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
But no. It wasn’t them.My emotions collided into a brutal war the second I realized it was me.That was when I knew I was fucked for a lifetime.“Fuck you, Xanthea…”Words trembled through my gritted teeth as my fingers cupped her face, sliding around her nape, as I crashed my lips against hers.Co
[Raven]Had Zxlorthon not calmed me, I don’t know what I would have done to myself, to her, to us.‘You would have done exactly what you did,’ Zxlorthon whispered. ‘You can wear yourself like poison all you want, but when it truly matters, you will always heal even if it hurts you, and that is why I
[Xanthea]Breaths fogged before my lips.My chest heaved as Madness loomed behind me, his gaze cold enough to burn my skin.“I’m all you have, Xanthea…”His breath on the back of my neck froze me just as the sun’s absence had begun to freeze the world.Even the moon’s light had dimmed, yet I could s
Xanthea let out a bitter scoff.Asher turned to face her, her glare piercing him like daggers.Then, her eyes turned to me in pure desperation.“My truth will make no difference to how you see me from here on, but still…” She gulped hard before continuing, “I want you to know that I didn’t know who







