Mag-log in~Lucian The deep silence within me did the counting of how many days that had passed without seeing or feeling Nadia beside me. It stretched through the halls, settled into the walls, lingered in every corner of the pack house like something that refused to leave. Like something that had been taken… and left a hollow behind. I stood in the middle of my room for a moment, unmoving. The loose shirt on my body hung carelessly, barely noticeable against my skin. Nothing felt right anymore. Not the air. Not the space. Not even myself. I dragged a slow breath in and turned, walking out of the room without thinking too much about where I was going. My feet already knew. The home bar. Of course. My steps were steady, but everything around me felt distant, like I was walking through a place I used to know but no longer belonged to. I stepped inside and paused. Nothing had changed. The glasses were still arranged neatly. The bottles stood exactly where they always had. The chair… the
~LucianWatching her pack her clothes, my heart began to race.Was she really leaving? Was she going to walk out of my life and never return? Was she going to forget everything we had so easily… everything we shared?I tried to explain it to her, but she was too angry to listen. How else could I make her understand that I didn’t kill her mother out of my own will?I had trusted Ara when she was alive. I respected her. I stood against the suggestion of her execution, but my father saw that as weakness. He used it against me. He made me sign the death warrant as a way to harden me, to prepare me for rulership after him.After the execution, Nadia had been hidden away in her playhouse, trembling in fear as the pack enforcers surrounded her.I fought them all just to keep her safe. To keep her close. Even my father could not stop me at that time.And now…Now she was leaving anyway.As I watched her gather her things, my fists curled instinctively. In that moment, I couldn’t tell if it
~LucianIt didn’t feel real.The words were still echoing in the air, still hanging there like something that hadn’t quite settled into place, and yet they had already torn through me completely.Ara Monero.My mother.He had said her name so easily. So plainly. Like it wasn’t the name of a woman who had held me, who had loved me, who had been taken away from me without mercy.My chest tightened, the air around me grew heavier with every second that passed. I couldn’t move. Couldn’t think. Couldn’t even breathe properly as the truth wrapped itself around me, squeezing tighter and tighter until it felt like there was nothing left inside me to hold on to.He killed my parents Everything I had lost, everything I had been forced to live without, everything I had tried so hard to bury just to survive…He had been the one all along and I had been standing in the same room with him all this time.My fingers trembled at my sides, my vision blurring slightly as the weight of it pressed down o
~Lucian A pin-drop silence fell across the room as rage burned through me.I took a chilling step forward, and everyone adjusted instinctively. They would have rushed out of the room at that exact moment if they weren’t frozen in the intensity of everything unfolding before them.I stepped closer to Damian and the seer. The seer didn’t tremble like the rest of the crowd. He stood unshaken, because he already knew I wasn’t coming for him…but for the old traitor sitting quietly in the wheelchair.My voice dropped. “Cancel the spell now,” I said to the seer before tilting my head toward Damian. “I need to hear him say this in his right state of mind.”The seer obeyed quickly, repeating the same process with the leaf and white dust.Damian jerked like he just woke up from a deep trance.The old man looked around, all eyes on him. He immediately looked up at Malakai, who had so much fear in his eyes, already sweating even before the attention could shift fully onto him.At that point, he
~Lucian I had seen unrest before.I had stood in rooms where voices rose, where accusations were thrown without restraint, where tension coiled so tightly it threatened to snap at any moment. I knew what chaos looked like. I knew how quickly control could be lost when fear and uncertainty spread through a pack.But this was different. Because this time, I wasn’t stepping in to control it. I was watching it unfold silently. Deliberately.From the moment Aiden began speaking, I had said nothing. I hadn’t interrupted, hadn’t questioned, hadn’t even shifted from where I sat. My gaze remained fixed on him, steady and unreadable, while every word he spoke settled into the room…and into me.At first, it had been just words and observations. Concerns that could have been dismissed if they lacked weight.As he spoke, laying everything out piece by piece, I found myself following the trail he had built, step by step, without resistance. The patterns he described were not unfamiliar to me. I ha
~Nadia The silence that followed Aiden’s final words did not feel natural.It pressed in from every side, thick and unmoving, as though the entire hall had been forced into stillness against its will. No one spoke. No one shifted. Even the air itself seemed to hold its breath.I stood by the corner, my fingers curled tightly against my palm, my gaze fixed ahead though my thoughts refused to stay steady. Aiden’s voice still echoed in my mind, each word replaying with a weight that refused to settle.Elder Damian.A traitor.The accusation alone had been enough to shake the room, but now… now something else was coming.Something final. Something that would either shatter everything…Or prove nothing at all.Aiden moved first.I watched him step aside slightly, his posture calm, controlled, as his gaze turned toward the man he had brought with him.The seer nodded and moved forward.A quiet shift moved through the crowd as attention followed, unease rippling beneath the surface of the si
~Nadia The pack had been unusually quiet over the past few days. No one spoke openly about what had happened in the council hall. No one dared to question it, not even in passing conversation where words could easily be dismissed. Lucian had made his position clear, and that alone was enough to ke
~Nadia He held my chin and before I could take a breath, his lips pressed against mine. For a second…Nothing.No thought. No breath. No world.Just impact.My body froze completely, every muscle locking as if I had been struck instead of kissed. My eyes remained open for that brief, disoriented mo
~Lucian I sat in my wing, fingers curled around the thorough patrol reports. Eastern border reinforced. Northern ridge scouts doubled. No unusual scent trails detected near Moonstone Hill. I read each line carefully, not because I doubted Rowan’s efficiency, but because discipline begins at the t
~Lucian The noise didn’t fade, it pressed in.Low voices. Uneasy shifts. The weight of eyes that refused to look away but dared not stare too long.I stood where I was, Nadia beside me, her hand still on mine.I didn’t tighten my hold. I didn’t loosen it either. It was just enough for her to feel







