INICIAR SESIÓNNyx’s POVI stood in the middle of the clearing, cloak half-on, the night air cold against my bare skin. My legs still felt shaky from the run, from the shift, from him. Kayden was on his feet now, looking at me like I’d just slapped him across the face. I probably had, in a way.I pulled the cloak tighter around myself and pulled out the small communicator from the hidden pocket. Pressed the button.“Bring the car. North ridge clearing. Now.”The voice on the other end answered quick. “On the way, Alpha.”I didn’t look at Kayden while we waited. Couldn’t. If I looked, I’d see the confusion in his eyes. The hurt. The want that hadn’t faded even after everything we just did.The black SUV rolled up ten minutes later. Headlights cut through the trees. The driver stepped out, bowed low, didn’t say a word.I climbed in the back. Kayden followed. The door shut with a soft click. The car started moving. Smooth. Quiet.The car ride back was silent. Not the good kind of silent. The thick, hea
Kayden’s POVThat smirk undid me. Every ounce of control I was trying to hold on to disappeared in that instant. It was like something snapped inside.Before I could even process the thought, I moved and went for her. Grabbed her arms and Pushed her flat onto her back in the grass.She didn’t resist. Just let out a low, rough laugh that went straight to my dick.I pushed Her legs wide apart and I dropped between them.Our bodies slammed together. Skin on skin. Hot. Sweaty. Still smelling of forest and run.I crushed my mouth to hers.It was no soft kiss. It was Hard and Hungry. Teeth clashing. Tongue forcing in deep.She kissed back just as rough. Bit my bottom lip. Hard. Blood bloomed. It's taste was sharp and metallic.I growled into her mouth.My hands were everywhere. Grabbed her breasts. Squeezed rough. Thumbs flicked over her nipples. I Pinched and twisted.She arched off the ground. Moaned loud into my mouth.“Kayden…”The way she said my name, breathless and needy made me lose
Kayden’s POVThe words just hung there in the dark room after she left. I’ll die soon.My heart was doing this stupid, frantic drum solo against my ribs. I couldn’t get it to stop. A cold fear, the kind that sits deep in your bones, had me shivering even though the room wasn’t cold. It didn’t make sense. She was the Alpha Queen. She was brutal and hard and unkillable. But she’d said it like she was stating a fact, like the sun would rise. And the look in her eyes… there was no joke there.I couldn’t just stand there. I pulled on my pants and a shirt, not even caring what they were, and ran after her.I caught up to her in the main courtyard. She was a dark shadow moving toward the tree line. “Nyx! Wait!”She didn’t slow down.I jogged to fall in step beside her. “Talk to me. What does that even mean? How? There has to be something—”She walked faster, her boots silent on the grass. Heading into the thicker forest behind the fortress.“Can you just say something? Anything!”Nothing. Ju
Nyx’s POVI rode hard. The wind bit at my face, sharp and clean. My horse’s hooves pounded the dirt. I pushed him faster. I needed the speed. I needed to outrun the quiet in my room, the look in Kayden’s eyes. If I went fast enough, maybe I could leave it all behind.Ahead of me, the light cracked open the world.It wasn’t the sun. It was a rip in the sky. A white-gold fire that didn’t burn. It grew until it was all I could see.My horse reared. I held on, but the sound was gone. Everything was silent.A hand came from the light. Just a hand. Pale and perfect.I felt the pull deep in my guts. In my bones. I couldn’t fight it. I didn’t want to.I let go of the reins. I slid off. My feet hit the ground.I walked to the light. I reached out. My fingers touched hers.Warmth shot up my arm. Then a yank, hard behind my navel.The plains vanished.My knees hit cold stone. The air left my lungs. The smell hit me—ozone and old starlight and something sweet, like crushed jasmine. I looked up.T
Lyra’s POVI took a deep breath outside the heavy oak doors of Nyx’s private suite, trying to steady my hands. The basket I carried felt heavier than it should, filled with all her favorites—jasmine-scented candles that burned slow and sweet, a bottle of rare perfume distilled from midnight blooms in the southern packs, and those little honeyed fruits she used to pop into her mouth during our lazy afternoons. I’d wrapped everything in black silk, tied with a red ribbon. Red like blood. Red like passion.It had been some time since the dining room disaster. it felt like days of pacing my room, replaying her cold words, her indifference. But I knew Nyx. She was fire wrapped in ice. She’d melt for me again. She always did. I just needed to remind her what we had—what no filthy human like Kayden could ever give her.I smoothed my dress. it was deep crimson, low-cut, clinging to every curve. My hair was loose, the way she liked to run her fingers through it. I dabbed a little of the perfum
Nyx’s POVI knew exactly where this was headed the moment I stepped into his room.The air was thick with so many emotions. hurt, confusion, raw need. His eyes were dark, stormy, flicking over me like he couldn’t help himself. My skin burned under that look. My pulse thrummed low and insistent between my legs.I didn’t come here for soft words. I didn’t know how to give them anyway.I knew one language that worked when everything else failed.I stepped in close, palms flat on his chest, and shoved hard aiming to push him down onto the bed so I could take what we both needed on my terms.His hands snapped up, caught my wrists, held them firm.“No.”The single word stopped me.I arched a brow, heat already coiling in my belly. “You don’t want it? Fine”I turned, reaching for the door, letting the silk nightgown shift against my thighs.His fingers closed around my arm, pulled me back. “It’s not that I don’t want it,” he said, voice rough, eyes burning. “I want it too much. But I want to







