LOGINNaya’s POVThe way Zane stormed out didn’t need explanation.It was written all over him the rigid set of his shoulders, the sharpness in his voice, the way the door slammed harder than necessary. He was angry.Typical Zane.When things didn’t go his way, when he couldn’t control the situation, when something slipped out of his grip… anger was always his first response. It used to intimidate me once. Now, sitting here with everything I had seen, everything I had remembered, it only made something inside me tighten in a different way.Because this wasn’t just about him anymore.This mess… this feud, this hatred, this tangled history… it didn’t start today. But somehow, it had all circled back to me.And I was going to end it.The door clicked shut, sealing the room in a quiet that felt heavier than before. I let out a slow breath, then turned my attention to the one person Zane hated seeing near me.Louise.For a moment, neither of us spoke.But what caught me off guard wasn’t his pres
Zane’s POVThe door creaked.It was a small sound… barely noticeable under normal circumstances but in the silence that had wrapped itself around the room, it cut through sharply enough to pull my attention instantly.For a brief second, something in my chest eased.Winnie.It had to be her. I’d sent her to get a few things Naya might need anything to make her more comfortable when she woke up. The thought of her waking in a cold, unfamiliar hospital room without anything of her own didn’t sit right with me.So I looked up.Expecting relief.Expecting familiarity.Instead…My jaw tightened.Every bit of ease I’d felt vanished so quickly it almost felt like it had never been there.Louise.Ruby.And behind them… Nikolas.A slow, dangerous anger settled deep in my chest as I pushed myself up from the chair beside Naya’s bed, my gaze locking directly onto Louise.“What the fuck are you doing here?”There was no attempt to soften it. No restraint.Just pure irritation… sharp and unfiltere
Naya’s POV“They are coming, Naya! You need to go…!”The urgency in her voice sliced through the fog in my head, sharp and commanding, but before I could even form a response…before I could ask who or how… her figure broke apart right in front of me.Not fading nor vanishing.It was breaking like ash caught in a violent wind, her body scattered into tiny fragments of light and disappeared into nothing.I stood there, frozen.The silence she left behind was louder than her warning.My chest rose and fell unevenly as I turned slowly, my eyes scanning the room, searching for another exit, an escape route, anything… but there was nothing.Just the door in front of me.My fingers curled slightly as I swallowed hard, forcing my feet to move despite the weight pressing down on my body. Every step felt heavier than the last, like something unseen was trying to hold me back.But I didn’t let it stop me.My hand reached for the handle.For a second, I hesitated.Then I pulled it open and walked
Zane’s POV“What do you need…?”The question came out lower than I intended, rough at the edges, like something inside me had already started giving in before I even finished asking it.For a moment, no one spoke.Then the woman stepped forward, her presence steady, almost unnervingly calm in contrast to the storm clawing through my chest.“We need to be in her room,” she said. “I’ll channel the energy from her belongings… and find her.”Her words should have brought relief.Instead, doubt followed immediately.I glanced at Louise, then at Ruby, searching their faces for something.., maybe certainty.. but found nothing I could hold on to. Just tension. Just waiting.My gaze returned to the woman.“You’re sure you can find her?” I asked, my voice tightening despite myself.She didn’t hesitate.“The goddess sent me here for a reason,” she replied quietly. “I believe that reason is to find her.”Something about the way she said it… like it wasn’t a guess, like it wasn’t hope, but fact..
Zane’s POV“I’ll ask again, you piece of shit… what the fuck are you doing here?!”The words tore out of me before I could even think to restrain them, raw and edged with everything boiling inside my chest. I didn’t care that we had just been in the middle of a fight, didn’t care that Valkyra had nearly turned the entire grounds into a graveyard. The only thing that mattered was the man standing in front of me… the last person I ever wanted to see anywhere near my pack.Louise.He opened his mouth, already looking like he was about to spit something just as venomous back, but before he could, Ruby’s hand slipped into his, tightening just enough to stop him.I saw it… the way his jaw clenched, the way his nostrils flared… like he was swallowing something he very much wanted to say.It didn’t make me trust him.Not even close.“Alpha…” Ruby’s voice cut in, softer, controlled, and entirely out of place in the middle of the tension choking the air. She dipped her head slightly, a gesture
Zane’s POVThe moment Valkyra’s feet left the ground, something inside me went still.Not out of fear… no, I’d felt fear before, faced and broken through it… but this… this was something else entirely. It was the kind of shock that settles deep in your bones, quiet and heavy, because your mind is still trying to catch up with what your eyes are already seeing.She was rising.Slowly at first, like the earth itself had loosened its grip on her, and then higher, steadier and very unnatural.The wind answered to her gravity.It came out of nowhere, curling around her body in sharp, restless currents, lifting strands of her hair, tugging at her clothes, as though the air itself had bent to her will. And then the smoke followed… thick, black, twisting around her like a living thing, wrapping and unwrapping in slow, hypnotic spirals.Her eyes…They weren’t hers anymore.It had turned pitch black, empty and void of emotion.And the way her arms stretched outward, palms open as if embracing s
Zane’s POV“This shipment just arrived this morning, Alpha,” the manager was saying enthusiastically.He gestured toward a glass display where several velvet-lined boxes had been arranged neatly.“These pieces are expected to draw a lot of attention at tomorrow night’s auction. The emerald pieces a
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







