LOGINBut they couldn’t parry it all.My heart no longer pounded.It… slowed.For a moment.Then ripped itself apart, drowning every voice, including Zxlorthon’s warnings.Until only one voice remained.“Give back my brother!”“Return Asher to me!”The shadows writhed violently, hissing as they stopped sh
I frowned as my mind went completely blank.What happened next… was a jumbled chain of fragmented memories.I got up from the couch, opened the cabin’s door and strode out.The corridors swam past me, stretching and warping.Panicked staff. Military trying to pacify them. All blended together.Faces
The bunker wouldn’t hold.Ezra. Xanthea—“I need to get to them.”I didn’t realize I’d said it out loud.I got to my feet.Power surged beneath my skin as I reached to teleport—Cold metal snapped around my wrists.I froze, my power dying in my veins.Mana blocker cufflinks?“What the fuck do you th
[Raven]‘He’s here.’ My breath stalled at Nesryn’s mind-link, my step faltering as I froze in the middle of the cabin.It was almost midnight.The restlessness in my chest detonated without warning, drowning out even the thunder of my heart.‘From the energy fluctuations around the Parliament palac
“Because this was…” I held his gaze, a chill running down my spine. “…my alpha’s command.”The words felt like shards of glass on my tongue and like a soothing ointment in my chest.I had never called Asher alpha. I had always been openly disrespectful to him in front of the pack.Now, for the first
‘Tell no one of my fall. Go to my Alpha cabin. Sit on my chair. Call only Draknor. He’ll understand that I had succumbed to Madness. He’ll know what to do next.’Asher used to repeat that to me and Ezra.At the strangest times.And we just… ignored it.Never realizing — those were the days he fought
[Xanthea]A mate bond.How can a mate bond between me and the prince neutralize the demon lords—I widened my eyes as the realization hit me.My heart pulsed in my throat as my finger grew cold.Mate bond was a sacred spiritual union of two mates, but my soul is already bound to Asher, Raven, and Ez
“For goodness’ sake!”“Alpha Asher is keeping you by his side only because he wants you to create a cure for the curse. Once that is done... what do you think he will do to you? He might not kill you, but he wouldn’t want to keep you by his and his brothers’ side either—”“Enough! Not a word more!”
After this came the Bonding stage that included a public declaration of loyalty through an arranged marriage, the mating ritual, and mutual marking in front of their families, making the bond eternal and unbreakable.Once sealed, the betrothed mate bond functioned like any natural mate bond — with o
[Xanthea]Panic surged through me as my unsteady gaze darted across the graveyard.For a second, I thought Nikolai had sneaked up behind me and shut my mouth, but he stood far behind Yandor and the Crown Prince, his horror-struck eyes locked over my shoulder.If not him, then… who could it be?Did t







