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CHAPTER 16

Author: Megan Newman
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-06 23:28:17

Her father.

The feared Lycan beast. Not so tough now, was he? Her blood had called out to him.

His eyes burned the same gold as Evelyn’s—only older, deeper, carrying centuries of blood and war. His aura slammed into Kael like a mountain. He came for her; he couldn’t abandon her again.

“She’s losing control,” Aldrich snarled. “Stand aside, Alpha. I will handle her.”

Kael rose to his feet, teeth bared.

“She’s my mate. I’m not letting you anywhere near her while she’s like this.”

Aldrich shifted instantly, half-Lycan, half-man, voice rumbling like thunder.

“You think you can protect her from herself? You think you understand the power in her blood? You know nothing, boy.”

Evelyn’s second scream cracked the air. The trees bent toward her as though bowing to a queen.

Kael’s chest heaved.

Aldrich’s claws extended.

Lightning flickered between them.

Then a new voice whispered through the wind—

“The Bloodborn rises.

The Moon bends.

The Beast kneels.”

A prophecy.

Ancient.

Forgotten.

Now awakene
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    Something ancient answered her words.The ground hummed.Kael turned to her then, his expression unreadable to anyone but her.Later, when the keep finally settled—when the warriors dispersed, the elders retreated, and the night deepened—Kael took Selene to the highest chamber of the keep.His chambers.The door shut behind them with a quiet finality.Only then did Kael exhale.His shoulders sagged—not weak, but human.Selene stepped into him without thinking, pressing her forehead to his chest. “You held it together.”“For them,” he said. His hands slid into her hair, gripping just enough to ground himself. “Barely.”She tilted her head up. “For me too.”His gaze darkened—heat and hunger curling beneath the surface.“You don’t know what it takes,” he said hoarsely, “to stand in front of them… knowing how much of you I want to pull away from the world.”The twin shifted, watchful but silent.Selene’s pulse quickened. “Then don’t pull away.”Kael stilled.Slowly, as if giving her every

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    Kael led the Nightfang warriors at the front, his presence a living blade cutting through the unease. Selene rode beside him, her awareness stretched thin between the physical world and the deeper currents beneath it. The twin remained quiet—too quiet—coiled inside Selene like a held breath.She’s listening, Selene realized.Not to the forest.To something below it.They reached the scorched path just as the sun dipped behind the peaks. The earth was split cleanly, not burned but… peeled. Stone exposed where soil should have been, like the land itself had been unmade and rewritten.Kael dismounted, crouching to press his palm to the ground.“It’s warm,” he said. “Recently.”Selene stepped closer. The moment her boot crossed the invisible threshold, her magic reacted—not violently, but with a deep, aching recognition.Her knees buckled.Kael caught her instantly, pulling her into his chest.“Selene.”She clutched his tunic, breath shallow. “This place… it knows me.”The twin stirred at

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    Dawn did not rush them.It crept—slow and pale—over Nightfang Keep, spilling through the narrow balcony opening in ribbons of silver and blue. The mountain breathed around them, stone cooling after a night of tension held and released.Selene woke first.She lay half-curled against Kael’s chest, his arm heavy and warm around her waist, his breathing deep and even for once. In sleep, the Alpha’s constant vigilance loosened its grip. The sharp edges softened. The lines of command faded into something achingly human.She studied him quietly.The scars she knew by heart.The faint glow of the bond-mark at his throat.The way his hand flexed slightly every time she shifted, instinctively checking that she was still there.Inside her, the twin was awake—but calm.He anchors you as much as you anchor him, she observed, no jealousy this time. Just truth.Selene answered silently, That’s the point.She traced a slow line with her fingertip along Kael’s collarbone, careful not to wake him. Powe

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    Three nights later, the earth screamed.Not beneath Nightfang territory—but far to the east, where the stone sloped downward toward the Cascades. A shockwave rippled outward, snapping trees like kindling and sending flocks of birds screaming into the sky.Kael was on his feet instantly, wolf surging.“Report,” he snapped as scouts burst into the hall.One dropped to a knee, breathing hard. “A breach,” she said. “Not an avatar. Something… made.”Selene’s pulse quickened. She felt it—an absence, a hollowing wrongness where something living should have been.“Eryx is escalating,” she said. “He’s creating servants that don’t fear death.”Kael’s jaw clenched. “Then we stop them before they reach our borders.”He turned to the assembled warriors. “Nightfang does not wait to be hunted.”The pack howled in answer.As preparations began, Selene retreated briefly to the high terrace overlooking the forest. The moon hung low, silver and watchful.The twin emerged beside her, fully formed in the

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    Sleep did not come gently to Selene.It took her.The moment her eyes closed, the world tipped—and she was falling, not through darkness, but through herself. Silver mist tore open, revealing the familiar expanse of her soul-realm: a sky of fractured moonlight, a ground that reflected stars like broken glass.Her twin stood at the center.Not looming.Not hiding.Waiting.“You came without being dragged this time,” the twin said quietly.Selene steadied her breath. She felt Kael’s mark like a warm anchor at the base of her throat, distant but present. I am choosing this, she reminded herself.“I didn’t come to argue,” Selene said. “I came to end the silence.”The twin tilted her head, dark hair shifting like ink in water. “Silence kept us alive.”“Silence kept you in control.”A flicker—hurt, then irritation—passed across the twin’s face. “I protected you when no one else could.”Selene stepped closer. The ground responded, brightening beneath her feet. “You protected me by deciding f

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