MasukIRIS 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
IRIS POV:"It was this close."Serah nearly slammed the brakes."You're lying.""I'm serious!"Her eyes widened dramatically as she drove."No way."I covered my face immediately out of embarrassment."I don't even know what came over me."Serah gasped loudly."So you were actually about to kiss him?"I groaned."Please stop shouting.""And then what happened?""The doctor walked in."Serah slapped the steering wheel."Nah, that doctor is evil."I couldn't stop laughing despite how embarrassed I felt."It was so awkward."Serah glanced at me sideways immediately."Oh, he definitely likes you."I looked out the window quickly."We're not talking about that.""You almost kissed him.""That was just something that happened in like a moment.""Exactly… you don't get that moment with everyone."I sighed and leaned back into the seat. I didn't tell her about Aurelian's unbound wolf. I couldn't because he made me promise not to tell anyone."It's going to be so awkward seeing him today.""Wh
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 slowly."You bind their wolf."I nodded once."Yes."Silence filled the room briefly. Then her expression slowly changed. Her eyes lowered toward my body before lifting back to mine again."Your wolf isn't bound?" she asked quietly.I saw it immediately on her face, fear. She slowly stepped backward."Aurelian…""Stop," I said quickly. "That's exactly the problem."She stayed frozen near the table."That law was created by Virx himself," I continued. "But his own wolf was never bound."Her brows pulled together immediately."He's a Lycan," she argued. "You're just a normal wolf."Deep down, the irony almost made me laugh. If only she knew."But I can control it," I said calmly.Iris shook he
AURELIAN POV:I closed my eyes and let my body go limp. The pain from the rod in my leg was real, but I couldn't heal in front of her. Not yet.Minutes passed. For several minutes, I kept my eyes closed while distant voices echoed around me."Careful!""Lift him slowly!""There's too much blood…"Hands lifted me onto a stretcher before the wheels started rolling quickly across rough ground. I was taken out of the school. Sirens screamed loudly above me. I was lifted off the ground and into the ambulance. And the ambulance drove off.I kept my breathing slow and weak. Then after a moment, I opened my eyes slightly.Iris sat inside the ambulance beside me. Her brows were tightly pulled together while dried blood stained one side of her sleeve. She looked shaken badly, but she kept staring at me like she was trying to understand what exactly she saw downstairs.The moment her eyes shifted toward me, I closed mine again immediately."He's waking up," one of the paramedics said quickly."N
IRIS POV:The classroom buzzed with noise while I wrote across the board while students copied notes into their books lazily. I placed the marker down and turned toward the class."Alright," I said. "If somebody changes history, what effect would it have on the present?"Several hands raised immediately. I pointed toward one of the boys sitting close to the window."Ethan."The boy stood up slowly."It could mean this reality isn't the original one," he answered calmly. "Maybe it's just an altered reality created by somebody supreme."The classroom became quiet.I blinked once. From what I wrote on the board, I expected him to say something like "things would be different" or "we wouldn't remember what really happened." The boy couldn't have been older than ten. Yet somehow the way he spoke didn't even sound like a child. Even the words themselves felt strange coming from him.Altered reality? Somebody supreme?A small uncomfortable feeling crawled into my chest."What did you say?" I
IRIS POV:It's been over two days since the death of the Lycan lady and Aurelian has been in anguish.He's refused to eat anything ever since.“But why not talk to him?” Rowe suggested, looking uncertain.“He's been quiet since we left the mountain, I mean what more can I tell him?”“At least you t
IRIS 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
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 sai
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.’







