로그인IRIS POV: I stopped the car at the base of the mountain and stared through the windshield. Something was wrong. The fog was gone, all of it. Every single time I had ever looked at this mountain, day or night, there was always fog sitting around it so thick you couldn't see past the first line of trees. Now there was nothing. Just the mountain, clear and open all the way to the top like it had never been covered. "What the fuck," I said quietly. I sat there for a moment looking at it. Then I put the car in drive and started up. The road up the mountain was narrow and rocky and my car moved slowly over it. The whole mountain felt completely different without the fog, wider somehow. I reached the top and parked and stepped out. My eyes found Aurelian immediately. He was digging. A large hole in the ground near the treeline, dirt covered his arms and hands. I walked toward him slowly. Then I stopped, staring at the ground. Two wolves lay on the ground. Both dead, their bodies
AURELIAN POV:The night was quiet and I was standing on the balcony with both hands on the railing staring at the moon.Vaelthor's words kept coming back to me. Everything he said in that kingdom. ‘There is something inside you, Aurelian Virix. The future of the werewolf race depends on it,’ he said.Then I heard it."Help." Someone whispered into my ear from behind.I turned around immediately.But there was nothing. The balcony was empty, the door behind me was closed, nobody was there.I turned back slowly."Help." The voice whispered again, right beside my ear.My whole body went cold.I knew that voice.But suddenly, my eyes widened as my mind snapped back.It was her voice, the Lycan woman who stays deep in the mountain, but how I recognized her voice shocked me.‘She’s in danger,’ my wolf said. ‘Move! Now!’My heart slammed violently against my chest."No…" I whispered.And then I heard it.A distant wolf howl echoing somewhere far beyond the woods from the mountain.Before I c
NICHOLAS POV:‘Go up to her.’The old woman stood ahead of us without moving.Then suddenly, a wave of fog passed through where she stood.And she vanished."Where did she go?" Diana asked beside me.‘That’s her trick,’ Morveth said inside my head. ‘She did the same thing when Aurelian came here.’I smirked slightly.“An old woman with tricks? Sounds like a witch to me.”Diana looked toward the mountain quietly while the fog moved around us.“We keep moving,” I said.We continued climbing upward.The mountain felt colder the higher we went. The fog thickened around the trees while rocks crunched beneath our feet. Soon I could barely see behind us anymore.Then finally, I saw it.A small hut sitting near the edge of the mountain.It was made of dark wood and surrounded with old stone.The place looked ancient.“She must be there,” I muttered.Then suddenly, I heard it.A low, deep growl coming from somewhere beside us.I started walking toward it slowly.I stopped immediately.Another
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
IRIS POV:We landed smoothly.The island was massive, trees and light and a strip of private tarmac that ended maybe fifty meters from the water.I looked out as we slowed.My heart was already going faster than it should have been.I hadn't paid much attention to it on the jet, but now that we wer
IRIS POV: I held the card for a moment longer than I should have. Then I folded it, put it back in the envelope, and slipped it into the drawer of my bedside table, face down. "Iris," Sarah started again. "I heard you the first time," I said. She pressed her lips together and said nothing
IRIS POV: Julie's eyes narrowed. "What's happening?" Sarah and I looked at each other again. "Nothing," I said. "You're lying." Julie dropped her bag on the floor and walked straight to the wardrobe where Sarah was standing. She looked at the dresses laid out on the bed. Then she turned bac
IRIS POV: I was still sitting on the edge of the bed when the door opened. Aurelian walked in, dark shirt still open at the collar, his phone in his hand, and his expression completely composed. But his eyes were different. Something was moving behind them that he was working very hard to k







