LOGINValkyra’s POVThe moment Zane ducked behind Cassius’s car, my focus shifted instantly.Not to him.To Cassius.Because unlike Zane, who chose strategy and Cassius chose survival.He had run.Not cautiously. Not tactically.He ran like a man who knew exactly what would happen if he stayed a second longer.Coward.My finger tightened on the trigger without hesitation.Bang!The shot rang out, sharp and precise, aimed straight at his retreating form.But he was fast.Faster than I expected.He swerved, barely escaping the bullet as he disappeared out of clear sight, using distance and chaos as his shield.Around me, the guards scrambled, diving for cover the moment the first shots rang out. Some dropped behind pillars, others behind vehicles, all of them abandoning formation in favor of survival.Pathetic.I adjusted my stance, lifting the second gun, ready to fire again…Click.Nothing.My brows furrowed.I pulled the trigger again.Click.Silence.No recoil.No gunshot.Just the hollow
Zane’s POV“You really wouldn’t want me to choose…”The words slid off Valkyra’s tongue like a threat dressed as a game, but all they did was send a cold, violent anger crawling down my spine.How dare she.For a second, everything else faded… the warriors, Cassius, even the burning pain in my arm and all I saw was her… standing there like she had already claimed something that wasn’t hers.I didn’t hesitate.“I’ll only say this once, Valkyra…” My voice came out low, controlled, but laced with something far darker. I pointed straight at her, my jaw tightening as I held her gaze. “Put that fucking gun down.”She didn’t even blink.If anything, she leaned into it.“Else what?” she snapped immediately, cutting me off before the threat could fully leave my mouth. “Huh? You’ll have me killed?”The way she said it sounded like mockery, like she was daring me, that alone set something dangerous off inside me.She waved the gun again, slower this time, more deliberate, and I caught it… the sh
Valkyra’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
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.
Naya’s POVLight filtered into my eyes through my eyelids causing me to stir.Rays of sunlight spread softly across my face, dragging me out of sleep.For a moment, I felt this softness in my chest, like something had been lifted from my chestI turned my head slightly.And there she was, Winnie… s
Naya’s POV The steam from my shower still lingered in the room when I stepped out, wrapping a towel tightly around my body. My hair dripped down my back in dark strands, water trailing slowly over my shoulders. For a moment, everything felt calm. Quiet. Like maybe I could pretend the duel wasn’
Zane’s POV Valkyra looked pleased with herself. That smug, satisfied curve of her lips as the chamber buzzed around her made something dark coil in my chest. She thought she had already won. I didn’t bother addressing her. Not now. Not when Naya had just volunteered herself for slaughter. Wi







