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49. Three hundred years

Author: Hannah Uzzy
last update publish date: 2026-08-09 21:44:08

Elise

The wings beat the air into a frenzy of wind and moonlight, and for one disorienting heartbeat I thought Ashgrave had somehow summoned yet another horror to add to a night already overflowing with them.

Then the creature dropped into the clearing between us and the priests, and I understood, with a jolt that stole the breath from my lungs, that it wasn't a monster at all.

It was enormous — easily the size of a small horse — feathered along a hawk-sharp head and forelimbs that tapered into
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    Elise"Three hundred years," the woman said again, as though the words themselves still tasted strange in her mouth after so long unspoken. "I've imagined this moment more times than I could count, and somehow I never once imagined I'd be trembling when it finally came."She wasn't trembling. Not that I could see. But something in her voice carried the same fragile disbelief I felt looking at her — a face lifted directly from a painting I'd grown up beneath, sworn by my father to belong to a woman three generations gone before I ever drew breath."You can't be her," I said, though even as I spoke it, the golden-dark current beneath my ribs stirred with something that felt disturbingly like recognition. "The portrait in my father's study. She died before he was even born.""Died," the woman echoed, something wry and sorrowful threading through the word. "That was the story your family told, yes. Easier, perhaps, than explaining what actually happened to a woman who chose to remain here

  • My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King    50. Hollow Court

    ElliottThe Sentinel's shriek still echoed in my skull long after Alaric and Elise vanished into the trees, and I found myself grateful, in some savage, unfamiliar part of my chest, that whatever ancient guardian had dropped from the sky tonight had bought them the distance they needed.It didn't leave much for the rest of us."Fall back to the ravine's edge!" Reyes shouted, blood streaking his temple, his sword arm visibly tiring after what felt like hours of unbroken combat though it could only have been minutes. "We hold here, we don't advance!"I planted myself beside him, my wounded side screaming with every movement, watching Tyler's borrowed body circle at the clearing's edge with two remaining priests flanking him, their black eyes patient, unhurried, the particular calm of predators who understood the prey had nowhere left to run."Tyler." I forced his name out steady despite the fear clawing up my throat, despite everything I'd learned in the last few minutes about a grief h

  • My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King    49. Three hundred years

    EliseThe wings beat the air into a frenzy of wind and moonlight, and for one disorienting heartbeat I thought Ashgrave had somehow summoned yet another horror to add to a night already overflowing with them.Then the creature dropped into the clearing between us and the priests, and I understood, with a jolt that stole the breath from my lungs, that it wasn't a monster at all.It was enormous — easily the size of a small horse — feathered along a hawk-sharp head and forelimbs that tapered into something closer to a wolf's powerful haunches, silver-gray fur bleeding seamlessly into darker plumage along its spine. Its eyes, when it turned them toward us, burned the same molten gold as the old woman's, the same color I'd begun to recognize as belonging to whatever remained of my mother's ancient order."A Sentinel," the old woman's voice called from somewhere behind it, breathless, as she and a handful of the gray-cloaked strangers broke from the tree line at a dead run. "We bred them t

  • My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King    48. Blood Queen

    King AlaricI had fought beside Tyler for years, watched him take wounds meant for Elliott, watched him track a stolen infant across an entire palace's grounds without once losing his nerve. Nothing in that history prepared me for the sight of his face lit by black fire, his familiar features gone slack and wrong, his eyes swallowed by the same flat darkness I'd watched claim half the Hollow Court's line only minutes ago."Let him go," I said, my voice low, dangerous, the horse still shifting nervously beneath us as I fought to keep it steady. "Whatever you've done to him, undo it now, or I promise you'll regret ever finding him first.""Undo it?" Tyler's mouth curved into a smile that had never once belonged to the man I knew, something ancient and amused moving behind features stretched thin over it like a mask worn too tight. "You misunderstand, Your Majesty. We didn't *take* anything from him. We simply offered a trade he found considerably easier to accept than you might expect."

  • My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King    47. Lavender

    EliseThe two halves of myself felt like standing on ice that had already begun to crack.I could feel the golden warmth — mine, healing, the part of me that had reached for a frightened child, that had closed a wound in Alaric's shoulder without a single thought for the cost. And beneath it, coiled and patient and hungry, the other half, the one I'd claimed freely in that gray, colorless place, testing the edges of my will every time another priest's reaching thought brushed against it like fingers along a locked door."Talk to me," Alaric said again, his voice the only steady thing in a world gone unsteady around its edges. "Tell me something true. Something only you would know.""What?""Anything. Your favorite color before any of this started. The name of the first medicine you ever tried to make. Anything that's *yours*, not theirs, not the Heart's."I understood, distantly, what he was doing — throwing me a rope, giving the frightened, exhausted, entirely human part of me someth

  • My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King    46. Fight it

    King AlaricFor one disbelieving heartbeat, no one moved.The chasm that had swallowed half the Hollow Court's line steamed faintly in the cold night air, its edges too clean, too deliberate to be anything natural — not an earthquake, not some accident of terrain, but something summoned, precise, and utterly merciless.The priest staggered back from the pit's ragged edge, his composure finally, genuinely cracking. "That's not possible," he snarled. "There is no bloodline within a hundred miles capable of—""Wrong bloodline to be counting," a new voice cut in, weary but unmistakably steady, and I turned to find Elise's mother emerging from the tree line behind us, flanked by a dozen of the gray-cloaked strangers who'd sworn themselves to Elise not an hour before, her hands still raised, trembling with the visible cost of whatever she'd just done."Mother?" Elise's voice cracked with disbelief. "How did you—""I told you thirteen years wasn't long enough to erase everything Ashgrave's h

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