Mag-log inAurora’s POVAt her words, I nodded emphatically, even though unease roiled in me“I am,” my voice went hoarse. “I have no choice in the matter anyway.”“You do,”Elder Miriam tilted her head towards the door. “You could run. You could wait for the next generation to do what you could not. You could pretend it doesn't exist after all.”I turned and saw Sylvia standing at the doorway, her face turning even more ashen as our eyes met.She looked away first, biting her lower lip.“If I do, others die,” I said, turning back to look into my teacup. I picked it up, and the warmth spread through my fingers. “Even if I run, my son will bear the brunt. My grandchildren too. It may spell the end of my bloodline, and I cannot allow that.”“So you fight,” Elder Miriam nodded.“Will you help me?” I asked, my voice smaller.“To fight, I cannot. But I can help you figure out where to aim your claws,” She tapped her teacup and rose to her feet. “You, standing there like a puppet. Are you not ready to
Aurora’s POVThe weight in my chest seemed to increase further and further.I had not yet fully digested everything that happened. From meditation to having to kill Rosalie, rescue my son, and then, this.The memories of my childhood had fully returned. And I had yet to process them. But instinctively, I knew one thing I had to do: to kill Asura.Before I wouldn’t have been so insistent, but now I knew the truth.Because Asura had been the reason my parents had forcibly put me in hiding, placed those binds on me, and worked to save me from the mire.The Royal family’s decline? All connected to that entity. And so, I knew somehow that this was my fate. I had to deal with Asura or die trying.This had everything to do with my bloodline and for that very reason, I was stuck in this.After leaving the study, I only had enough time to take a shower and check on Asher. The events of the day had left a bit of a mark on him and I saw him for the first time in ages, laying still on the carpet,
Alaric’s POVI watched until the last second that Rosalie’s life was finally extinguished. It felt like a weight had finally been lifted off my chest.Aurora fell silent, and the hall seemed to be in a standstill.Our men stood aside, their breaths barely audible.Then suddenly Aurora turned and said, “it’s done. Finally.”Even in my wolf form, there was a stirring of satisfaction that mirrored the look in her eyes.It wasn't due to cruelty. It was due to the fact that the nightmare both of us had been through was finally over.Finally,But suddenly her head snapped up and she whirled around, I didn't understand for a second.“It’s leaving,” she whispered, and I tilted my head in confusion.What was leaving?However I was soon shown exactly what.The sight of Rosalie’s body suddenly trembling, crumbling into dark ash, and a black smoke rushing out with a speed that I nearly missed.Aurora’s hands formed a symbol and she rushed to catch it. Silver chains woven into a wide net descende
Aurora’s POVBefore any more words could be exchanged, I lashed with a wave of my power, strengthened by the Blood Moon’s pure energy.Rosalie Blackwood’s barrier faced another onslaught, leaving holes in the barrier that were slow to fix themselves.She was not as strong as I ever could be. Even in my bound state, I was much more powerful.I wanted to laugh in her face, and I wanted, even more so, to laugh at my past self. In my past life this was the same woman I feared, fretting about like an ant on a hot pan thinking that one move from her could destroy everything I worked hard to build.Only now, I could see the truth.She had nothing, and she WAS nothing.Me? I was a Luna, born with a true Luna’s essence, and by blood, a royal descendant.Even in her most powerful state, she could never have hoped to match up to me.“Alaric,” I yelled his name, signalling him to move once my blows against the barrier intensified. I felt the heat in my body intensify so much that it made my scalp
Rosali Blackwood’s POVI had been lucky to get a chance to escape. If not for my remembering the Blood Moon was upon us, or feeling the strength of that pure energy that made my appetite rise, I wouldn't have gotten the energy to even leave the prison.I heard it from the prison guards that I was going to be executed today.At first I did not believe it. I had hated the idea of my schemes being turned around. I had blood oaths binding this pack’s leader to me.No one in this pack, with him as the Alpha and under my thumb, should have been able to touch me.Why did I have to die? Unless…When I checked the status of the blood oath, I felt a wave of backlash that nearly had me spitting blood.It was gone.The blood oath signed by Alaric without his knowledge. Gone. Even the one signed willingly by the rogue leader Zephyr. Also vanished into thin air, burned through by some invisible force.No.They were all turning against me.WHY did they have to all turn against me?The air in the ha
Aurora’s POVUpon returning to the guest bedroom which was now more mine than ever, I closed the door and felt my chest ache with the sound.Meeting Alaric of this life was complicated when I was reborn. But it wasn’t the same as meeting Alaric with memories of the past life and what he did to me. That cut was far deeper, and our bonds were more tainted.However, this too brought me some measure of relief.I had long felt the ache from the last life’s actions, that it couldn’t be explained to Alaric of this life no matter how much I forced myself to try.This time I didn't need to explain anything, because he already understood.‘Does this change anything?’ Amber asked through the mindlink. ‘Would you have agreed to stay if it had been THIS Alaric that asked?’I pressed my lips together.‘There's no time to think about that,’ I said, glancing around the room. ‘Only to move forward.’So, in the best way I knew how, I did my best to do just that.Whether this would make it difficult for
Alaric's POV My brows were furrowed into a thin line as I listened to the report from Beta Declan. Too much was going wrong. I could feel it deep within. When did it start? Was it the rogues that camped in several factions outside our borders all across the regions, or was it before then? “Anyo
Aurora’s POVWhat I didn't expect to walk into when I got home, was the frantic chaos.“What happened?” I demanded, grabbing hold of a passing maid. She paled upon seeing me, then bowed, panting.“Luna,” she said with obvious trepidation. “The young master ate something bad. He’s been throwing up
Seraphina’s POVThe lights in the rogue camp were still brightly lit. EVERYONE was on edge, the sounds filled only by the barrier I had put up in Zephyr’s tent.“What now?” I heard the team leader for one of the camps in the northwestern parts of the region say. Apart from Zephyr and I, only two of
Seraphina’s POV I was trapped. Cornered. By HER. For a brief second, I felt a sharp spike of anxiousness. It shouldn't have been this way. Even in the face of such a little bit of that Luna essence, Asura was restless. I found my heart had grown numb, but the pain of fire through my veins







