FAZER LOGINJaxon's POV I raised my left hand, snapping my fingers.Kaelen stepped into the light of the grand hall, carrying a heavy, iron-bound chest. He threw it onto the marble floor at the foot of the Council's dais. The latch burst open, spilling dozens of encrypted parchment scrolls, magical recording crystals, and blood-stamped ledgers across the floor for all three thousand attendees to see."Look at your honorable elders!" Kaelen’s voice echoed over the audio arrays, broadcasting straight into every packhouse across the continent. "Look at the records of the High Council! For three years, Elder Tobias and his cabal secretly funded Vivienne’s rogue syndicate in the South! They orchestrated the fake marriage treaty, supplied Alpha Vance with dragon-venom, and deliberately started a border war to thin the ranks of our common warriors!"The grand hall erupted into in
Jaxon’s POVThe ancient iron doors of the High Citadel didn't just open. They buckled under the weight of an empire reborn.Four hours after the blood moon faded into the cold gray light of dawn, the grand hall of the Northern Coalition was filled with wine, laughter, and the sickening stench of arrogant triumph. The eleven surviving elders of the High Council sat atop their raised stone dais, surrounded by regional Alpha envoys, sipping golden mead from gilded goblets as they celebrated the presumed death of the Tyrant and the execution of his stray Omega.I stood in the shadows of the outer foyer, wrapped in a heavy velvet cloak of deep obsidian, my broad shoulders filling the arched doorway. Beside me stood Rhea.She wore no torn silks or rags today. She was clad in custom-forged midnight-black plate armor, polished to a mirror shine, with a silver silk cape traili
Rhea's POV I dropped onto his chest, burying my face into the crook of his cold neck.I stopped fighting. I dropped every wall, every guard, every fear, and every lingering shred of self-preservation I had built up since the day I was thrown into the gutter. I threw my mind wide open to the heavens, reaching out into the dark, silent cosmic void where the Moon Goddess watched over her broken children.‘“Moon Goddess...”’ I wept into the ether, my soul crying out in a voice that shook the spiritual planes. ‘“Take my pride! Take my blood! Take everything I am! Just give me back my Alpha!”’I pressed my exposed scent gland directly against his cold, black-stained cheek.‘WHOOSH.’A blinding explosion of pure, radiant light detonated from the back of my neck.It wasn't just a scent, it was an atmospheric wave of concentrated, sweet vanilla, ozone, and silver rain, so potent and so pure
Rhea’s POVThe silence inside my chest was worse than the sound of the exploding compound.It was a vast, freezing void. The golden fire of our mate-bond hadn't just faded, it had gone completely pitch-black. Where Jaxon’s deep, possessive, roaring soul had lived only seconds ago, there was nothing left but an agonizing, hollow frost that felt like liquid ice running through my veins."HE HAS NO PULSE!" I screamed, my voice breaking into a ragged, desperate shriek that echoed off the steel walls of the speeding armored truck.The heavy transport bounced violently as Kaelen slammed his boots onto the accelerator, hurtling through the burning pine valley at breakneck speed. The roar of the engine and the distant rumble of collapsing mountains sounded like background noise compared to the violent pounding of my own terrorized heart."Kaelen, do something!" I begged, droppi
Jaxon’s POVThe air moved half a second too slow.I saw Vance bursting from the rubble of the shattered altar, his bloodied face a grotesque mask of terminal, suicidal spite, the green-glowing silver dagger aimed straight for the center of Rhea’s back.My inner wolf didn't calculate the risk. It didn't measure the poison. There was no thought, no hesitation, no self-preservation left in my soul. There was only her."RHEA!" I roared.I shoved her forward with every remaining ounce of my strength, my broad hands slamming into her shoulders to clear her from the blade's path. I twisted my own body into the gap, throwing my shoulder directly into the trajectory of Vance's strike.‘THWACK.’The seven-inch jagged blade sank deep into my right collarbone, burying itself up to the hilt into muscle, bone, and flesh."JAXON!" Rhea screamed, her voice cracking as she tumbled across th
Rhea's POV Using the sudden distraction, Jaxon didn't just drop Alpha Vance, he hurled Vance’s eight-hundred-pound body like a siege stone directly into the central pillar holding up the eastern balcony wall.‘BOOM!’The granite archway collapsed in a mountain of falling stone, taking four executioners down with it.I didn't wait for the dust to clear. I scooped up the dead executioner's silver broadsword from his belt, spinning on my heel as two Bloodhound pack guards lunged at me from the shadows of the courtyard.The first guard swung a broad axe toward my head. I ducked beneath the heavy blade, sliding across the wet flagstones, and drove my silver knife deep into the soft leather beneath his kneecap. He screamed, dropping to one knee, and I brought the broadsword around, decapitating him before his body hit the floor.The second guard backed away in terror, but Jaxon







