat and refused to move.Everything was happening too fast.This wasn’t the plan.She wasn’t supposed to awaken her wolf now.She was supposed to just carry the pup… give birth… and leave.That had been the arrangeme
Zane’s POVI tightened the lace of my boot with more force than necessary.The leather strained under my fingers, but it wasn’t the boot I was fighting.It was the audacity.High Priest Frostveil thought he could walk into my territory and blackmail my elders into bending the law for his daughter.







