INICIAR SESIÓNAurelia's POVThe hallway outside the throne room smelled of blood. The echoes of Selena’s screams still vibrated through the stone corridors, chasing after me like ghosts. My heart pounded so hard that every step felt unsteady, my breath constantly catching in my throat. I couldn’t believe what I had just witnessed. One minute Selena was laughing beside me during training hours, and the next she was on the ground, pinned beneath warriors after nearly stabbing me in front of everyone.The chaos had happened so fast I was still struggling to understand it.The little girl she had tried to use as a distraction still lay trembling in my arms. Her tiny fingers clutched onto my cloak, refusing to let go, her brown eyes huge with terror.“Shhh… you’re safe now,” I whispered, smoothing her sweaty hair behind her ear. “I’m here. No one will hurt you.”But even as I said it, I wasn’t sure if those words were true anymore.Behind me, warriors dragged Selena down the corridor.“No! Let me go! I
Selena’s POVI tasted Aurelia’s terror before she even spoke. The air between us vibrated with it.The Blood Well was still dripping with her horror, and I savored every second.She stood frozen, sword trembling in her hand, eyes wide like a doe just realizing she had walked willingly into a wolf’s mouth. Her fear rolled off her in waves, sweet and delicious.A low laugh crawled up my throat, echoing through the cavern.“I honestly cannot believe,” I purred, stepping closer, “that you accepted the invitation.”Her jaw clenched, shaking from rage. “I didn’t come for games, Selena. Where is my mother?”I clicked my tongue. Oh, this was too perfect.The light rays from the moon gave out her feat, illuminating her trembling hands, the rage vibrating under her skin like thunder waiting to explode.I grinned wider, teeth flashing.“You really don’t learn, do you?” I took another step, dragging the blood-soaked dagger behind me, letting sparks lighting off the stone floor. “You always walk r
Aurelia’s POVThe letter slipped from my fingers and fluttered to the floor, the words echoing through my skull like a curse.Meet me at the Blood Well, or your mother dies.For a moment, my lungs forgot how to work. My vision blurred at the edges, shrinking to a tunnel of panic. My heart hammered so violently that I pressed my hand against my chest, half certain it would crack my ribs apart."This bitch has some nerves.”My voice shook as I grabbed the paper again, staring at the ink as if the words would somehow rearrange into a joke, some twisted ploy that didn’t involve my mother—my mother, who had already suffered enough loss for this lifetime.I gasped sharply. “Sarah!”My voice echoed off the walls, frantic and raw. “Sarah!”Sarah was the maid assigned to watch over my mother. I waited, chest rising and falling too fast.Cold dread rushed through me, freezing the air in my lungs.I screamed her name again, louder, “Sarah! Answer me!”Silence.It suffocated me.I spun around and
Aurelia’s POVDominic’s scent still clung to my skin as dawn bled across the skin. You would think that comforted me, that it steadied a world spiraling into chaos. But after what happened in the Forgotten Realm… after what I saw nothing made sense anymore.I lay awake beside him, staring at the ceiling beams, hearing his breathing shift from deep sleep to restless half-wakefulness. Every time he turned toward me, I flinched. Every time he touched me, a dangerous thought whispered in the back of my skull.Selena’s soul still lingers in your son.Selena can only be destroyed with sacrifice.Selena wants him.And the worst part?I felt a pull toward her. A magnetic thread between predator and prey except I no longer knew which one I was.Dominic’s arm slid around my waist.“Aurelia,” he murmured, voice husky with sleep. “You haven’t slept.”I swallowed. “I’m fine.”“Don’t do that.” His voice sharpened, fingers tightening. “You’ve been different since you came back. Your aura feels wrong
Aurelia’s POVMy dreams were no longer mine.I knew the moment sleep took me now because my wolf curled inward instead of stretching free.And then he was there.Liam did not chase me in my dreams as expected, he was a gentleman.I found myself standing in endless twilight, the sky bruised purple and black, the moon hanging low like it was listening. The ground beneath my bare feet pulsed faintly, alive, responding to my presence.“Aurelia,” Liam’s voice murmured, smooth as silk, curling around my thoughts.I did not turn.“I won’t look at you,” I whispered.He laughed softly, unbothered. “You already are.”A shadow stretched along the ground beside me, rising, forming his shape before he stepped into it fully. He looked exactly as he always did.“You were tired,” he said gently, walking a slow circle around me. “I could feel it.”“Get out of my head.”“You invited me,” he replied calmly. “Every time you bled. Every time your wolf weakened.”His fingers brushed the air near my temple
Aurelia’s POVThe realm was tearing itself apart and somehow, I was still standing.The ground split beneath my feet, light and shadow ripping at each other like wild beasts, but my arms were locked around my children. Madeline screamed now, her cry sharp and terrified, while Kieran’s wail carried something else beneath it.“I’ve got you,” I whispered hoarsely, though my voice trembled. “I won’t let go. I swear it.”The Forgotten Realm convulsed violently. Towers cracked. The sky folded inward, fragments of silver mist raining down like dying stars. The spirits of cursed Lunas screamed as they were torn from the stone, their forms dissolving into ash and memory.And then everything went silent.The kind of silence that pressed against my ears until my heart thundered painfully in my chest.The light shifted.I looked up.She stood before me as though the chaos bowed to her presence.The Moon Goddess.Beauty did not describe her. Words failed entirely. Her skin glowed like liquid pearl







