LOGINChapter 38Lilith’s POVI drifted back into consciousness through a thick, warm haze of safety. Not even my father when I thought he was the best made me feel this safe. I heard them. I heard Cassian roar at them for daring to wake me up. I can't believe he will prefer to let the pack burn down in ruins, instead of waking me up.When I finallyregain full consciousness, there was no ash in my lungs. No freezing obsidian dust blowing across a dark void, no spectral claws dragging me down into my father's nightmare. The terrifying, suffocating grip that had anchored his dark blood to mine for eighteen years was quiet, utterly shattered by the silver blade Cassian and I had driven through his shadow in our mind-walk.I was whole. My wolf lay curled peacefully behind my ribs, resting in a quiet, golden warmth that made my entire body feel deliciously heavy. I almost forgot what it felt like to not go through pain.Then, I felt some warmth on my bare feet, his tongue fiddled with the palm
Chapter 37Morgana’s POVI looked down from my high balcony, I watched the back and forth from Brandon and Lucien from my cabin in the corridor reaching boiling point. Brandon’s hand hovered above the hilt of his sword, his Beta authority flaring in direct defiance of Lucien, while Lucien stood locked like an iron wall outside the Alpha’s door. For once, Brandon was working with the information I gave him.Neither of them was yielding. The raw, violent tension between the two highest-ranking males stood almost at each others neck giving threats I never knew Brandon possessed. Then, the world shattered.It wasn't a war-horn. It wasn't the sound of steel drawing steel.A sound like rattled thunder erupted from behind the heavy oak doors; of the alpha's chamber, a raw, deafening roar of pure Alpha dominance that vibrated straight through the stone floors and made the iron bars of my balcony vibrate like tuning forks.BOOM.My ears responded to the effect...with an echoing, I thought I
Chapter 36Morgana’s POVThe moment i heard clicking into place of the iron bolt of my door on the outside of my chamber. The sound drove grave pain into my heart. Why was my brother, letting his guard down because he likes a woman? I stood in the center of my strategist tower, my palms burning where the coarse stone wall had scraped them when Lucien threw me back. I would, have said my room had a deafening silence, but yhe clicking of my sandals and my panting interrupted the silence. The Alpha lay unconscious, bleeding his aura dry for a girl whose father held the leash to her breath. And outside my door, Lucien stood guard, blinded by a quiet, tragic devotion to a female who would bring this entire fortress down around our ears."Idiots," I hissed into the dark room, my chest heaving as hot, bitter tears choked my throat. "Fools. Every last one of you. Lucien you know how much I hate to be locked in any room, yet you did it anyway."I paced the rug in front of the cold hearth, my
Chapter 35Lucien’s POVThe silence in the high corridor was heavy enough to crush bone. No one made a sound or dared to trespass anywhere close to the alpha chamber...knowing about the important rituals that had gone down some days ago.Inside the Alpha’s bedchamber, the air had finally settled into a deep, unbroken quiet. Through the heavy iron-bound oak doors, I couldn't hear the sound of boots or blades, only the low, synchronized cadence of two breaths. Cassian and Lilith were both completely unconscious . Or maybe they were awake, I couldn't tell since the Alpha's door was made with sound proof materials.I didn't know what was happening behind those closed eyes, nor did I care to guess. All I knew was that Cassian had tried to save Lilith with his own blood, and now both of them were out cold, paying the physical price. It didn't matter to me what was use to advert the curse as long as Lilith was going to be okay. I am down with it.I stood post at the center of the hallway, my
Chapter 34Cassian’s POVThe silence oin the bedchamber was heavy, only her steady breathing interrupted the quiet.For two days, I hadn't left her side. I sat on the edge of the mattress, my broad frame hunched forward, my head resting near her hand. Underneath my left sleeve, the dark, shadowy veins I had pulled from her body during the ritual pulsed with a continuous, searing agony. It felt like liquid fire gnawing at my bone, but every time I looked at her pale, peaceful face; and the fact that it was now free of the hideous black vines, I welcomed the burn that ran through my own skin.Suddenly, her fingers twitched against the furs.A quiet, broken gasp spilled from her lips as her eyes fluttered open. Her violet gaze was hazy, disoriented as she tried to adjust to the dim torchlight of the room."Lilith..." I rasped, my voice thick and raw from hours of silence.She turned her head slowly, her eyes locking onto mine. The moment she realized where she was, tears welled up in he
Chapter 34Lilith’s POVI know I wasn't awake but my ears could still hear faintly what Cassian was saying along with the man whose aura I hadn't felt before. But Cassian called him Master Vane. The moment Master Vane’s counter-runes settled into my shoulder, the physical world vanished completely.I didn't fall into a soft, quiet sleep. My consciousness was yanked downward, plunging into a vast, metaphysical expanse; a realm of shadows created by the active tether of the Blood-Seal. Here, in the void between spirit and flesh, my father’s dark influence wasn't just a lingering curse; it was a living, breathing entity constructed from centuries of dark blood-magic.I stood on a desolate plain of cracked, violet obsidian under a sky made of swirling ink. In the center of the void, a colossal shadow in the shape of my father towered over me, its eyes glowing like molten iron.“You think a silver rune can sever us?” my father’s metaphysical voice boomed, rattling the soul inside my ribs.







