INICIAR SESIÓNLILA’S POV“Lila… don’t.”Nathan’s voice broke through the silence but it didn’t reach me the way it used to.It echoed.Distant.Like a memory fading at the edges.I stood at the center of the clearing, hand still raised.And they stood with me.All of them.The corrupted mates.Perfectly still. Perfectly quiet.Perfectly mine.“Stand down,” Ethan ordered sharply, stepping forward, Alpha authority rolling off him in waves.It hit the air like thunder.Powerful.Commanding.Unbreakable.Nothing happened.The corrupted mates didn’t even flinch.Ethan’s expression darkened.“They’re not responding to you anymore,” Davian said quietly.“No,” I answered before anyone else could.My voice was calm.Too calm.“They respond to me now.”Silence.Heavy.Unforgiving.Marcus took a step forward, his jaw clenched, fury burning in his eyes. “Then call them off.”I tilted my head slightly.“Why?”The question hit harder than any attack.“Because they’re not your weapons,” he snapped.“They’re not y
LILA’S POVKneel.The command wasn’t spoken out loud.It didn’t need to be.It pulsed through the air like a heartbeat that didn’t belong to meand yet……it did.The corrupted mates dropped to their knees all at once.Thirty… forty… I didn’t even know anymore.Every single one of them bowed their heads not in defeat.In obedience.My breath hitched.“No…” I whispered.But the word felt weak.Distant.Like it didn’t belong to me either.Because deep inside…Something answered.Yes.The power inside me surged again—dark and golden energy twisting together violently, feeding off each other, growing stronger with every second.“Lila…”Nathan’s voice trembled beside me.I turned slowly.And the moment our eyes metSomething shifted.His golden aura flickered.Dimmed.Like my presence alone was draining him.Fear flashed across his face.Not fear of me.Fear for me.That made something inside me tighten.Crack.For a secondI felt myself again.“Don’t come closer,” I said hoarsely.But even
LILA’S POVThe night felt wrong.Not quiet. Not peaceful.Wrong.The kind of wrong that crawled beneath your skin and whispered that something irreversible was coming.I stood at the center of the clearing, my wings half-unfurled, golden energy flickering weakly around me. The air was heavy too heavy like the world itself was holding its breath.Around me, the pack slept in scattered groups, exhaustion finally claiming them after days of relentless tension. But even in sleep, they weren’t at peace. I could feel it.Every heartbeat.Every flicker of fear.Every thread of fragile hope.All of it… tied to me.And it was starting to tear me apart.Nathan stepped quietly beside me, his presence warm but strained. “You haven’t slept,” he murmured.I didn’t look at him. “Neither have you.”A pause.Then softer, almost broken“I’m trying not to.”That made my chest ache.I turned slightly, finally meeting his eyes. The golden light in them was dimmer than before, weighed down by something dee
LILA’S POVIt was burning.Noconsuming.My body arched off the ground as something inside me ripped through every vein, every nerve, every piece of me that still felt like mine. The pain wasn’t just physical it was deeper than that.It felt like something was trying to rewrite me from the inside out.“LILA!”Voices crashed around me, distant and distorted, like I was underwater.My vision flickered.Gold.Darkness.GoldThen red.I gasped, choking on air that felt too thick, too heavy, like even breathing had become a battle I was losing.“Get back!” Ethan’s voice roared.“No!” NathanNathan.The sound of his voice cut through everything.My body jerked violently as I tried to focus, tried to hold onto that sound, that one anchor in the chaos tearing me apart.“Nathan…” I whispered, my voice barely mine.I could feel him close.Alive.Breathing.Relief should have come.But it didn’t.Because something else came with it.Hunger.My stomach twisted violently as a new sensation slammed
LILA’S POVNo.No, no, noThis wasn’t happening.Not again.Not him.“Nathan…”My voice broke as I cradled his face, my hands trembling so badly I could barely hold him. His skin was already cooling beneath my touch, his golden aura once so steady, so warm completely gone.The world around me blurred.Voices shouted.Feet pounded against the earth.But all I could hear…Was the silence inside him.“Breathe,” I whispered desperately, pressing my glowing hands harder against his chest. “Come on… come on, Nathan, please”Nothing.A sob clawed its way out of my throat.“I said breathe!”My power surged violently, golden light spilling from my hands, pouring into him in frantic waves. I pushed harder, ignoring the burn in my veins, ignoring the way my vision flickered.“Lila” Callum’s voice cut in, urgent. “You’re draining yourself”“I don’t care!” I snapped, my voice breaking apart.I couldn’t lose him.I couldn’t.“Move,” Thea’s sharp voice cut through the chaos as she dropped beside me.
LILA’S POVFor a moment…No one moved.No one breathed.The entire forest seemed to freeze under the weight of her presence.My sister stood at the edge of the clearing like a nightmare made real red eyes glowing, shadows coiling around her body like living things. Behind her, the darkness shifted, dozens of figures stepping forward slowly, their forms half-seen, half-swallowed by shadow.And then I felt it.Not fear.Not exactly.Something worse.Recognition.Power calling to power.My chest tightened as something deep inside me stirred something ancient, something that responded to her.No.I clenched my fists, forcing it down.She is not me.“Lila…” Nathan’s voice came from behind me, low, tense. “What… what is that?”I swallowed, my throat dry.“My sister,” I said.The words felt wrong in my mouth.Too small for what she had become.A ripple went through the pack.Confusion.Shock.Fear.Marcus stepped forward slightly, his body angling protectively in front of a group of younger m
LILA’S POVI didn’t sleep.Even when the camp quieted, when the wounded were tended, when the last patrols rotated out and the forest settled into a tense, unnatural silence… I couldn’t close my eyes.Every time I tried, I saw him.That calm expression.That certainty.That power.Ryker hadn’t atta
LILA’S POVThe victory should have felt like relief.It should have felt like triumph.But as the last echoes of battle faded and the forest slowly returned to life, something inside me refused to settle.Because Ryker hadn’t come.I stood in the clearing long after the others began to disperse, my
LILA’S POVThe morning air was crisp, carrying the faint scent of pine and earth, but beneath it, tension simmered. Every rustle in the underbrush, every distant birdcall felt amplified, a reminder that Ryker’s shadow still lingered just beyond our territory. The forest around our pack had grown qu
LILA’S POVThe forest never felt more alive and more dangerous than that morning. Every rustle of leaves, every snap of a branch, seemed amplified, a whispered warning. I walked the ridge above our camp, wings folded lightly, golden aura flickering as if sensing the tension vibrating through the tr







