He was the Alpha King. Savage. Unforgiving. Untouchable. She was the omega who once scarred him—and vanished. Twelve years ago, Freya, a rare female omega, dared to sink her claws into the future Alpha King, Ragnar Thorne, branding his flesh and haunting his pride. He swore vengeance that night—and when she disappeared, he swore he’d find her—one day. Twelve years later a masked woman arrives and walks straight into his arms. Bold. Defiant. Unbending. Freya has lived in the shadows, hiding her true nature and history. But her return isn't by accident. She has her secrets… and her reasons for walking straight into the lion’s den. Ragnar’s hate would turn into an obsession that will spiral into something dark, primal, and uncontrollable, and then the past claws its way back.
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Freya breathed in sharply as she launched the dagger with accurate precision, causing it to cut through the air with the sound of a whoosh as it pierced into the tree right in the middle of the mark making a springy noise as its handle vibrated for a couple of seconds before stilling in place.
The girl straightened as she glared at her aim. It was at least two to three centimeters to the left, which made her jaw tick.
Freya was just 12 years old but she was angry at herself for not hitting the dagger right in the middle. She wanted perfection. Yanking out her beautifully carved silver dagger from the tree she walked back to her spot, this time she stepped a little further away from her usual spot and focused on the mark on the tree.
Freya was all alone in the woods. This place was her hidden spot, which no one knew about. No one ever dared to wander this far in the woods so it was her safe place, or so she thought.
Breathing in deeply, she raised her hand and was about to launch the dagger again when, all of a sudden, goosebumps rose on her flesh as she heard rustling nearby. This place was so securely hidden that she was sure no one would ever find this; it could be a wild animal.
Freya faced in the direction from which the noise came. Her senses were on full alert as she launched the dagger in the direction from which the noise came.
A couple of seconds passed, and the air was still but there was something eerily different in the surroundings, something darker. And then it hit her like a zap of lightning.
The strong scent in the air. It was an Alpha. But not just any Alpha. The air seemed to quiver with his dominant presence, and just like that, a boy who was close to 15-16 years of age appeared through the woods. It wasn't his presence that startled her. It was those glaciers of cold blue eyes glaring at her that unsettled her, and that wasn't even the end of it. He was holding the sharp blade of her dagger between his two fingers. There was no blood on him, no cut, nothing. Her blade didn't even cut him. But it was made of silver, and it was burning him as he held the hilt of it.
Freya was sure that he didn't see that coming then how could he react so fast and stop the attack with zero injuries.
She flinched visibly when he made a tsk sound. Freya instantly recalled her mother's wise words to stay miles away from Alphas.
"An Omega," His voice was deeper than the deep sea and it was rich with dominance. It was unlikely for a teen of his age to have that deep voice and all those muscles. He looked strong. Bigger than most of the alphas his age.
It was clear that he was surprised by her presence in the woods.
"You shouldn't be out here all alone," He said darkly expecting the little girl with silver ash hair to flinch or probably run away. She had unique hair, he hasn't seen such hair before, instead of running away she stepped towards him. Raising her palm in front of him, she demanded. "My dagger," Her voice sharp and void of any fear which took him by surprise.
"Mind your tone, little one," he growled lowly as the girl flinched back. Her heart thumped wildly, but she remained cold.
Fearless.
"My dagger!" Her voice was cold as she jutted her chin in the direction of her palm.
Defiance danced through her fierce green eyes as he grabbed her jaw rather roughly with his free hand and yanked her to him.
She didn't rest her hand on his chest to steady herself, though he pulled her roughly, but her balance was good as she steadied herself, glaring back at him with equal fervor.
"Aren't you scared?" His deep voice was deadly calm. The small hair on her skin quivered because of his alpha authority, but she refused to back off. Despite his hold on her jaw, she still jutted her chin out in defiance and uttered a single word.
"No," Her voice was calm and her face was blank, causing him to smirk darkly. He twisted the dagger in his free hand, twirled it as if it were his favorite toy, and pressed it against her throat.
"Respect me," He said dangerously. The dagger slightly burned her skin.
"Earn it!" She gritted, glaring up at him.
For the first time in his 16 years of life. Ragnar was rendered utterly speechless. He was stunned by this little she-wolf omega who wasn't acting like an omega at all. She had piqued his interest.
Ragnar pressed the dagger to her throat, expecting to see fear in her eyes, but the girl was calm.
"Didn't your mom teach you how to be submissive like an omega?" He asked coldly.
"Didn't your father teach you how to behave with girls?" She countered back, and his jaw ticked. His smirk disappeared. Now she was getting on his nerves.
"You have got a sharp little tongue, don't you?" He hissed as the girl inhaled sharply.
"I do," She agreed and yet again he was baffled by her. How old was she? 11-12? And she had the nerve to talk to him like that...
"If you're done, give me my dagger?" She demanded yet again, though she was in his hold but she was fearless.
"Take it-" The words barely left his lips when the girl charged forward. She abruptly jerked down, freeing herself from his hold, and the next thing she jumped on him with her legs on his shoulders, and she elbowed his head. He raised the dagger to hit her, but she swiveled on top of him, so now she sat on his shoulders while covering his eyes with her hands.
She poked both of his eyes, making him scream as the dagger fell from his hand, and he winced, holding his eyes. The girl jumped off him, grabbed her dagger from the ground, and made a run for her life. She barely ran a few steps when he grabbed her nape, and she was yanked back and slammed on the rough ground.
The fall was so brutal that it knocked the breath out of her lungs. She grabbed her elbow, which felt as if it had fractured.
Before she could gather her bearings, the boy grabbed her throat in an attempt to punish her. Just when he began to choke her, Freya swung her dagger, causing him to move back.
He expected her to run, but she charged at him. She hit his calf with all her might, causing him to fall on his knee, but Ragnar grabbed her wrist, yanking her down to her knees, and before he could tackle her, she swung the dagger, and a sharp pain exploded in his face.
He growled in pain, pressing his hand on the wound as he glared at her with his good eye, only to notice fear on her face for the very first time. Seeing his blood might've done something to her because the next thing she was sprinting for her life.
Ranger let out a throaty laugh, which sounded maniacal as he pulled to his feet chasing after her.
Wounded.
Outrageous.
Curious.
... But he never found her.
The ball ended not with music, but with a silence so sharp it cut like a blade.The last chords had died beneath the vaulted ceiling hours ago, yet tension lingered, clinging to the stone walls like smoke after a fire. Every step Freya had taken through that hall had been shadowed by whispers, thin and venomous, curling in the corners where wolves gathered in knots of silk and steel. Only Ragnar’s presence, his looming, unbending aura, had kept the hungriest predators at bay.Now the alphas were gone, their laughter brittle as glass, their polished smiles thin masks stretched over teeth. As the great doors slammed shut and the echoes faded, the castle itself seemed to exhale. Chandeliers still dripped with wax, goblets lay overturned on marble steps, and servants moved like hushed ghosts as they wiped wine the color of blood from the floor.But peace did not come.“Ragnar.”The voice struck like an arrow.Sharp. Cold. Commanding.At the edge of the dais stood his mother. Midnight silk
The chandeliers burned brighter than stars, their crystal arms dripping with candlelight that fractured into a thousand shards across the polished marble floors. Every spark of light danced like fire caught in glass, dazzling, blinding. Music swelled from the far end of the grand hall, violins and harps entwining in a melody spun with elegance, though beneath its sweetness pulsed an undercurrent sharp as a blade.The royal ball had begun.Freya entered at Ragnar’s side, her every step echoing like a declaration carved into stone. The gown clinging to her was not cloth but night itself, shadows stitched with silver embroidery that shimmered each time she moved. The air shifted around her, thick with attention. She had never felt so seen, and yet so dissected, as though each gaze sought to unravel her flame and measure its worth.The sea of dominant alphas turned toward her. Some watched with reverence, awe softening their predatory stares. Others cloaked suspicion in smiles, while more
The moon hung pale and thin above the castle, its light spilling like milk through the carved arches of the royal balcony. Freya stood alone in its glow, the night pressing against her like a second skin. Her silver hair shimmered as though spun from the moon itself, strands shifting with the wind that carried whispers from the forest below.But the silence of the castle was a lie. She could feel the weight of it, the listening walls, the watching shadows. Whispers threaded through the stone like smoke, voices too soft to catch yet too persistent to ignore. They always circled back to her flame. To her curse. To the prophecy that haunted her every breath.Her chest ached with the phantom sting of an old wound, a cut not made of flesh but of fate. The words that had chased her since childhood echoed in her bones: Betrayal will come not from your enemies, but from the one you trust most.She turned the thought over and over in her mind like a blade in her palm, sharp enough to draw bloo
The journey down from the mountain was heavy, not with silence but with weight. Each step Ragnar’s horse carried them closer to the castle, the air thickened with questions that clung like smoke. Freya sat pressed against him in the saddle, her body still bruised, her flame restless beneath her skin, humming like a caged storm. Every breath she took made the air shimmer faintly, heat leaking from her veins into the world around her.When the gates of the castle loomed, their iron teeth stretched wide, the guards stiffened as if the air itself pressed against their lungs. They bowed to Ragnar, but their eyes slid warily to Freya, lingering too long, too sharp, as though watching not a girl but a weapon.She felt it. The mistrust. The fear. The way whispers followed her steps like shadows.Inside the great hall, the throne room’s fire pits flickered low, casting long waves of flame across the cold stone. It should have felt familiar, but it didn’t. To Freya, it was a cage made of memory
Kyla’s cottage smelled of smoke and dried herbs, a herb-scented sanctuary hewn out of the mountain’s ribcage. Bunches of roots and bundles of sage swung from low rafters, catching the weak light and throwing crooked shadows across the stone. The hearth breathed a thin, steady glow, its embers a white-gold, as if the room itself tried to warm something that had burned raw.Ragnar carried Freya across the threshold like a relic: careful, reverent, hands iron but gentle. Ash dusted her hair; a crimson smear stained the corner of her mouth. Up close, she was too warm, an inner heat humming under her skin that no poultice could wholly quell. She smelled of smoke and iron and something softer beneath it, a faint memory of rain against hot stone.Kyla moved with the slow certainty of someone who had mended worse wounds. Her fingers were steady as she laid warm poultices of crushed shadow-herbs against Freya’s scorched skin. Nyra worked the edges of the fever with quiet incantations, her brea
The silence after Skyrana’s death was suffocating.Not the silence of peace, but the silence of a mountain that had just borne witness to a god’s unraveling. The Chamber of Echoes, once thrumming with whispers of the dead, lay hollow. No voices. No curses. Only the thunder of Freya’s heartbeat in her ears, louder than the settling of stone and the hiss of molten veins running through fractured rock.Her fingers still clutched the Sword of Flame. It pulsed faintly, its fire no longer scorching, no longer something she borrowed, it was hers. It hummed in time with her blood, as natural and inevitable as breath. Less a weapon now, more an extension of herself.The silence pressed closer. Heavy. Watchful.“Freya!”Ragnar’s voice tore through it.She turned, sluggish, just as he came into view, racing down the fractured stone steps, his figure a blur of silver and shadow. Dust streaked his dark hair, blood traced a sharp line from his temple, and yet he didn’t falter. He didn’t slow. Not f
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