When science meets the supernatural, reality unravels. Dr. Evangeline Cross is a brilliant neurosurgeon—rational, skeptical, and grounded in logic. But when the estranged quadruplet siblings who once saved her life are accused of assassinating a top-level spy, her world is upended. Cassius, Lucien, Selene, and Xander are no ordinary suspects—they possess golden eyes that gleam in the dark, an uncanny sensitivity to silver, and a secret that defies biology: they are not simply werewolves, but vessels of an ancient and volatile power. Haunted by cryptic visions and pursued by The Veil—a secretive cult that bends world events through demonic manipulation—Evangeline is forced to confront the impossible. The deeper she digs, the stranger the truth becomes. Clues buried within a forgotten opera and encoded in melodies only Xander can sing begin to unravel a sorcerous legacy long thought lost. With Elias Vaughn, a ruthless prosecutor driven by a dark vendetta, closing in, Evangeline must race against time to decode an ancient musical cipher, expose a murderer cloaked in living shadow, and shatter the lies that have held history hostage. To save the siblings, she must abandon everything she believes—and embrace a reality where magic, music, and monsters intertwine.
View MoreThe city was soaked in neon and stormlight the night everything changed.
Evangeline Cross had just left St. Mercia’s Neurological Institute, her final shift as a resident finally behind her. The weight of the title, Doctor Cross, still felt foreign on her shoulders, like a coat she hadn’t broken in yet. It should’ve felt victorious; but at the moment, all she felt was exhaustion.
She walked with long, purposeful strides, black slacks clinging to her legs in the damp breeze, her gray button-down still tucked in with surgical precision. Her chin-length bob, jet-black and razor-straight, clung to the sides of her face. Moonlight caught on her mahogany skin, and her sharp gray eyes flicked upward as thunder rumbled in the distance.
At twenty-seven, she was tall, poised, and unapologetically serious - a woman sculpted by science, sleepless nights, and ambition. There was an intensity in her posture, the kind that made people move out of her way without knowing why.
She had just brought out her phone to order a cab when she saw the crash.
It was impossible to miss as sparks scattered from the twisted black car hugging a telephone pole at an unnatural angle. Flames licked at the hood, while shattered glass painted the pavement like glittering confetti from some macabre celebration. Without hesitation, adhering to the doctors' code, she sprinted toward it.
The front passenger door was crushed inward, smoke curling from the dashboard, as she pain strikingly found the door , the scent of burning oil thick in her nose. Inside, the passenger sat slumped, barely conscious as she broke his window.
“Hey!” she shouted, yanking open the rear door. “Can you move?”
He turned his head slowly, as if underwater but when their eyes met, she froze.
They were gold... not hazel nor amber, but pure gold; his irises shimmering like metal under the glow of the flames.
“I’ve got to get you out,” she said, reaching for him.
His hand clamped around her wrist with surprising strength.
“Don’t… take me to a hospital.” he wheezed.
“What? You’re bleeding. You need emergency care...”
“No hospitals.” His voice was low, almost melodic, laced with an urgency that tugged at something primitive in her.
She hesitated because the blood staining his shirt was real; but so was the strange calm in his expression, the intensity in his gaze, and then there was the rest of him.
He looked like he’d stepped out of some forgotten myth, tall and lean with sculpted features that bordered on unreal. High cheekbones, a blade-straight nose, and lips that looked more carved than grown. Long white-blond hair framed his face, tangled and damp from sweat and blood. He was beautiful, but not in any earthly way, yet unnervingly beautiful.
“Please,” he whispered again, eyes never leaving hers. “Help me. Just… not the hospital.”
Something in her cracked, and against all reason, against everything she believed, she nodded.
Soon, she reached her apartment which smelled like antiseptic and lavender - the way she preferred it, clean and controlled.
The strange man lay on her gray leather couch, his shirt peeled away to reveal a chest marred by cuts and dark bruises. She worked in silence, pressing gauze against a gash across his ribs. She had expected blood to pour but she watched in awe as the wound shrank, the skin around it knitting itself back together.
“This… isn’t possible.” She leaned closer, stunned.
He didn’t respond, his breathing had evened out now, but his brows were furrowed like someone trapped in a bad dream.
Her steel-gray eyes studied him under the warm halo of her lamp.
'This was... wrong!' she mentally screamed. 'No human healed that fast. Not even models or actors. This was definitely not natural.'
She traced the edge of the gauze with her fingers. His skin felt warm... too warm. His heartbeat was steady but faintly irregular. She made a mental note of everything: accelerated healing, unnatural temperature, physical perfection, golden irises.
This surely was not normal.
She then sank into her armchair and rested her temple against her knuckles, her wrist still sore from where he had grabbed her.
“What are you?” she murmured to the silence, as the clock ticked toward midnight.
The moonlight slipped through the blinds in pale ribbons, sliding across the floor until it bathed his body in silver. Evangeline hadn’t taken her eyes off him in nearly an hour. She’d meant to call someone... anyone. But something told her to wait, something instinctual.
And, then he finally moved.
He didn’t jolt awake or stir like a man disturbed. He simply opened his eyes.
The gold in them was brighter now like liquid fire.
“You shouldn’t be here yet,” he said softly, voice cracking like old wood.
“Yet?” She stood. “Who are you?”He didn’t answer. Instead, he sat up slowly, the muscles in his abdomen tightening beneath his skin like he’d never been injured at all.
“You need to leave, Evangeline.”
Her heart froze. “How do you know my name?”
He blinked once, and then, too fast for her to react, he lunged at her.
Pain shot through her body as his mouth clamped around her wrist. His fangs - yes fangs - sank into her skin. She screamed, twisting and trying to free herself, but he held her with impossible strength. Hot venom rushed into her veins, burning like acid and ice at once.
Her then knees gave out as she collapsed to the floor, gasping as her vision began to blur.
He was above her now, crouched. His face twisted in agony.
“I’m sorry,” he whispered. “It wasn’t supposed to be like this.”
“W-what did you do to me?” she gasped, voice barely a whisper.
He didn’t answer with words.
His bones then began to crack at the final stroke of midnight, the sound of muscles tearing and reforming soon filled the room. Bleach white gur then exploded across his body as his limbs elongated and reconfigured. His mouth elongated into a snout, his eyes still glowing gold as his human frame vanished into the shape of a massive white wolf.
Seven feet tall at the shoulder, he was still luminous and ethereal.
He stepped toward her on silent paws, the floor creaking under his weight.
Through the haze in her mind, she heard one final phrase - not spoken aloud, but pressed into her consciousness like a branded promise:
“Wait for me.”
And then, the world went black.
The world soon shifted again - not with a sound, but with a silence so heavy it broke the air.They found themselves stepping into a clearing where time had collapsed, a space caught between breath and bruise. Trees rose like fangs around them—black bark slick with memory, their branches whispering with tongues made of ash. The earth beneath was soft with rot, pulsing faintly, as though mourning what it once grew, and Cassius stood at the center.He was shirtless, bruised, bleeding but standing.Before him was himself.. or what wore his face.The doppelgänger was identical in form, but wrong in presence - its eyes burning with something Cassius had never allowed himself to name. Its mouth twisted in a cruel approximation of his calm expression, stretched too wide, too still. Its shadow moved independently, coiling like smoke, its edges serrated with memory-shards.They circled each other like wolves measuring breath, not movement.“You’re not me.” Cassius’s voice was quiet, but firm.
The next day,The cursed road led them to a hall whispered with the memories of battles that never happened.They entered through a corridor of statues - each one depicting Selene, but twisted through impossible angles, some screaming silently, others kneeling in triumph. No two were the same; their faces flickered subtly as the group passed, as though watching through the fog of time.At the end of that haunted procession, the throne awaited.It stood high above the chamber on a dais of fused bone and petrified flesh, ringed in the remnants of broken blades and snapped spears. The floor beneath their feet pulsed faintly, like the beat of something half-dead, half-dreaming. The light here was wrong - dim but searing, as if the shadows themselves had burned out.Selene sat unmoving at the top of the dais, regal and silent, her body draped in a cloak of feathers blacker than void. The bones beneath her throne had been fused into art - ribcages interlocked like roses, femurs arching up
Evangeline jolted awake with her body already halfway to standing, her breath caught in a scream that refused to leave her throat. For a moment, she couldn’t tell where she was, or if she had ever truly left the dream. Her hands clawed at the air, but the air did not hold. It slipped through her fingers like breathless silk, ungraspable, unnatural. Her heart thundered so violently she thought the sound might rip through the seams of her ribs.The fire Silas had conjured was gone. Its ashes remained, scattered across the floor in a swirling pattern that reminded Evangeline of insect wings and broken music. The walls around them had peeled inward. Once a fragile shelter, the room now stood flayed - its paper-thin surfaces curling at the edges like burnt flesh, revealing cracks in space through which the Unplace bled. Time itself seemed to recoil from the moment, pulling back like a wound resisting sutures.Around her, the others stirred, each of them bearing the same weight in their e
The wind tore across the Unplace, shrieking with the pitch of wolves being skinned alive -raw, flayed agony that filled the air with sound too sharp for ears to bear. It didn’t blow from any single direction. It surged from everywhere, as if the world itself were exhaling its final breath. With each gust, the fabric of this place shifted, the ground flickering between polished bone, rusted mirrors, and cracked obsidian that reflected nothing.Evangeline staggered forward, her breath coming in short, ragged bursts, her eyes narrow against the onslaught. The world stank of iron and ozone, and beneath that - something older, more intimate. The scent of forgotten blood and the tang of stolen memory. Her boots struck a surface that was not earth, not stone, but something smooth and chill—like skin that had long since turned cold. Every step echoed like a heartbeat left behind.To her left, Emma muttered under her breath, her voice thin and failing. The incantations Evangeline taught her
The Veil shimmered like torn glass dipped in bloodlight.It wasn’t a doorway. It was a fracture.And it pulsed.Each beat sent tremors through the Hollow Refuge, shaking dust from the ceiling and rippling cracks through the bone-forged floor. The chains still dangling from the rafters began to twitch, like dead things stirred by memory.Evangeline stood at the edge of the tear, windless and weightless, the satchel empty at her hip.The Heart of Dracula now hovered above Virex’s hand, suspended in a cocoon of violet spellfire. It rotated slowly, dripping motes of blood-magic like falling stars.“Is this stable?” Thorne asked, eyes narrowed. “Doesn’t look stable.”“It’s not,” Virex replied calmly. “The Veil is a wound. The more you press, the more it bleeds.”Silas muttered a curse and paced backward, glaring at the rift.“That thing’s not a gate. That’s a trap dressed as a miracle.”“It’s both,” Emma said, sigils already forming across her forearms. “But there’s no other way.”Rhea cro
They reached the Hollow Refuge just after nightfall.No wind stirred. No stars showed. The forest felt trapped in a breath that would never exhale. Branches arched above them like ribcages. The moss underfoot was dark and wet, pulsing faintly with heartbeat rhythms that didn’t belong to any of them.“Feels like the trees are listening.” Silas muttered, with a curse. “They are,” Marrow said. “This place doesn’t forget.”The forest gave way to a cliffside, cracked open by something ancient. A stone maw yawned wide beneath it, half-buried in roots, sealed by a rusted gate etched in bone-white sigils.Evangeline stepped forward, rune-light glowing from her fingertips but she didn’t touch the gate. “We carry the Heart.” She whispered.The sigils flared, then vanished like smoke and the gate peeled open without a sound.They descended in silence, weapons drawn, the air growing colder with each step. The walls were carved with old songs—lycan runes tangled with vampire chords, musical nota
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