The King. My father. Dead? No. No, that’s impossible. My father can’t be dead. He’s too strong, too unshakable, too—everything. He’s the Alpha King. He can’t just… be gone. The words burn inside me, sharp and unreal. I can’t breathe, can’t even think. My lips move before I can stop them, barely mo
“No!” Malik’s scream rips across the realm, raw with terror. “Not the eternal fire! Please—I’ll change, I’ll—” But mercy does not come. The Queen’s grip on the chain tightens one last time, and with a flick, she casts him down. His scream fades into the roar of the eternal blaze, swallowed as his
The spirit world opens like a breath of eternity—vast, endless, silver light stretching across a sky with no stars, only the pale glow of the eternal moon. The ground beneath is neither earth nor air, shifting like mist yet solid enough to hold the weight of souls. It is beautiful, serene… but heavy
“You know what to do,” she says, her voice low but firm. “Once I am inside the necklace.” Jack shifts back, his bare chest rising and falling with exhaustion. His eyes flash with panic. “Are you sure about this?” “This isn’t the time to hesitate and be a pussy, Jack,” she snaps, stepping toward hi
The clearing thrums with a tension so thick it feels alive, pressing against the skin like a storm about to shatter the heavens. Shadows stretch long, the air vibrating with Malik’s twisted laughter as the Queen takes another step forward, her face carved from ice. “Enough of your wickedness,” she
Malik’s laughter splits the night again, his body twitching in unnatural spasms, veins glowing faintly with the sickly power of Veydris. And then—he lunges. Darkness pours off him like smoke. Jack wastes no time. Bones snap and stretch, fur bursts across his skin, and in a flash his Alpha King wol