MasukLouis’s POV….The wind carried the scent of iron and ash long before the horns were sounded.War always announced itself like that—quietly at first. A tightening in the chest. A heaviness in the air. The wolves felt it before the mind could name it.I stood at the edge of the training grounds, my daughter pressed against my chest, her tiny breaths warm through the fabric of my cloak. Little Aria slept peacefully, unaware that the world she had been born into was about to burn.I envied her.Around me, warriors moved with grim purpose—checking blades, fastening armor, tightening straps with hands that did not tremble even though their eyes sometimes did. These were my people. My pack. Survivors of fire and loss.Many of them had lost everything already.Their homes. Their mates. Their children.And yet they stood.I lifted my chin and stepped forward.The murmur died instantly.They turned to me—every single one of them. Wolves who had followed me after my mate died, after our pack bur
Damien’s POV….The air before war always felt heavier than the battle itself.It clung to the lungs. Sat on the shoulders. Made every breath deliberate.I stood at the front of my troops as the last of the safe-pack convoys vanished beyond the wards. The land beneath my boots trembled faintly, a constant reminder that the world itself was being wounded somewhere far beyond our sight.My warriors stood in perfect formation—rows upon rows of hardened fighters, armor strapped tight, blades sharpened until they gleamed like slivers of moonlight. Some were veterans, scars crisscrossing their skin like maps of past wars. Others were young—barely blooded—but their eyes burned with the same fire.None of them wavered.They knew what waited beyond the horizon.Death. Darkness. Or victory bought with blood.I drew a slow breath and stepped forward.Silence fell immediately.Every eye locked on me.I felt the weight of it then—not fear, not doubt—but responsibility. These wolves had sworn their
Aria’s POVThe world was bleeding.I felt it before anyone spoke a word—before the alarms rang, before the warriors shouted orders, before the ground trembled hard enough to send cracks through stone.It was like a slow siphoning beneath my skin.As if something vast and merciless had sunk its claws into the bones of the earth and was drinking.I pressed my palm to my chest, breath hitching as the air around me grew heavy, charged with wrongness. Magic—wild, ancient magic—was being torn away from the land. I could feel ley lines screaming, their energy unraveling like frayed thread.“The ritual…” I whispered.Selene stirred uneasily inside me.Yes, she said grimly. He has begun.Outside, chaos erupted.Horns blared—low and urgent—echoing through the pack lands. Warriors poured into the open, armor clanking, weapons flashing as they took formation with the precision of those who had trained their whole lives for this moment.For war.I straightened, forcing my fear down. I couldn’t aff
Evil King’s POV…The moon screamed.Not in sound—but in color.Perfect night to take over the world and become king of all the world.It split the sky with a wound of crimson, bleeding light across the heavens as the first sigil ignited beneath my feet. The mountain trembled, ancient stone groaning like a dying beast. I inhaled deeply, savoring the taste of it—fear, power, inevitability.At last.The ritual had begun.I raised my arms, and the runes carved into my flesh answered, burning bright as molten iron. The ground cracked open in obedient agony, veins of black fire snaking outward in every direction, racing toward the horizon like starving serpents.“Awaken,” I commanded.The underworld stirred.Far beneath the surface, something old—older than packs, older than gods—shifted in its sleep. Chains forged from forgotten prayers snapped one by one. I felt them break. Felt the pressure ease.The seal was weakening.Good.The earth screamed as the first rift tore open.It wasn’t dram
The Evil King’s POV…..The fire never truly warmed the throne room.It only illuminated it.Black flames curled along the obsidian walls, licking ancient runes carved deep into stone older than kingdoms. The air tasted of iron and incense, of blood soaked into the bones of the mountain itself. This place was alive—aware of me, of my will. It breathed when I breathed. It listened when I spoke.I sat upon the throne carved from the spine of a long-dead god, fingers resting idly against its arm as the echoes of distant chanting filtered through the corridors below.Preparation.Always preparation.War was not won with claws and steel alone. It was won long before the first howl echoed across the fields.“Come forward,” I said softly.Footsteps approached.Measured. Careful.Serena emerged from the shadows like a blade drawn slowly from its sheath. Her hair was pulled back tightly, silver eyes sharp but restless. There was blood on her boots—fresh. She had been busy.She knelt.Not out of
Aria’s POV…Sleep took me like a thief.Not gently.Not kindly.One moment I was wrapped in darkness, Kaelen’s presence lingering like warmth against my spine even though he wasn’t beside me—and the next, the world fell away.I gasped.Air rushed into my lungs, sharp and cold, burning as though I’d been underwater too long.I stood barefoot on stone.Ancient stone.A vast circular platform stretched beneath my feet, etched with runes that glowed faintly white and gold, pulsing in rhythm with my heartbeat. Above me, the sky was not a sky at all—just a swirling void of silver clouds and fractured starlight, as if the heavens themselves were split open.I knew instantly.This wasn’t a dream.This was a summons.“Selene?” I whispered.My wolf stirred inside me, uneasy but present. Careful, she murmured. This place listens.The air shifted.Power rolled across the platform like a tide, forcing me to brace myself. My hair lifted, white strands floating as though gravity had loosened its hol







