ログインAuthor’s POVOne month later.The ceremonial hall stood bathed in sunlight. Silver banners hung from the towering stone walls while hundreds of wolves filled every available seat inside the pack grounds. The atmosphere buzzed with excitement, anticipation and something far more precious.Joy. Real joy and not one forced, manufactured or built upon lies.Today felt nothing like the last ceremony held within these walls. There was no tension lingering beneath the celebration. No secrets waiting to explode. No innocent victim standing unknowingly at the edge of destruction.Only peace, only family and only love.Near the entrance, Lysera adjusted the sleeping baby nestled carefully against her chest before exhaling softly. Her son remained completely unbothered by the enormous gathering surrounding him. The child slept peacefully beneath a small blue blanket despite the noise filling the hall.Henry swore the boy inherited that calm from her.Lysera suspected otherwise. The child had alr
Author’s POV“Push, Lysera!”Apollo’s voice cut sharply through the room as another contraction tore through her body. Lysera screamed.The sound echoed throughout the entire estate, loud enough that servants waiting outside the bedroom visibly flinched.Inside, chaos had completely taken over. Apollo looked one step away from losing his mind. Three healer assistants rushed around carrying hot water, clean cloths and medicinal herbs while the healer barked instructions fast enough to make everyone scramble.And somehow, despite not being in labor himself, Henry was creating almost as much trouble as Lysera.“Is she supposed to be screaming like that?” he demanded anxiously.“Yes,” Apollo snapped.“She looks like she’s dying.”“She is giving birth.”“Shouldn’t you be doing something?”Apollo slowly turned toward him. “Alpha.”He’s been warned multiple times already. Henry immediately fell silent, for approximately five seconds.Then another contraction hit. Henry was at Lysera’s side
Author’s POVSomething inside Lysera changed after the prison visit.Henry noticed it almost immediately. She did not suddenly become louder or reckless or endlessly cheerful. Lysera would probably always carry some quietness inside her after everything she survived.But she seemed lighter now and like some invisible weight had finally loosened from around her throat. The nightmares stopped first. For weeks, Henry had grown used to waking in the middle of the night whenever Lysera shifted restlessly beside him. Sometimes she whimpered softly in her sleep. Other nights she woke up gasping quietly before forcing herself to calm down.After the prison visit, it stopped. Now when Henry woke during the night, he usually found her sleeping peacefully curled against his chest while one of his hands rested protectively over her stomach.Their son. The realization still overwhelmed him every single time.One evening, Henry found Lysera standing near the nursery doorway quietly staring inside.
LyseraI wanted to see my parents abs Isyra and for the life of me, I cannot understand why.Even while the carriage rolled slowly toward the eastern prison grounds, part of me still questioned the decision. I had spent weeks convincing myself I never wanted to lay eyes on my family again after their arrest. I thought leaving them behind would be enough closure.Apparently, it wasn’t.Henry sat beside me quietly throughout the journey, though tension radiated visibly from him. His hand remained wrapped around mine almost the entire time like he was still debating whether he should turn the carriage around and drag me back home instead.“You don’t have to do this,” he said again quietly.I looked out the carriage window toward the distant prison walls rising against the gray sky. “I know.”“Then why come?”The question lingered heavily between us. Truthfully, I did not fully know myself. Maybe I needed to see them broken to finally understand I survived them. Maybe some wounded part of
LyseraThe next evening, Henry came back. The moment the servants announced his arrival, my pulse immediately lost all sense of dignity. I spent the next few seconds pretending to rearrange shelves of books inside the sitting room before finally hearing his footsteps approaching down the hallway. The bond stirred instantly beneath my skin, warm and restless and far too aware of him.Then Henry stepped into the room and stopped. For a second, neither of us spoke. The memory of last night still lingered heavily between us. The truth, the kiss and the way everything between us had shifted so completely that it almost felt fragile now.Henry looked exhausted and like he had spent the entire night replaying every moment between us exactly the same way I had.His green eyes settled on me carefully. “You look well rested.”I almost laughed because I knew what I looked like. I didn’t look well rested at all. “I barely slept.”A faint huff escaped him. “Good. At least I wasn’t suffering alone
LyseraAfter Henry left, I lay sprawled dramatically across my bed for several long minutes staring at the ceiling while my heart continued beating far too fast inside my chest.I kissed Henry. Actually kissed him.A muffled groan escaped me before I buried my burning face deeper into the pillows. How did I suddenly become bold enough to do that? One minute we were emotionally unraveling over the realization that he was the father of my child and the next minute I was standing on my tiptoes kissing him like some shameless woman inside a romance novel.My wolf sounded deeply pleased with herself. She actually pushed me to do that. “You’re welcome.”“Traitor,” I muttered weakly into the pillow.Still, beneath the embarrassment and nerves twisting wildly inside me, something softer lingered too. Warmth. Because Henry kissed my forehead first.Not possessively. Not hungrily. Tenderly. Like I was something precious.The memory alone made my stomach flutter all over again.I rolled onto my
LyseraFor a long while after I fell silent, Healer Apollo said nothing.The room felt strangely small then, as though the walls had crept closer while I was talking. The quiet pressed against my ears until I almost wished he would interrupt me, accuse me of lying, do something to break the tension
LyseraI told him everything.Once I started, I couldn’t stop. It poured out of me like something that had been dammed up for years, pressing against my ribs, choking me from the inside. My voice didn’t shake the way I expected it to. It was flat in places, sharp in others, stripped of the softness
LyseraI lay on my back, staring at the pale blue ceiling, my eyes fixed on a single dark spot near the corner where a spider was patiently building its web.It moved with slow, deliberate care—stretching, anchoring, retreating, returning again—its tiny body a quiet rhythm against the stillness of
Lysera The air became charged as Henry’s anger flooded the room, raw and undeniable, until I could taste it on my tongue. Sweat broke out along my spine. My hands began to shake, the cutlery rattling faintly against the plate as his presence bore down on everyone In the great living room. No matt







