LOGIN“She was a royal,” Liora said. “High-born vampire. House Vonn. She was exiled for consorting with a werewolf. Not just consorting, bonding. And not just any werewolf.”My eyes met hers. “An Alpha.”Liora didn’t nod, but her silence confirmed it.“Do we know who?”“There are three unsealed Alpha regi
The chapel was colder than I remembered. The old stone walls held the night air like grief; damp, heavy, and quietly unforgiving. My boots echoed on the marble floor as I followed the Elder through the corridor, passing locked rooms and dormant altars, surrounded by air that smelled like ash, candle
“It’s not enough to finish one,” Nathan replied. “If we act now, they’ll shift the rest and disappear before the council can review the footage. If we wait too long, they’ll bury it all.”So we waited. It was excruciating.Security protocol tightened again. Every badge was reissued, every name re-ve
We hadn’t spoken in any way that mattered. Not about the truth, not about what it meant, and certainly not about what came next. Richard had accepted the council’s decision to name me joint commander without protest or hesitation, but he hadn’t looked at me, truly looked at me, since the day I found
Simon flipped the page.“Wolves developed the Howl Array—a sonic weapon that destabilized vampire neural networks. It caused disorientation, memory loss, even seizures. The vampires responded by creating suppression serums that disrupted bonding hormones and short-circuited Alpha scent recognition.
I went back to my apartment. Mine. The one with the uneven stovetop burner and the coat rack I never hung right. The one I hadn’t stepped foot in since long before my heat, before I started sleeping in someone else’s bed and calling it safety. It felt strange walking back in like nothing had changed







