ログインNICHOLAS POV:The night was quiet except for the sound of the engine. Cold wind pushed against the car while I drove through the empty road leading toward the mountain. Beside me, Diana sat silently. Her head rested lightly against the window while her glowing red eyes stared ahead without blinking.Inside my head, Morveth’s voice echoed calmly. ‘Once your wolf is unbound, you will finally understand what true power feels like.’I kept my eyes on the road. “And this unbinding thing changes what exactly?”‘Everything,’ he replied. ‘Your wolf with my power? You will be unstoppable when you shift.’I frowned slightly. ‘There is a Lycan hidden in these mountains,’ he continued. ‘She possesses the ability to bind wolves… and unbind them.’I looked ahead at the dark mountain road. “And she’ll help us just because we ask nicely?”‘No,’ Morveth said calmly. ‘But she will be left with no choice.’“But we know Lycans have way more strength than ordinary wolves.”‘She definitely has more power t
DIANA 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
IRIS POV:I walked down the porch steps slowly.Fiona watched me come toward her with an expression I recognized because I had seen it in my own mirror. My face. But the way she was wearing it was nothing like me.She looked almost amused."What is this?" she said.I stopped a few feet from her.Sh
IRIS POV:Sarah came back ten minutes later with two mugs and set one in front of me without a word.She sat cross-legged on the bed and wrapped both hands around hers and looked at me."How long before he gets here?" she asked."He said he was coming," I said. "He didn't say when."Sarah looked at
IRIS POV:I closed my bedroom door behind us.Sarah sat on the bed, and I sat beside her."You remember that morning," I said, "when Aurelian sent a box and there was a dress inside?""I remember," she said."And you remember the car that came at seven?""Yes.""I didn't tell you where it was takin
IRIS POV:I used to think staying calm in the worst situations could keep fear away.But here I am, speaking calmly while fear trembles inside me, making my legs shake on their own.I lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling."Stay calm, Iris," my wolf whispered after days of silence.A bitter







