LOGINIn a world where omegas are born to serve and Alphas rule with iron hearts, Lyra’s marriage to Alpha Darius seemed like salvation, until she learned it was all a lie. Betrayed, broken, and left for dead, she is saved by his rival, Kael, a man as dangerous as he is unreadable. Bound by vengeance, Lyra rises from the ashes to reclaim her life and destroy the empire built on her pain. But as secrets unravel and her buried power awakens, she must decide whether revenge will consume her or crown her.
View MoreKAELThe gap narrowed to nothing three inches from my hand.I hit the stone with my shoulder anyway, full weight, and it didn't move. No seam. No give. Just smooth rock where an opening had been a half second earlier, sealed so completely that if I hadn't watched it happen I'd have thought there had never been a door there at all."Kael!"Gideon's shout came from behind me, sharp with something that wasn't panic yet but was close to it.I turned.The line had held for maybe ten seconds after Lyra went through. Then it hadn't. Three of the dark-clothed attackers had broken past Rafael's flank, moving fast and low, and one of them was already inside our perimeter, close enough that I saw his face for the first time.Wrong.His expression hadn't changed since I first saw him on the slope.Gideon's shot had dropped his companion clean through the chest thirty seconds ago and this one hadn't so much as glanced at the body.I put him down with a strike to the throat that should have stagger
LYRA POV "How many," I said."Twenty. Maybe more." Gideon didn't lower his voice, but he didn't raise it either — flat, professional, the tone of a man doing math instead of panicking. "Coming up the slope in three groups. Spread wide."Kael was already moving, pulling Elijah and Rafael back from the ridge with two hard gestures, no words needed. The Enforcers fanned out along the rock line without being told, taking cover behind the same shelf of stone that had hidden us from the basin below.I looked at the narrow gap in the rock face. Then at the slope behind us, where shapes had started breaking free of the treeline, moving with the kind of coordination that didn't belong to animals or accident."We're boxed," I said."We're boxed," Aelindra agreed. She hadn't moved from the stone entrance, palm still hovering an inch from it like she expected it to change its mind."Can you open it," Kael said, dropping into a crouch beside her."I don't know what it's locked with.""The
CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREEKAEL"Stop."Aelindra's arm shot out, catching Gideon across the chest before he cleared the ridgeline.He stopped. Everyone did, the whole line freezing mid-step the way trained people freeze when someone with more information than them says one word with that much certainty behind it."What," I said.She didn't answer right away. She'd gone still in the specific way she went still before she touched something — a door, a wall, a piece of ground that told her more than it told the rest of us."Down," she said. "Everyone down. Now."We dropped. I pulled Lyra with me behind a shelf of grey rock, close enough that I felt her pulse jump against my forearm where it pressed to her back."What did you see," Lyra whispered."Nothing," Aelindra said, crouched beside us. "That's the problem."I looked over the rock ledge.Below us, the ground opened into a wide basin ringed by the same broken stone that had carried us the last ten miles — and at the center of it, half-swa
LYRA POV"You're limping.""I'm not limping.""You are. Left side. Since we crossed the ridge." Kael didn't slow down to make the point, just said it while he walked, which somehow made it land harder than if he'd stopped."It's nothing.""Show me at the next break."I didn't answer that, which he correctly read as agreement rather than refusal.We'd been walking since before dawn, the lodge already an hour behind us, Aelindra setting a pace at the front of the group that none of the trained Enforcers seemed to find easy either. Sixty miles, she'd said. She hadn't said how many of them were uphill.The terrain had changed twice already — forest, then open scrubland, now something rockier, older, ground that felt like it hadn't been walked in a long time except by whatever animals still lived out here undisturbed.No roads. No trails, even, not really. Aelindra moved like she was following something the rest of us couldn't see, occasionally stopping to press her palm flat against a bou
~ LYRA ~Breakfast was a quiet affair.I sat across from Kael in the dining hall. The table was long enough to seat fifty people, but it was just the two of us. The high ceilings and stone walls amplified every sound—the scrape of cutlery, the clink of glasses."You did well today," Kael said, not
CHAPTER SIX~ KAEL ~I watched her sleep.It wasn't something I usually did. I didn't linger, I didn't hesitate. I moved, I struck, and I left.But Lyra Hale was different.She was curled up on the guest bed, buried under the grey duvet. Her breathing was even now, but her hands were still clenched
~LYRA~The adrenaline crash was brutal.My legs finally gave out when we got back to the penthouse. Kael didn't say a word. He just scooped me up, carried me past the dark living room, and set me down on the guest bed."Don't move," he said."I can't," I whispered.He left the room and came back wi
~ LYRA ~Ten minutes.That was all the time I had to pack my life into a bag. Not that I had much of a life left to pack.I threw the few clothes Kael had bought me into a duffel bag—jeans, t-shirts, a thick sweater. I grabbed the toiletries from the bathroom counter. My hands were shaking so bad I






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