LOGINSkylar's POV
Three weeks passed and Ross grew weaker each day. His heart stuttered through beats. His breathing became laboured. The soul bond showed me everything he felt and it hurt.
I refused to leave his side. Myron and I took shifts sleeping in chairs but mostly we just held Ross. Talked to him. Reminded him of every beautiful moment we shared.
"Remember the bar?" I whispered one night. My hand wrapped around his. "When you tried to buy me a drink after
Myron's POVRoss died at sunrise. The first light broke over Moonfall's territory and he simply stopped breathing. One moment his chest rose and fell. The next time it did not.Peaceful. That was what everyone would say later. He went peacefully. But there was nothing peaceful about the soul bond shattering.Part of my soul tore away with Ross. Ripped from my chest like someone had reached inside and pulled out my heart. The pain dropped me to my knees.I collapsed beside the bed. Could not support my own weight. Skylar caught me but she was breaking too. We held each other and sobbed.Seventy five years. We had seventy five years together. It was not enough. It would never be enough.The world felt wrong without Ross's presence in the bond. Empty. Incomplete. Like trying to breathe with only one lung."He is gone," Skylar whispered. "He is really gone."I could not answer. Words did not exist for this kind of pai
Ross's POVI knew these were my last coherent hours. My body was shutting down piece by piece and I felt it happening. The healers gave me herbs that dulled the pain but nothing could stop the tiredness.It pulled at me constantly. Tried to drag me under. But I fought it because I had things to say first. Words my family needed to hear before I left."Ryder." My voice came out rough. Weak. "Come here, son."My eldest stepped closer. His face was red from crying but he composed himself. Tried to be strong for me like he always did."You inherited my strategic mind," I said. Each word took effort. "My need to lead and protect. But being alpha is not about being the strongest or smartest.""What is it about then?" Ryder's voice cracked."Serving your pack with humility and love. Putting their needs above your own ego. Asking for help when you need it.""Asking for help feels like weakness.""That is what
Skylar's POVThree weeks passed and Ross grew weaker each day. His heart stuttered through beats. His breathing became laboured. The soul bond showed me everything he felt and it hurt.I refused to leave his side. Myron and I took shifts sleeping in chairs but mostly we just held Ross. Talked to him. Reminded him of every beautiful moment we shared."Remember the bar?" I whispered one night. My hand wrapped around his. "When you tried to buy me a drink after Anthony rejected me?"Ross's smile was faint but real. "You told me to go to hell. Called me an entitled asshole.""You were an entitled asshole.""I was thirteen and stupid. Thought being mean would make you notice me.""It worked. Just not the way you planned."Through the soul bond, we shared memories. That first meeting when I was eighteen and heartbroken. Ross and Myron tormented me during volleyball practices because they could not figure out how else to
Ross's POVLife changed after Skylar chose mortality. We stopped preparing for death and started living for joy. It was a shift I had not known we needed.We traveled places we always talked about but never visited. Mountains where the air tasted like ice. Beaches with sand so white it hurt to look at. Cities full of noise and life and possibility.Mornings became lazy. We stayed in bed long past sunrise. Let the soul bond wrap around us like a blanket made of feeling. No urgency. No crises. Just us."I could get used to this," Myron said one morning. His hand traced patterns on Skylar's shoulder. "Doing nothing in particular.""We earned it." Skylar's voice was soft with contentment. "Decades of fighting. We deserve lazy mornings."I pulled them both closer. "Agreed."We spoiled our grandchildren shamelessly. Phoenix during his visits got whatever he wanted. Ryder's daughters learned quickly that Grandpa Ross was an eas
Myron's POVI held Skylar that night while she trembled. The choice her mother offered was impossible. Live forever as a guardian spirit or find peace in death.Through our soul bond, I felt her turmoil. Every fear and hope and question tangled together until she could barely think straight.Ross pressed against her other side. Our bond wrapped around all three of us like it always had. Steady. Unbreakable. Or so I thought."What happens to us?" The words escaped before I could stop them. "If you become a spirit what happens to our bond?"Skylar looked at me. Her eyes were wet with tears. "I do not know.""We have been bonded for decades." Ross's voice cracked. "This connection defines who we are. If it severs we might not survive losing you twice.""I know."The soul bond pulsed between us. I felt everything they felt. Ross's terror. Skylar's guilt. My own desperation to keep us together."Whatever I choose our bond is eternal." Skylar touched both our faces. "Death cannot break it.
Skylar's POVI watched Ryder hold his son and my heart broke for him. Phoenix was alive but the joy felt incomplete. Bittersweet in ways only a parent could understand.My son had his child back but not really. Phoenix existed somewhere between worlds now. A guardian of reality who could visit but never truly come home.Ross squeezed my hand. Through our soul bond, I felt his understanding. We had lived through so many sacrifices over the decades.I gave up my Prima powers to save my mates. Anthony died protecting us all. Jamie chose to exist in the buffer dimension. Now Phoenix guarded the void itself.Sacrifice ran through our family like blood. But so did love. Resilience. The stubborn refusal to give up even when everything seemed lost."He will be okay," I whispered to Ryder later. "Phoenix is stronger than you know.""He is seven Mom. He should be playing and learning and being a kid.""He is also prophesied. That changes everything whether we like it or not."Ryder's eyes were
Skylar's POVI existed in a place that was not quite darkness and not quite light. The pain was gone and my heart no longer struggled to beat and everything felt distant like I was floating in warm water.Then I saw her. My mother stood before me and she glowed with soft ethereal light that made he
Luna's POV The world was saved and I did not know what to do with myself anymore.We had fulfilled the prophecy. Closed the dimensional tear. Stopped the guardian's plan. The Trinity's purpose was complete and I felt hollow instead of triumphant.Ryder threw himself into pack leadership. He traine
Kai's POVI had always relied on patterns. Logic. The predictable rules that governed reality.But entering the dimensional city broke everything I knew.Physics stopped working correctly. Gravity shifted randomly and sent us stumbling sideways or floating
Myron's POVWe returned to Moonfall with captured humans and news that could destroy everything we knew.Twenty-four hours until humanity learned about us and twenty-four hours to decide how both species would survive what came next.The great hall w







