로그인AURORANobody spoke.Not because there was nothing to say.Because nobody knew what to say after that.Every time he lost control, people died.The words settled over the clearing like a curse.I looked at Lucien.Really looked at him.Not the army behind him.Not the resemblance we shared.Not the strange connection twisting inside my chest every time I looked at him.Just him.He stood motionless beyond the border, his expression unreadable.No guilt.No anger.No shame.Nothing.That bothered me more than if he had laughed.Because if someone accused me of killing innocent people, I would react.I would deny it.Defend myself.Feel something.Lucien just stood there.Like he'd heard the story so many times it no longer meant anything.The realization made my stomach turn.My mother was staring at him too.Not with hatred.That would've been easier to understand.What I saw in her eyes was heartbreak.The kind that never really heals.The kind people carry for decades."You promised
AURORAThe silence that followed felt suffocating.You wanted me.The words hung in the air between them, sharp enough to cut.I looked at the woman standing in front of me.My mother.Or at least the woman claiming to be my mother.She hadn't moved.She hadn't denied it.She hadn't immediately shouted that he was lying.And somehow that hurt more than if she had.The man saw it too.I watched satisfaction flicker across his face.Not because he'd hurt me.Because he'd hurt her.The realization unsettled me.This wasn't about me.Not really.At least not entirely.This wound existed long before I was born.Long before wolves.Long before the Hollow Lands.Long before any of this.The man folded his arms across his chest.For the first time since arriving, he seemed completely relaxed.Like he'd stepped onto familiar ground.Like he'd finally reached a conversation he'd been waiting years to have."Tell her."His voice wasn't loud.It didn't need to be.The woman flinched.Only slightl
AURORAThe pain hit so suddenly that my knees almost gave out beneath me.It wasn't physical.Not exactly.Nothing was cutting me. Nothing was attacking me.Yet it felt like something inside my chest had been grabbed by an invisible hand and squeezed.Hard."Aurora."Draven's voice sounded distant.I felt his hand tighten around my arm.Felt Darius step closer.But neither of them could stop what was happening.Because whatever this was...It was coming from the bond.No.Not the bond.Something deeper.Something older.The figure continued walking through the mist.Slowly.Deliberately.The army behind him remained completely still.Thousands of soldiers standing in absolute silence.Watching.Waiting.The sight should have felt impossible.Armies weren't silent.Not armies this large.There should have been movement.Conversation.The sound of armor shifting.The nervous energy that always existed before a battle.Instead there was nothing.Just silence.And the approaching figure.
AURORAThe horn echoed across the Hollow Lands. The sound was unlike anything I had ever heard before.It wasn't loud in the traditional sense. It didn't shake the ground or split the sky. Instead, it seemed to vibrate inside my chest.It sounded deep, ancient, and wrong. The moment it sounded, every horse behind us reacted.Several reared violently. One nearly threw its rider. Even the wolves looked unsettled.The woman standing across the border had gone completely still.For the first time since we'd met her, the calm certainty she'd been carrying cracked.Real fear flashed across her face. Not concern or caution but fear. My stomach tightened immediately.Because if this frightened her, then whatever was coming was worse than I imagined."They found us."The words had barely left her mouth when movement appeared behind her.At first, I thought it was the mist, then I realized the mist wasn't moving. Something was walking through it.Dozens of shadows emerged between the twisted t
AURORANobody spoke for several seconds after her warning.The army.The war.The mysterious person leading it.The words settled heavily over the clearing, mixing with the unease already hanging in the air.But strangely that wasn’t what I was thinking about.Not anymore.Because something else she had said kept replaying inside my head.You had a twin.The wrong child survived.The words wouldn’t leave me alone.They sat there, scratching at the back of my mind, demanding attention.For years I had accepted my life as it was.I accepted that my mother disappeared.I accepted that my father never talked about her.I accepted that there were simply parts of our family history nobody discussed.Now I was standing at the edge of the Hollow Lands discovering that apparently half my life had been built on secrets.The realization made me angry.Not the explosive kind of anger.Something colder.Something deeper.I looked directly at the woman.“My father knew.”It wasn’t a question.The w
AURORAThe wrong child survived.The words echoed inside my head long after she stopped speaking.For a moment, I genuinely thought I had heard her wrong.The wind moved through the dead trees behind her, carrying strange whispers through the Hollow Lands. Somewhere in the distance, something cried out. The sound was distant enough to be ignored, yet unsettling enough to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.But none of that mattered.Not when I was staring at the woman who might be my mother.Not when she’d just told me that I wasn’t supposed to survive.My mouth felt dry.“What does that mean?”The question came out quieter than I intended.The woman lowered her eyes briefly.Not in shame.More like exhaustion.Like she was remembering something she wished she could forget.The sight only made me angrier.Because I was tired of everyone carrying secrets while I was left stumbling blindly through the consequences.“What does that mean?” I repeated.This time my voice was st
DARIUSThe alarm bell rang through the halls like a warning from hell.I pushed Luna off me. She had been trying unsuccessfully to get me to touch her but I just lay on the bed as she sucked me off. The moment she straddled me, the bell went off, and I silently heaved a sigh of relief. Ever since
DRAVENI paced around restlessly in the meeting room. Everyone had probably gone to bed but I couldn't stop thinking about a certain vixen who wouldn't stop bugging my mind. The familiar scent of two she-wolves reached me before they opened the door and stepped inside. I turned to see Lyra and Sel
DRAVENI couldn't sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Rory on her knees with tears on her face and that damn bruise on her knees.I had seen punishment before. I’d punished people myself. But the sight of her like that… It made something in me go cold.Luna had no right. I didn't care that sh
AURORAThe moment Darius left, I broke down completely. I didn’t try to be strong or pretend to feel numb. The tears came fast and hard, tearing out of my chest like they had been waiting for permission.I curled into myself on the floor and cried until my throat burned and my chest hurt.What hur







