LOGINDarius PovThe doors of the council chamber were already open when I arrived.I paused just outside the entrance for a moment, listening to the voices inside.They were arguing again.Not the calm, structured debate that usually defined council meetings. This was something far uglier. The elders were no longer speaking as rulers trying to guide a kingdom.They were speaking like wolves circling a wounded pack leader.I heard Elder Harrow’s voice clearly. “Fael cannot remain Alpha after this.”Another voice rose sharply. “You cannot remove him without tearing the pack apart.”“It is already torn apart, he imprisoned his stepmother and I’m sure he fabricated those stories from the witnesses and his beta had raped his then wife under his nose.”“Then you will finish destroying it.”More voices followed, overlapping with growing intensity.“The imprisonment of Althea cannot be ignored.”“The accusation died with her.”“That boy is not even Fael’s son.”“That does not erase years of rule.”
Liora povMy gaze dropped slowly to my stomach.The gentle curve beneath my dress had begun to show more clearly in recent weeks.For a moment the anger drained from my body.I stepped toward the large window that overlooked the inner gardens of the palace, my hands moving almost instinctively to cradle the small life growing beneath my heart.Outside, the sky had begun to darken with the coming of the blood moon.Even from inside my chambers I could feel the strange tension in the air. The wolves of the palace were restless tonight. I could hear distant howls echoing faintly through the mountains beyond the walls.Everything felt wrong.Everything felt like it was shifting beneath our feet.I pressed my palm gently against my stomach and closed my eyes.“I’m supposed to be happy,” I whispered softly.My voice sounded hollow in the quiet chamber. “I should be relieved.”The words tasted bitter in my mouth.. Because that was the truth everyone expected me to feel.If Aurelian was not
Seraphine povThe room had become a graveyard of silence.Darius stood across the chamber.. His body had gone rigid.His hands were clenched at his sides so tightly that the bones in his knuckles had turned white.His eyes had changed.. There was no warmth left in them.Only fury.. Pure, lethal fury.Anton saw it too.And his confession still echoed inside my mind like a bell that refused to stop ringing. Every word he had spoken twisted through my chest with a cruelty I had never known before.Aurelian is mine.The sentence had shattered everything.I could barely breathe… I could barely think properly.My hand remained wrapped around Aurelian’s small fingers while my thoughts struggled to keep up with the truth that had just been forced into the open.The night.. The celebration.. The drink.. The missing memory.. The darkness that had swallowed everything after.A cold wave of realization crept through me, slow and suffocating.I had not chosen that night.. It had been stolen from m
Seraphine POVThe room had grown so quiet that I could hear the soft rasp of Aurelian’s breathing against the pillows.Everything else felt distant.. Muted.Like the world had been wrapped in thick fog.I had not moved from the side of the bed since the priestess and Kade dragged Anton back into the chamber. My hand remained wrapped around my Aurelian’s small fingers, as I kept feeling the faint tremor that ran through his body every time his chest desperately struggled for air.I focused on that… On him.Because if I allowed my mind to wander even slightly towards the voices behind me, towards the tension that had settled over the room like a storm waiting to break, I knew I would shatter.The High Priestess’s voice rose calmly through the silence.“Bring him forward.”The guards shoved Anton into the center of the chamber.I could hear his uneven breathing even from where I sat.“Please I wasn’t trying to run I just.. I just panicked,” he said hoarsely.The priestess studied him ca
Kade povThe chamber had not recovered from the explosion of accusations.It had only grown worse.The air inside the healer’s room felt thick with tension and fear while Aurelian continued to struggle for breath on the bed. The candles flickered wildly as if they too sensed the chaos that had taken hold of the palace.No one trusted anyone anymore.Seraphine now stood near the bed like a statue carved from grief and rage, her gaze locked on her son’s pale face while the healers continued their frantic work around him.She had stopped responding to the arguments completely.Her fingers remained wrapped around Aurelian’s hand.Her lips moved occasionally, whispering something too quiet for anyone else to hear.Darius watched her carefully.Fael stood on the other side of the room with an expression that looked dangerously close to panic.Liora had retreated near the wall again after the outburst, though the tension in her posture remained sharp enough to cut through the air.The High
Liora povThe silence that followed the priestess’s words felt suffocating.No one moved.No one spoke.The fang still rested uselessly inside the shallow silver bowl while the candle flames trembled around Aurelian’s bed like they too understood something terrible had just happened.I could hear my own heartbeat.Slow.Heavy.Unbelieving.This was wrong.The ritual had to be wrong.I mean I hated Seraphine but I never thought of her as that kind of person especially with how naive she was when he first brought her to the..Fael stood beside the bed like a statue carved from stone, staring down at the bowl as if he could force the truth to change by sheer will alone.The chief healer cleared her throat quietly.“The ritual recognizes blood,” he said carefully. “It cannot respond falsely.”Seraphine’s fingers slowly released Aurelian’s hand.Her face had gone pale but her eyes burned with something darker than fear.They moved across the room.And stopped on me.The look in them made
Fael’s POVI did not speak as I watched them ride back.I didn’t need to.The anger within me coiled, and breathed as though it was alive and was sitting heavily in my chest that every breath I took felt like I was swallowing fire.They had stood together.That was the first thing my wolf, Mylor sn
Fael’s POVThe chamber was hot.Not from the firelight.. but from the frustration that burned through my veins, restless and unrelenting. Liora’s breath was already uneven beneath me, her fingers clutching at my shoulders as if anchoring herself to something real.The bed creaked softly beneath ou
Darius’s POVMorning came slow and painful..I heard every word in the meeting.I absorbed none of them.My mind was far away from everything that was being said.The council chamber was filled with voices.. measured, strategic, concerned.. but all I could see was Seraphine standing in Grimfang’s h
Liora’s POV“Fuck him” I muttered to myself as I made way to my room.I didn’t slow down as I moved through the corridor.If anything, I walked faster.My skin felt too warm, my pulse was a bit too loud for my liking, and every nerve inside my body was buzzing with the humiliation I hadn’t been abl







