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
“Did you know how physically excruciating Asher had made it for himself to touch you?” He said, dragging in a ragged breath, swallowing a wince.My eyes widened as something heavy clamped down on my chest, tightening with every breath.Asher was hurting himself every time he touched me?Madness glan
[Raven]My grip loosened on Xanthea’s wrist.Not because I wanted to let go, but because I was waiting to feel something.Anything.But there was nothing.Just thick air, suffocating me from within.But before my fingers could slip away, her other hand held mine. Tight.My head snapped toward her.H
[Asher]A cry tore from my throat as my fingers curled into tight fists.The throne was cold beneath my touch.The crown prince’s flute still played the melody.Xanthea’s erratic breaths echoed louder in my ears.I hadn’t lost control yet, but the malignant heaviness growing in my head warned me it
“He is not Alpha Asher,” the prince said. “Before losing control, Alpha Asher mindlinked with me. He told me to take you away and hide you somewhere he couldn’t find you.”I felt the tremor in his body bleed into mine, his breaths icy against my neck begging me to stop resisting and trust him.“Rubb







