Se connecterAURELIAN POV:I stayed on my knees in the middle of the empty Mating Hall long after Iris left. Rain crashed softly against the stained-glass windows while her last words kept replaying inside my head.Don't follow me.I should've followed her anyway.I stared down at the floor, breathing slowly, trying to think past the noise in my head. Everything was moving too fast now. And for the first time in a very long time, I genuinely didn't know what move came next.Then a hand tapped my shoulder lightly. I froze and looked up.Kael stood there casually like he had been there the entire time. I immediately stood up and stepped back.He smiled. "Hey.""Tell me you don't have a rod hidden somewhere," I said dryly.Kael burst out laughing."Nah," he said, raising both hands. "That one was just for fun.""For fun?""I knew you wouldn't die."His purple eyes glowed faintly with amusement."That's one of the traits I inherited from my father."I kept watching him carefully."I can't recreate uni
IRIS POV:The moment we stepped into the Mating Hall, a strange feeling settled inside my chest. The place was empty. The silver markings of the mating altar glowed faintly beneath the dim lights.Aurelian walked ahead of me slowly. I stopped near the center aisle."How did it start here?" I asked quietly. "What are you talking about?"He slowly turned toward me."Telling you this is dangerous," he said. "I'm serious, Iris. I don't know what hearing too much might trigger inside you."I folded my arms tightly."At this point, I think we passed dangerous a long time ago."A faint smile almost appeared on his face, but it disappeared just as quickly."You were supposed to be mated here," he said.My brows pulled together immediately."To who?""Nicholas."I blinked."What?""You were standing at that altar," he continued quietly, pointing toward the front of the hall. "About to become the Luna of the Dark Moon Pack.""That doesn't even make sense," I said quickly. "Nicholas is the Beta.
IRIS POV:Aurelian slowly pushed himself up from the floor.Blood still stained the ground where he had been lying, but the wound in his chest was already gone.My hands were shaking, still covered in blood.Then something started happening.The students around us, one by one, became confused, like they had suddenly woken up from a sleepwalk and were shocked at how they had reached where they were.Serah, who had walked past me like I was a ghost earlier, suddenly stopped in the middle of the hallway. She turned around slowly, frowning.“I almost forgot what brought me here,” she muttered, rubbing her temple. She walked back toward me, her eyes landing on the bloodstain spreading across the floor. “Iris… what the hell happened?”More students gathered, whispering and pointing.Their eyes moved from the blood to Aurelian’s stained shirt, then to my bloody hands, and finally to the rod lying there like evidence of a crime.Mr. Richard, the principal, came rushing down the hallway, his f
AURELIAN POV:Everything was blurry.Pain throbbed through my chest with every weak breath I took.The metal rod was buried deep, its tip brushing dangerously close to my heart. One wrong movement and it would tear through completely.I could barely keep my eyes open. The world tilted and spun around me. Voices echoed distantly, but they sounded far away, like they were underwater.“Aurelian! Somebody help! Please!” Iris’s voice cut through the fog in my head.She was screaming, terrified. I tried to move, but moving would be a risk. Blood kept pouring from the wound.All the students in the hallway walked past like nothing was happening.Some even stepped around us without looking down. Their eyes were blank and empty.Serah appeared at the end of the hallway. Iris rushed to her desperately.“Serah! Help! He’s hurt!”But Serah just kept walking, passing right by us like Iris wasn’t even there. Like we were invisible.Iris looked around in confusion and panic. She pulled out her phone
IRIS POV:I kept staring at both of them, trying to understand what was happening in front of me. The entire class was asleep and it wasn't normal. One minute they were listening and whispering and laughing, and the next minute their heads were on their desks like somebody switched them off. And neither Aurelian nor Kael looked surprised by it. That was the worst part."You two aren't brothers," I said again, slowly.Kael looked at me for a moment before glancing sideways at Aurelian. There was amusement on his face. Then he sighed softly."Well… this is awkward.""Awkward?" I repeated. "You people are acting insane right now."Aurelian took a step toward me immediately."Iris…""No." I looked directly at Kael. "You answer me. Who are you really?"For the first time since he entered the classroom, Kael stopped smiling. He slid one hand into his pocket and looked around the room at the sleeping students before speaking."He's my brother now.""What does that even mean?"Kael laughed qu
AURELIAN POV:"Oh… so you met him."I kept my voice calm even though rage was slowly burning through me already."What did he tell you?"Iris stared at me like she couldn't believe my response."That's it?" she asked quietly. "That's all you have to say?"I frowned slightly."You didn't tell me you had a brother," she said.The students were still moving around the classroom noisily, but she still leaned closer and lowered her voice."You literally told me your wolf secret before telling me you had a brother."I tried not to smile."The only reason you know about my wolf is because you asked."Her eyes narrowed immediately."So because I didn't ask if you had siblings, you decided not to tell me?""No, it's not like that."I raised both hands slightly in surrender."Alright. I'm sorry."She folded her arms."From now on," I continued, "I'll start telling you random things you never asked about."Before she could reply, a student suddenly walked over carrying a stack of books carefully
AURELIAN POV:I looked at her quietly for a few seconds before finally speaking."What is the first law every parent must obey the moment a pup is born?"Iris frowned slightly, confused by the sudden question."What?""The law," I repeated calmly. "The first law."Then realization crossed her face
IRIS POV:I squeezed myself to the end of the car, leaving a huge space between me and him.His right hand suddenly moved toward me, making me flinch hard, my body still wired from everything that had just happened, but then he calmly clicked a discreet button on the center console.A hidden panel
IRIS POV:“…I can’t.” My voice cracked. “I can’t.”Nicholas’s brows furrowed.Tears spilled over as I spun away from the altar and ran, my gown dragging across the glass tiles toward the huge golden doors of the mating hall.“Iris!” My father’s voice echoed behind me, but I didn’t stop. I couldn’t
IRIS POV: Elder Sylvaris stepped forward, the ceremonial blade resting in his hands. Camera lights flickered from every corner. The ceremony was being broadcast live on every station. “Tonight, beneath the witness of the moon and the ancestors, two souls stand before us to be bound by fate, duty,







