MasukLila’s POV Every piece of my life suddenly made a terrible, but beautiful sense and the weight of everything I’d just learned pressed against my consciousness like an ocean trying to drown me. I was destined to be the Luna of some cursed Divine Alpha that I’d never met and the twins… My twins are the twin flames meant to call my mate to me despite an ancient curse. And through it all, I’d been trapped. Forced to listen while Eryndra controlled my body, and revealed truths I’d never asked for. But the honest truth was that listening to it all shifted something inside of me, it made me angry but I understood. And with understanding came a choice. I could either keep fighting, keep resisting who I was meant to be, keep pretending I was just an exiled omega trying to survive in the human world. Or I could just accept it. Accept the power, the responsibility, and the destiny that had been written for me before I was even born. ‘Eryndra,’ I said quietly through our link. ‘I
Lila’s POV“Eryndra.” Mira’s hand gripped the doorframe so hard her knuckles went white. “Why have you come here? I paid my debt. I did what you asked twenty years ago. I thought we agreed…”“The debt is not paid.” Eryndra pushed forward slightly, and Mira automatically stepped back, allowing us entry. “Not while the child you saved still does not know the truth of what she is.”Mira’s eyes finally focused on my face, on me, not just on Eryndra. Her expression shifted from shock to recognition then to something that looked like grief.“Oh,” she whispered, tears suddenly flooding her eyes. “Oh no. It’s really you. Lila. Little Lila.”And that’s when I realized, this woman knew me. Had known me as a child.Marcus followed us inside, closing the door firmly behind him. The apartment above the bookstore was cluttered with books and artifacts, candles burning despite the early hour, creating shadows that danced across w
Lila’s POVDay OneMy body was a prison, and I was the captive.From somewhere deep inside of me, I watched helplessly as Eryndra controlled my every movement. She’d taken complete control again on that rooftop with Marcus, and she hadn’t given me back control.‘Eryndra, please,’ I begged through our shared consciousness. ‘Let me have my body back. I need to get back to campus. Joan will worry. Dante will….’‘Be patient, little wolf,’ Eryndra’s voice was calm, annoyingly calm. ‘There is someone we must see. Someone who holds answers you desperately need.’‘Then tell me where we’re going! Let me choose to go there myself!’‘You will not only hesitate but also doubt and question.’ She moved with purpose through Marcus’s apartment, gathering supplies. ‘We do not have time for your fear. The children grow stronger every day, and you grow weaker. You need truth, and you need it now.’Marcus watched us with con
Lila’s POVThe air around us erupted into chaos. Wind whipped across the rooftop with enough force to make Marcus stagger. The concrete beneath my feet cracked, spider-webbing outward, water from a nearby drainage pipe burst free, swirling through the air in spirals. And heat, intense, burning heat, radiated from my body in waves.“Lila!” Marcus shouted over the elements gone wild. “You need to calm down! The twins..”But I couldn’t calm down. Everything was too much. The truth about my parents. The Eclipse King hunting my children. Dante’s mysterious connection to me. It all crashed together in my mind, overwhelming, suffocating.‘Enough.’The command reverberated through my skull, and suddenly I wasn’t in control anymore.Eryndra surged forward, taking dominance with a force that made my body jerk. The chaotic elements immediately snapped into perfect order, wind circling in precise patterns, water flowing in ele
Lila’s POVI woke with a violent gasp, my body jerking upright so suddenly that multiple hands immediately pressed against my shoulders, trying to ease me back down.“Easy, easy,” a voice said, rough but filled with concern. “You’re safe. You’re in the campus medical center. Just breathe.”My eyes flew open, taking in my surroundings with urgency. The white walls, sterile smell, medical equipment beeping softly nearby. Joan stood on one side of my bed, her face pale with worry. Theo hovered uncertainly near the door. And Dante sat in a chair pulled close to my bedside, his icy blue eyes locked on my face with an intensity that made it hard to catch my breath.“The glamour,” I whispered, my hands flying to my stomach. “Is it still…”“Still holding,” Joan said quickly, trying to not let Dante and Theo know what we were hiding. “Barely but I reinforced it while you were unconscious, but Lila, we can’t keep doing this. Your bod
Lila’s POVWe stood in the forest now, deep in the heart of pack territory where the oldest trees grew. The moon hung full and heavy overhead, casting silver light through branches that seemed to reach toward it like desperate hands. And there, gathered in a clearing that looked like it had been burned deliberately into the forest floor, were the Eclipse King’s rogues.There were dozens of them, maybe more, they were lurking in the shadows. All twisted and wrong, their forms flickering between wolf and something else, something more monstrous, like nightmares that were given flesh and teeth. Their red eyes glowed with malevolent intelligence, and the air around them seemed to shine with corruption.At their center stood a figure I instinctively knew was their leader. He was massive, easily seven feet tall in his semi-shifted form, with broad shoulders and arms corded with unnatural muscle. Scars covered his visible skin like a roadmap of vio







