Mag-log inNORAElara smiled warmly, pausing her scrubbing. "Lycan pups are strong. It survived the infection. You are past the danger zone now."Looking down at the dark water swirling around my knees, a heavy wave of reality crashed directly over my head. The baby was real. It was growing. In a few months, I was going to bring a child into this violent, messy world. And I was completely alone."Do you ever think about going back?" Elara asked quietly, ringing out a wet shirt."To Blackcrest?" I shook my head immediately. "Never. They would lock me in a cage and take the baby the second it was born.""What about the father?" She pushed gently. "Kael said you were mumbling about a King while you were in the ice bath. Did you love him?"The question felt like a physical punch to my throat.Images of Kai flashed violently through my mind. His golden eyes burning with anger. His heavy hands pressing me against the library wall. The way his voice sounded when he promised he would never let anything
KAIBefore I could tell her to pack her bags and get the fuck out of my territory, the heavy oak doors at the end of the dining hall violently crashed open.Wood splintered against the stone walls with a deafening bang.Jerking my head toward the entrance, General Gideon marched into the room. He completely ignored the two enforcers yelling at him to stop from the hallway. Gideon was fully dressed in his tactical gear. His chest heaved with heavy pants, and thick sweat dripped down his forehead."Alpha!" Gideon barked, closing the distance to the table in long, hurried strides."What the hell is this?" Chloe shrieked, glaring at the General. "We are in the middle of a private dinner! You cannot just barge in here!"Ignoring her entirely, Gideon didn't even glance in Chloe's direction. He stopped right beside my chair, his eyes wide and frantic."Gideon," I sighed, rubbing the bridge of my nose in frustration. "This better be a state emergency. The council is already breathing down my
KAIStraight across from me sat Chloe, the high-ranking daughter of a neighboring Alpha. Dressed in a sleek crimson gown that left very little to the imagination, she was objectively beautiful. She had perfect blonde hair, sharp cheekbones, and the confident, entitled posture of a woman raised to rule.On paper, she was the perfect choice for a Luna.In reality, looking at her made me feel absolutely nothing."You haven't touched your wine, Kai," Chloe observed, swirling the dark red liquid in her expensive crystal glass. She offered a coy, practiced smile. "Is it not to your liking? My father sent this vintage specifically for tonight.""It's fine," I replied smoothly, offering a polite, mechanical nod. "I just don't have much of a thirst tonight.""That is a shame," she purred, taking a slow sip while keeping her dark eyes locked on mine. "A man with your responsibilities should learn how to relax. You carry the weight of the entire territory on your shoulders."Leaning back into my
CHAPTER 86NORAThe sweat clung to my forehead like a second skin, freezing the second it hit the bitter air of the cabin.Waking up felt exactly like clawing my way out of a shallow grave. Three days had vanished into an absolute, suffocating void since Elara stitched my leg. Blinking against the dim morning light filtering through the window, my gaze drifted down. Thick white gauze wrapped around my calf. It was soaked through with sickly yellow fluid and dark blood, radiating a violent, blistering heat.But the leg was nothing compared to my stomach.A sharp, twisting cramp ripped through my abdomen. Gasping loudly, I doubled over on the hard mattress. It felt like crushed glass shredding my insides. My fragile human body simply couldn't handle the rapid, aggressive growth of a Lycan pup. The hybrid baby was draining every single ounce of my life force just to survive the trauma of the shadow beast attack."Elara!" A deep, panicked shout rattled the wooden walls of the cabin.Kael
THIRD PERSON POV Standing in the central security room, the air was incredibly thick and heavy. General Gideon typed rapidly on the main console keyboard. Kai stood directly behind him, his arms crossed tightly over his chest, refusing to blink. Halil paced near the concrete wall."The engineering team just restored the localized server data from last night," Gideon announced, his voice tight. "I am pulling up the camera feeds for sector twelve.""Play it," Kai commanded harshly.The large flat-screen monitor flickered to life. The footage was grainy, shot in black-and-white night vision.On the screen, a rusted iron grate covering a drainage pipe violently kicked open. Nora spilled out into the snow. She looked exhausted, her clothes covered in thick mud.Watching her scramble to her feet, Kai’s jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached.She didn't look like a terrified hostage. She looked determined. She touched her stomach briefly, whispered something to the empty air, and started runn
THIRD PERSON’S POV "I am completely freezing my ass off," Carter muttered, pulling his thermal collar up over his chin. "Why are we out here so early? My shift wasn't supposed to start until noon.""Because the Alpha is losing his damn mind," Hayes replied, kicking a rock out of his path. "That blackout last night sent the entire Packhouse into a panic. Halil wants every single inch of the perimeter swept before breakfast."Briggs came to a sudden halt, and held up a gloved hand."Shut up," Briggs ordered, his voice dropping into a tense whisper."What is it?" Carter asked, immediately raising his rifle."Do you smell that?" Briggs sniffed the freezing air, his Lycan senses flaring. "Smells like raw copper. And... shit. It smells like a slaughterhouse."Moving cautiously past a cluster of thick bushes, the three guards stepped into a small clearing.Carter froze dead in his tracks. His stomach violently heaved."Goddess above," Hayes choked out, taking a staggering step backward.The
NORA“Are you there?”“Hmm?”“Can you hear me? Nora… Nora.”I felt like crap.Waking up, the harsh smell of bleach and rubbing alcohol immediately assaulted my nose.Bright fluorescent lights blinded me for a second. Blinking rapidly, I tried to turn my head, but a sharp spike of pain shot straight
NORA’S POV. I groaned, struggling to pry my eyes open. “Our Luna decided to grace us with her consciousness.” A stern voice cut across the room. I made to sit up, but all my bones felt like they were crushed under the weight of a boulder. My eyes lingered around the room. It wasn’t like my room i
AIDEN’S POV I did the right thing. I was sure of it. Nora was no good. She couldn’t even bear me a pup, not even a female. Her body was frail, and clearly cannot carry my seed. I tightened my grip around my pen, as I scribbled some words onto the document, my heart in a completely different place
KAI’S POV You’ve got to be kidding me. A stray. A fucking stray that had tinges of rejection all over her. To make it worse, she was wolfless. My eyes hovered all over her, and my heart boiled with a mixture of disgust. Why on earth would the moon goddess think she could link us to a stray as a s







