MasukTo my amazing readers, I want to sincerely thank everyone who gave my book a chance. Your support, comments and engagement truly mean alot to me. Unfortunately, due to some personal reasons, I'II be taking a short break from updating this book here. But it won't be for long. I'II be back to continue updates in three weeks.Thank you guys. I'II see you all again on May 29th
JACKSON’S POV“The mate bond.” He looked at me with something like desperate hope. “You’re bonded to him. You should be able to feel where he is, even if I can’t. But you’d have to be closer. Much closer. And even then—”“Then take me to the lycan realm.” I grabbed his arm. “Take me to where the barriers are thinnest, where she would have crossed over. We’ll start there. We’ll search. We’ll do whatever it takes.”“Jackson, this is dangerous. Seraphina is one of the most powerful warriors in our realm. She could kill you without even trying—”“I don’t care!” I was shouting now, hysterical. “I don’t care if it’s dangerous! I don’t care if I might die! She has Frost and I’m not going to just sit here in my bedroom while—while—”My voice broke completely.Kieran stepped forward and gripped my shoulders, forcing me to look at him. “Listen to me. If we do this, there’s no going back. Your parents will know you’re gone. The authorities might get involved. And if we find Seraphina, if we end
JACKSON’S POVThe words hit me like a slap in the face. The room tilted sideways. My knees buckled and I had to grab onto my desk to stay upright.“What?” The word came out strangled. “What do you mean, taken? How—when—” I couldn’t even bring myself to formulate a proper sentence. My mind kept snagging on the sentence like a hook caught in fabric.Taken. Taken.It didn’t feel real. None of it felt real. I stood there with my mouth open and nothing else coming out.“I don’t know,” Kieran said, his voice shaky. He ran a trembling hand through his hair, pacing the small space between my bed and the door. “I told him the barriers were secure. I told him no one had crossed over. I was so certain, but she must’ve found a way. She must be more powerful than I anticipated, to phase through. And now she has him, and I don’t—I don’t know where they are or what she’s doing to him, or—”My heart dropped into my stomach. At first, I didn’t want to believe him—I tried to convince myself I was heari
FROST’S POVI launched ice shards at her, an outburst meant to force her back, but she moved through them like it was nothing, her whip deflecting what she couldn’t dodge.Each crack of force against ice sent shivers down my spine.We fought across the overlook, neither of us giving way easily. My ice met her whip again and again, the sound of our combat echoing off the surrounding area.She was faster, more skilled, but I was stronger here—this was the human realm, and unlike her I’d practiced and mastered how this plane worked.This was my strength and that was her weakness.I managed to catch her whip in a trail of ice, yanking hard. She let go rather than be pulled off balance, and for a moment we faced each other empty-handed.Then she smiled and pulled two daggers from somewhere in her minimal armor.Of course she had backup weapons.“Certainly you didn’t think I came unprepared?”The fight became more brutal. More desperate. She drove me back from the overlook, down the trail,
FROST POV“What’s this?” Seraphina said as she slowly approached me. “The great Winter’s Crest Alpha suddenly can’t speak? What happened to all that mouth you had back then?”I was still a frozen mess.Despite her being only a few feet away, it felt like miles. My vision swam, my breath came in shallow gasps, and my body and mind refused to believe what was right in front of me—even though she was undeniably here.The sound of my heartbeat pounded in my ears, so loud I was certain even she could hear it.“Unlike you, who ran away like a coward… I stayed by my family and my pack. And because of them, I will fight for my honor.”“I didn’t run away,” I found myself saying, despite how shaken I still was.My voice came out rougher than I expected, dread cutting through the fear. “I was banished. Exiled. Thrown away like garbage because I told the truth. I just wanted my pack and my family to accept me for who I was—not who they expected me to be.”“Silence!” Seraphina’s voice cracked like
JACKSON’S POVMy room was exactly as I’d left it—untouched, organized to a T, every surface carefully curated to look like the room of the perfect son.Trophies from academic competitions. Photos from family vacations where I was smiling but never quite looked happy. Books I’d never chosen myself arranged alphabetically on shelves.It was like a museum exhibit.A shrine to someone who’d never really existed.I closed the door behind me and finally let the tears come, spilling down in waves. I muffled my sobs with my hand as I slid to the floor, my back hitting the wall. Thoughts crashed through my mind as my vision blurred.What was I going to do?What the hell was I going to do?!My parents weren’t joking around. They were serious—dead serious. I wasn’t going back to school, and I sure as hell wasn’t going back to my apartment.They were going to keep me here, trapped until I either break or found a way to escape.And until then, I couldn’t see Frost or Maya or anyone from the life I
THIRD PERSON POVJackson stood in the middle of his living room, his chest heaving back and forth in ragged movements. The initial fury had cleared, and he found himself surrounded by utter destruction.The coffee table was overturned, books scattered across the hardwood.The vase that had held Fro
THIRD PERSON POVFrost stood outside the apartment building, the cold night air biting at his skin—though he barely felt it.The temperature didn’t bother him at all. It never did.But the emptiness in his chest, the way his heart felt like it had been ripped out and left bleeding on Jackson’s livi
FROST POVBefore I could even think, I pulled Maya into a hug. I felt her body go stiff but after a couple seconds, she collapsed against me as she sobbed into my chest.I lowered my forehead and pressed it against her head as I held her close, feeling
FROST POVMy breath caught as she lurked closer, my table cloth practically fell from my hands.“Maya, I—” I tried to speak, but she cut me off almost immediately.“No! Don’t you dare ‘Maya’ me right now!” Her eyes were blazing with fury and I gulped down the bulge that had formed in my throat.Thi







