登入Kaelira’s POVSomeone is watching. Seraphine’s final words lingered long after the gates closed behind her.The courtyard had emptied hours ago.The crowd dispersed. The warriors returned to their posts. The council retreated to argue about politics.Life continued.As if Ironfang hadn’t nearly destroyed itself.As if the last few months hadn’t rewritten everything.I stood on the balcony overlooking the settlement.The sun was beginning to rise. The village below was slowly waking. Smoke curled from chimneys. Children ran between houses. Merchants prepared stalls.Ordinary life.Simple.Fragile.Worth protecting.The door behind me opened.I didn’t need the bond to know who it was.Though it reacted anyway.The Lycan stepped onto the balcony.For a moment neither of us spoke.The silence felt easy.Comfortable.Something I never thought I’d have.“You should sleep.”I glanced at him.“You sound like Laura.”“I’ve been told that’s an insult.”“It is.”His mouth twitched.Close enough
Seraphine’s POVThe chains didn’t hurt anymore. Maybe because there was nothing left worth feeling. The guards walked ahead of me in silence.No one spoke. No one looked at me.The same wolves who once bowed their heads when I passed now treated me like a shadow.Like a ghost already halfway gone.I had spent years fighting to be seen.Now everyone could see me.And nobody wanted to. The corridor stretched ahead.Stone.Torchlight.Silence.The familiar walls of Ironfang felt different now.Smaller, colder and foreign. I used to imagine walking these halls as Luna.I knew exactly where I would stand.What I would wear. How they would look at me. How they would finally understand. How they would finally know I belonged here.Instead, I was leaving in chains.The irony almost made me laugh.One guard opened a heavy door.Cold air rushed inside.Night had fallen. The moon hung above the mountains.Everything always came back to the moon.To her.Kaelira.The guards continued walking.I
Lycan’s POVThe council chamber should have been quiet. Seraphine had been taken away. The forbidden remnants had been destroyed.Darius had stepped down. Everything should have settled.Instead, the entire hall felt like a storm waiting for permission to break.Nobody moved. Nobody seemed entirely sure what happened next. Then the first scream came from outside.Every warrior in the room immediately turned.Another followed.Then a third.Laura swore. Lucian was already moving.“North entrance!”The chamber exploded into motion.Warriors rushed toward the exits.The elders were escorted away.The fragile calm shattered instantly. I caught Kaelira’s arm before she could move. Her eyes met mine.“We’re not done.”No.We weren’t.The remnants of Seraphine’s followers had chosen their moment.Cowards.The moment leadership shifted. The moment the pack stood vulnerable. The moment confusion still lingered.Predictable and dangerous. “We go together,” I said.She didn’t argue.That alone
Darius POV“If I can’t have it…”Dark energy exploded through the council chamber.The floor beneath Seraphine cracked. Ancient symbols burned across the stone. Several warriors were thrown backward. One slammed into a pillar hard enough to shatter wood.Shouts erupted immediately.“Get everyone back!”“Move!”“Protect the elders!”The room descended into chaos.But my eyes never left Seraphine. For a moment, she didn’t look like the woman I had known. She looked like someone standing on the edge of a cliff, already halfway over.And somehow…That terrified me more than the magic.Kaelira stepped forward.The Lycan Commander immediately caught her arm.“No.”She looked at him.“If I don’t stop this!”“You won’t do it alone.”The words came out sharp.Several people noticed.Neither of them seemed to care.The darkness around Seraphine grew stronger. The Keeper’s face had gone pale.“That power shouldn’t exist anymore.”Laura appeared beside her.“What exactly are we looking at?”“Remn
Kaelira’s POVThe Keeper’s words lingered long after the memory vanished.Nobody spoke. Nobody seemed capable of speaking.The gathering hall felt frozen beneath the weight of what everyone had just witnessed.Lord Cedric had not ordered the massacre. Alpha Magnus did. Stood beside him, helping him and had been Seraphine’s mother.The revelation had torn through every version of history Ironfang believed. Whispers slowly spread across the room.Some were shocked, anger, disbelief, too many questions. .But only one person mattered right now.Seraphine! I turned toward Darius.He looked as shaken as everyone else. Maybe more.For years he had carried his father’s legacy without understanding what it truly contained. Now the truth sat exposed in front of the entire pack.“What happens now?” Elder Marrow asked quietly.Nobody answered immediately. Then the Lycan Commander spoke.“Now we finish it.”His voice cut through the noise.My gaze found him. The wound from the council attack ha
Kaelira’s POV“Their leaders wish to discuss… the Crescent heir’s dangerous power.”The words settled over the council chamber like smoke.Nobody spoke immediately. Nobody needed to. The message had been delivered exactly as intended.Not concerned, diplomacy. A warning disguised as curiosity.I watched the messenger bow his head and step back. Across the room, several elders exchanged dark looks.Lucian muttered something under his breath. Laura folded her arms.“They didn’t even try to sound respectful.”“No,” Darius agreed quietly. “They didn’t.”The Lycan Commander sat beside the council table, still recovering from his injury. His expression didn’t change.Which usually meant he was angry.“Let them come,” he said.The room turned toward him.“They’re already making assumptions. Better they say them to our faces.”A few council members shifted uncomfortably. One elder frowned.“And if they’re looking for a reason to intervene?”“Then they’ll find one regardless.”Nobody argued wi
Kaelira’s POVThe morning air bit sharp against my cheeks as I moved through the corridors of the Ironfang estate. My steps were measured, careful, though the hollow ache in my chest weighed heavier than any exhaustion my body could feel. Seven years of being tethered, bound, contained and now, f
Lycan POVI should have killed her. The thought followed me long after I left the gates. Through the forest, silence and the sharp pull in my chest that refused to fade.I stopped abruptly, boots grinding against dirt as the wind cut through the trees. My jaw tightened, fingers curling into fists a
Kaelira POVI woke up with the taste of smoke in my throat. My body jerked upright before I could stop it, breath coming in sharp, uneven pulls. The room was dark. Quiet. But my heart refused to slow, pounding like I was still trapped inside it…The fire. The screams and him.That boy. I dragged a
Darius POVI got there just in time to hear him say“Your bloodline was believed extinct… until you.”My steps slowed.Not because I wanted to.Because something in my chest… reacted.Sharp and wrong.Kaelira stood in front of him, unmoving.Facing a Lycan like she’d done it a hundred times before.







