LOGINDarius povThe cold of the North did not comfort instead It sharpened everything.The pain.The loss.The silence.Clawfrost stood as it always had, carved into ice and stone, unyielding against the world, but even here… something felt different.The gates had barely closed behind us before the weight of what we had brought back settled over the pack like a storm that refused to break.Survivors.Wounded.Grieving.Broken.I stood at the center of it all, my vision narrowed on one side, the healer’s hands firm but careful as they worked around my eye.“Hold still,” she said quietly.“I am,” I replied.“Your version of still is… concerning.”I did not respond to that because my focus was not on the pain, it was not on the injury, it was not even on the blood I could still feel drying against my skin.It was on them.. Seraphine and Aurelian.Across the chamber, she knelt beside him, her hands gentle, her voice soft as she tried to calm him.But nothing was working.“I want uncle Kade,”
Darius povThe fire had stopped being something we could fight.It had become something we could only survive.Grimfang was falling.I stood at the edge of what used to be the inner courtyard, my vision blurred on one side, blood still slipping past the cloth Seraphine had tied around my eye, and I knew it with a certainty that settled deep into my bones.This was no longer a battle.This was an ending.Another explosion sounded from the western side, followed by the crack of collapsing stone and the distant screams of wolves still trapped beneath the wreckage.“Alpha!”A warrior stumbled toward me, his arm hanging uselessly at his side, blood soaking through his clothes. “ What do we do now.”I did not respond immediately.Because I already knew.I had known the moment Kade’s message reached me.The moment I saw the way they moved.The way they attacked.This was not a random invasion.This was precision.This was revenge.And we were not ready.My jaw tightened as I turned away fro
Fael povHer… Her.. The child she carried is not mine!!The fire did not stop.Even when the fighting had slowed, even when the clash of steel began to thin into scattered sounds instead of chaos, the fire remained.It crackled.. It spread.. It devoured.. And I stood in the middle of it, unable to move.“Liora what.. What.. What are you saying.. What do you mean.. I.. I dont understand what you're saying what do you mean you carry his child.. what do you mean by his child.. when .. when did this whole.. LIORA”“I said what I said and as it stands I have to rest now,” she had said so lightly, as if this was nothing more than a gathering she had grown bored of. “What I had planned flopped but I’m sure you all have a lot of catching up to do.”Her gaze had lingered on me then. “Oh,” she added with a small chuckle, “I mean… continue with your fight.”The words had cut deeper than any blade.She turned to leave and for a second… I thought she would hesitate, I thought she would look back
SeraphineThe voice did not belong to the battlefield.It did not belong to the chaos, or the screams, or the tearing of flesh.It was too calm.Too amused.Too… deliberate.“How cute.”Darius and I turned at the same time.My heart was still pounding from the sight of blood pouring down his face, from the way he had nearly fallen, from the way I had frozen when I saw that mark.But all of that disappeared the moment I saw her.Liora.For a second, my mind refused to accept it.She stood at the edge of the burning courtyard, untouched by the chaos, untouched by the blood, untouched by everything that was destroying Grimfang around us.And she was not dressed as one of us.She was dressed like them.Dustfang.Dark leathers, marked with their sigil, clinging to her like she had always belonged there.“No…” I whispered, my voice barely forming the word.Beside me, Darius went completely still.Not shocked.. Not confused just still.Like something inside him had already accepted this befo
Darius‘Kade!’ Chiron screamed..War had a sound and It was not just the clash of steel or the tearing of flesh.It was the scream that came too late, it was the breath that never finished, it was the moment everything broke.. And I heard all of it at once as I saw him.Kade.From across the courtyard, through fire and bodies and chaos, I saw him fall.My vision narrowed instantly, the world around me dimming as my focus locked onto the one thing that mattered.He was on the ground he was not moving and blood was pooling beneath him.“Aurelian!” I heard him say faintly, even from the distance.Then nothing.Something inside me snapped.I took a step forward.Then another.But the battlefield surged between us like a living wall.Dustfang wolves poured in from every direction, cutting off every path, every attempt to reach him.“Kade!” I roared, my voice ripping from my chest.No response.. Only more enemies.. Only more blood.I cut through the first one with brutal precision, my blad
Kade’s povThe first thing I did was hide the boy.There was no hesitation in it.No second thought.The moment the horns sounded and the first screams tore through Grimfang, I knew exactly what needed to be done.“Aurelian,” I said, crouching in front of him, my hands firm on his shoulders as chaos roared in the distance. “Listen to me carefully.”His eyes were wide as I could visibly see how fear sat there, raw and unfiltered, but he still nodded.“I am listening.”I glanced around quickly before pulling him toward a narrow stone passage hidden behind one of the inner walls. It was an old escape corridor, one I had memorized the moment we arrived in this cursed place.“You stay here,” I said, guiding him inside. “No matter what you hear, you do not come out unless I come for you. Do you understand?”“But uncle Kade..” he started.I cut him off gently but firmly. “No.” My voice softened just a little. “I will come back for you.”His lips trembled slightly. “You promise?”I held his
Seraphine’s POVHis lips were still warm and tingly from where I’d kissed him.And for a long moment, neither of us moved.The broken glass on the floor caught the moonlight, the scent of whiskey and pine and him filled the entire room.Darius stared at me like I had just shattered something far mo
Seraphine’s POV"Mmmph... ah... Darius..." I whimpered into his mouth, my hands clutching his shoulders as the taste of whiskey heat flooded my senses."You think you know what it means to be mine?" he rasped against my skin, his voice sounded like a low vibrating growl that made my core pulse. "I
Seraphine’s POVI didn’t remember walking back to my chambers.The only thing I knew was that my feet carried me there while my heart lagged behind, torn open and bleeding quietly in my chest.The door closed behind me with a dull thud, and that was all it took..I broke.I pressed my back to the w
Darius’ POVI had not moved from my desk in a long time as I continued drinking.The candle beside me had burned low.. too low, its wax was pooling like a quiet accusation, while the room smelled of old parchment, smoke, and hot whiskey. My fingers tightened around the cup as I replayed the night







