로그인DIANA POV:I lay on the bed, scrolling through my phone in the dark.The room was quiet except for the soft sound of the fan spinning above me. It was already late, but sleep wasn’t coming. My mind kept going back to the birthday party and everything that happened afterward. Nicholas had been gone for days again, and when he returned, he was covered in bandages like he had been in another fight.I sighed and kept scrolling.The door suddenly opened.I looked up, squinting in the darkness.“Nicholas?” I called softly.He stepped inside and closed the door behind him. He didn’t say anything at first. He just stood there for a second.I reached over and turned on the bedside lamp.The light came on.My eyes widened.All the bandages were gone.His face… it was completely healed, there were no burns, no cuts, no bruises. His skin looked perfect, like nothing had ever happened. Even the deep wounds I had seen on his arms and chest earlier were gone.“What… how?” I whispered, sitting up sl
AURELIAN POV:“What you saw,” he said calmly as the invisible walls around us disappeared completely, “was what this kingdom looked like before they came.”The beautiful city was gone now. There were no glowing towers, no silver lights. Only ruin. It looked like a wasteland. Collapsed structures stretched endlessly beneath a dark sky while dust drifted through broken streets that looked abandoned for centuries. Massive cracks ran through entire buildings. Some parts of the kingdom looked melted. Others looked shattered.Beside me, Iris went completely silent. Even I didn't know what to say.“Your brothers did this?” I finally asked.He nodded once. “Yes.”He turned and started walking through the hallway slowly. We followed him. The transparent walls beside us showed more destruction the further we moved. Entire towers split in half. Statues buried beneath dust. Broken bridges. And somehow, none of the dust settled. It floated endlessly through the whole place.“My father,” he began q
AURELIAN POV:My eyes opened slowly.For a second, I forgot where I was.Sunlight filtered through the dark glass ceiling above me.I sat up slowly on the edge of the bed and immediately checked inside my jacket.The dagger was still there.I stood up and walked to the mirror, staring at my reflection when my breath caught.Close to the door, three men stood there silently, dressed in dark silver clothing.Their glowing gold eyes stayed fixed on me calmly in the mirror.I turned around and looked at them.“Our master wishes to see you,” one of them said.“I figured.”They led me out of the room without another word.Outside, the palace looked different during the day. Brighter. Larger somehow. Sunlight reflected across the glass floors and silver walls while distant structures glowed beyond the massive windows overlooking the city.People moved calmly everywhere below.As we moved through one of the hallways, another set of guards approached from the opposite direction.And Iris was w
NICHOLAS POV:"I'm here," I said into the phone quietly.I stood in the middle of the forest clearing while the cold night wind moved through the trees around us. Behind me, six armed pack guards stood alert in formation.The voice on the phone stayed silent for a second."I can see that."Something about the way he said it immediately made my skin tighten. My eyes narrowed slowly as I scanned the darkness around the trees."I wanted you to come alone," he said."Yes, I know that."I looked back briefly toward the men I brought with me."But safety first."A small chuckle came through the phone."Fair enough."Then the line went dead.Immediately, every instinct inside me sharpened.Then suddenly, one of the bushes ahead moved. All my guards instantly raised their weapons."Stop right there!" one of them barked.The figure slowly stepped out from the darkness.And every single one of us froze.What the fuck…His body looked destroyed. Burned. His skin looked melted in certain places l
IRIS POV:He walked beside me silently through the massive hallway while the city lights reflected against the glass walls around us."Before we go further, you can call me Kael," he said."Hm… Kael, that's a nice name."He smiled.I still couldn't process where I was.People moved below us far beneath the bridge we walked on, dressed in dark elegant clothing while silver lights glowed under the streets themselves.But then I noticed, there were females everywhere.He noticed my expression changed."What happened?""You said where you come from you don't have females.""I said that?""You did, you said you only see females through pictures.""That's true, my father never allowed me to go close to any of them nor did he allow them to come close to his son.""This is the closest I've ever been with a female. The closest."Somehow it didn't sound right but it made a little sense."How are people hiding this?" I asked quietly.Kael looked toward me. "Hiding what?"I gestured around wildly
AURELIAN POV:The closer the man came, the more I understood one thing very clearly. This wasn't normal power. Even among Lycans.I kept my expression calm, but every instinct inside me stayed alert. My hand rested casually inside my jacket near the black dagger hidden against my chest. Just in case.Beside me, Iris looked completely stunned by everything around her. Meanwhile, all I could think was: What exactly is this place? And why bring us here?The king stopped directly in front of us. Up close, he somehow looked even larger. Not just physically. His presence itself felt heavy.Then his eyes shifted toward Iris and softened slightly. He slowly reached for her hand.I moved slightly immediately without thinking. His glowing brown eyes flicked toward me briefly. Then amusement appeared faintly on his face."I see," he murmured quietly.I didn't answer.The king gently lifted Iris's hand slightly while studying her carefully."It still amazes me," he said calmly. "Your kind are ver
IRIS POV:At exactly seven, a car pulled up outside my house.I was already by the window when it arrived. I had been ready for twenty minutes, but I had made myself sit down and wait because showing up early felt like admitting something I wasn't ready to admit yet.I picked up my bag and went out
IRIS POV:Caius looked down the table."The first matter," he said. "Edran."Edran straightened in his seat. He was three chairs down from Caius on the left side, and when he spoke, his voice sounded a bit furious, but he hid it."The northern coastal boundary," he said. "The Virex holdings have be
IRIS POV:We walked through the door.The weight of the room hit me before I saw the faces.It wasn't like before in the corridor. That had been one Lycan from a distance. This was a room full of them, closed in.The air was thick with something that pressed against my skin from every direction at
IRIS POV:From afar I spotted a young man near the entrance of the room.He had his back to us so I couldn't see his face, but the moment he turned to respond to someone beside him, my whole body started shaking.I hadn't even seen his face clearly and yet something inside me collapsed.My wolf wen







