MasukI was invisible. A wolf-less servant, beaten down and forgotten. Until the Lycan King saw me. For twelve years, I survived by making myself nothing: no voice, no power, no hope. My stepfamily made sure I knew my place. But they never knew my secret: I'm not wolf-less. I'm a silver wolf, blessed by the Moon Goddess herself, hiding in plain sight because showing my true nature would've gotten me killed. Then Kael Devereaux walked into the Culling ceremony, and everything shattered. One look. One scent. One brutal claiming bite in front of thousands, and I became his. Lycan King's fated mate, his Luna, his healing. Kael isn't looking for love. He’s loosing his mind and I am the only thing standing between him and madness. Now I'm trapped in a palace of enemies who want me dead, bound to a king who's equal parts monster and salvation, and discovering that my hidden power might be the only thing that can break his curse or doom us both. They think I'm weak and breakable. They are wrong. I didn't survive twelve years of hell just to bow to a new kind of monster. I survived to become one. Welcome to the Shadowstone Citadel. Try not to bleed on the throne.
Lihat lebih banyakARIADerek's body hit the floor and his heart was not beating and I had seconds to decide who I wanted to be.The choice should have been easy. He tormented me for years. Letting him die was justice. Watching his sister suffer was payback for every humiliation I endured.But that path led to becoming exactly what Bryson was. What Drake was. Monsters who chose cruelty over compassion.I dropped to my knees beside Derek and placed both hands on his chest. Silver light poured from my palms into his still body."Aria stop." Kael's voice carried warning through the bond. "You are draining yourself for someone who hurt you.""I know." My power flowed into Derek like water into cracked earth. "But I will not become what they were."The healing cost more than I expected. My vision blurred as energy drained away. My limbs grew heavy like someone poured lead into my bones.But Derek's heart stuttered once. Twice. Then settled into steady rhythm.His eyes opened confused and terrified. He gaspe
ARIADerek's wolf slammed into me with force that cracked ribs and sent us both crashing into the throne room wall.His jaws snapped inches from my throat. Foam dripped from his mouth onto my face. His eyes were completely black like all humanity had been burned away.This was not normal wolf strength. The dark magic enhanced everything about him. He was made him faster, stronger, and more vicious than any Alpha should be.I threw silver light at him but he barely flinched. He kept attacking with mindless weapon precision designed to kill."Derek stop." I tried to reach whatever consciousness remained. "This is not you, Drake is controlling you."He didn’t respond, instead he lunge and I barely dodged. His claws raked across my shoulder and tore through flesh like paper.I did not want to kill him. He was a victim just like me. A boy raised by a monster and now used as a puppet.But subduing him without lethal force was nearly impossible when he fought with enhanced strength and zero
ARIABryson's screams cut through the throne room like broken glass and nobody moved to help him.His body convulsed on the stone floor as Alpha power burned away thread by thread. Silver light wrapped around him like chains and tore out everything that made him dominant.I watched his wolf fracture and shatter inside his chest. His strength drain from his muscles until he looked skeletal. I watched years catch up to him all at once.Without Alpha vitality he aged rapidly. Grey spread through his hair. Lines carved into his face. His hands became gnarled and twisted like old branches.He was becoming the thing he despised most. A weak, powerless, omega.The transformation was excruciating and I felt no mercy watching it happen. This was justice for everything he did. Through the bond Kael's emotions were complicated. Pride mixed with something close to fear. I had become a force of nature he could admire but not fully control."Remind me never to anger you." His voice held dark amuse
ARIABryson knelt on the throne room floor with tears streaming down his face and his Alpha power meant nothing against Luna authority.His body shook as he fought the compulsion. Muscles straining and his veins bulging in his neck. But he could not stand no matter how hard he tried.I could kill him with a thought. Everyone in the room knew it. They felt it in the air like electricity before a storm.Drake backed toward the exit with eyes darting between me and the doors. He realized his alliance was crumbling and his plan had failed.Ryker moved to block his path with a growl. "Going somewhere?""This was Bryson's idea." Drake's voice carried desperation now instead of confidence. "I was just following orders.""You orchestrated my father's madness." I spoke without looking away from Bryson. "You do not get to run."Through the bond Kael's support flooded into me warm and steady. He stood ready to intervene if I asked but this was my justice to deliver.I walked toward Bryson slowly
ARIAThe chains burned against my skin like acid and every breath felt like swallowing broken glass.Drake circled my prison with satisfaction that made my stomach turn. "Twenty years I studiedevery weakness and vulnerability of silver wolves. These chains are perfect."I pulled against the dark m
ARIASelene's sob cut through the throne room like a blade and every eye turned toward her."He started when I was sixteen." Her voice broke on the confession. "After my mother died. He said it was my duty as his daughter."The silence that followed felt like the world holding its breath. Even the
ARIADrake's smile held twenty years of planning and that realization turned my blood to ice."You look surprised." He pressed the knife harder against Vera's throat. "Did you think this was spontaneous? That we just happened to attack while you were conveniently unconscious?"Kael's fury blazed th
ARIAI woke to an empty bed and cold sheets.Panic flared through me before I remembered where I was. Kael's chambers. Safe. He'd probably just gotten up early for King duties or whatever Lycan rulers did at dawn.Then I heard the growling.I sat up quickly, my heart pounding. The sound was coming
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