MasukAurora’s POVThe sixth day broke something inside me.Not loudly. Not suddenly. Just slowly… like a thread snapping after being stretched too far.Liam still hadn’t woken up.I sat beside him, staring at his face, searching for something—anything—that would tell me he was still fighting. A twitch. A breath. A change. But there was nothing. Just the same stillness. The same quiet.My fingers tightened around his.“This isn’t fair,” I whispered.My voice sounded hollow even to me.“I came back… I woke up… I fought… and you’re still gone.”The frustration had been building for hours—maybe days. I couldn’t tell anymore. My chest felt tight, my thoughts restless, my emotions swinging between anger and fear so quickly it made me dizzy.“You don’t get to leave me like this!” I snapped suddenly, my voice louder than I intended.Everyone in the room looked up.Lucious stepped forward carefully. “Aurora—”“No,” I said sharply. “Don’t tell me to calm down. Don’t tell me he needs time. It’s been
Chapter 190 Aurora’s POV It had been three days. Three long, unbearable days since I woke up. Three days of silence. Three days of waiting. Three days of hoping that the next breath, the next movement, the next second… Liam would finally open his eyes. But he didn’t. He lay the same. Still. Quiet. Pale. And every day that passed made the fear inside me grow heavier. I had slept for days before waking up, they told me. My body had been completely drained after the fight. My wolf had nearly shut down. The baby had fought to keep me alive, Cassidy said. That tiny heartbeat had pulled me back. But Liam… He had been like this the entire time. Even while I slept. Even while I recovered. He never woke. The thought crushed my chest every time it resurfaced. I sat beside him again, the chair pulled so close to the bed that my knees touched the mattress. My body was still weak, my movements slower than usual, but I didn’t care. The only thing that mattered was him. “I’m changin
Chapter 189 Aurora’s POV Darkness clung to me like a heavy blanket. I floated somewhere between sleep and pain, between silence and distant voices. My body felt weightless, yet unbearably heavy at the same time. I couldn’t tell how long I had been like that. Minutes. Hours. Days. Everything blurred into nothing. Then— A faint warmth. Soft. Fragile. Persistent. It pulsed inside me, like a tiny flame refusing to go out. My breath hitched weakly. The warmth spread slowly through my chest, then lower… settling deep within me. My heart responded to it, beating a little stronger. My body felt drawn toward it, like something inside me was calling me back. The baby. The realization came softly, but powerfully. My baby was fighting. Holding on. Calling me back. No… I couldn’t leave. Not when my child was trying. Not when Liam… Liam. The memory hit me all at once. Damian. The fight. The rage. The power. Then Liam’s arms catching me. Safe. My eyes fluttered open. Li
Chapter 188 Cassidy’s POV The smell of blood refused to leave my nose. Even after the war ended… even after the screams faded… even after the wolves retreated into silence… the scent still lingered in the air like something carved into memory. I sat against the cold stone wall, breathing slowly, forcing my hands to stop shaking. My body ached from the fight. My magic reserves were drained, barely flickering inside me, but I was alive. Barely. Bella knelt beside me earlier, helping stop the bleeding on my shoulder, but I had pushed myself up the moment I heard Liam had fallen. Everything after that moved too fast. Too chaotic. Too terrifying. I remembered Lucious shouting. I remembered Liam on the ground. Aurora unconscious beside him. And Scarlett… Scarlett stabbed herself. The image still made my stomach twist. For a moment, no one moved. The battlefield froze as if time itself had shattered. Then everything rushed forward at once. Wolves running. Voices shouting. Luc
Chapter 187 Scarlett’s POV The war was slipping through my fingers. I could feel it. We were losing. My jaw tightened as I stood at the edge of the chaos, my half-shifted form tense, eyes scanning the battlefield. My forces were strong—carefully built, trained, hardened—but they were being pushed back. By my own family. My son. My former mate. The elders. I had given everything for this. Everything. A blur of movement broke through my thoughts as one of my wolves rushed toward me, panting, blood streaked across his fur. “Alpha—” he started, voice strained. “Speak,” I snapped, my patience razor-thin. “Alpha Damian… he’s dead.” For a moment— Everything stilled. Dead? My eyes flickered. A slow, dangerous smile began to form. So. It worked. Of course it did. The wolves I had planted at the ritual grounds—Alpha Atlas’s wolves—had done their job. They had eliminated him and removed the unnecessary piece from the board. Good. Very good. T
Chapter 186 Aurora’s POV Everything burned. Not just the battlefield. Not just the blood and fire and broken bodies scattered across the ritual ground. Me. I am going to make him suffer. He killed my mother. How can someone be so cruel? He killed his stepsister. My veins felt like they were filled with fire. My muscles trembled with power I could barely contain, barely understand. It surged through me—wild, ancient, overwhelming—like something that had been waiting my entire life to be released. And now that it was free… It didn’t want to go back. Damian circled me slowly. But this time, it was different. He wasn’t studying me anymore. He was wary. I could feel it. His movements were tighter, more cautious. His confidence—once suffocating—had cracked. Good. My golden eyes locked onto him, glowing brighter with every breath I took. The world around us faded into nothing. The sounds of battle dulled. The scent of blood became distant. There was only hi
Chapter 137LiamMorning had barely touched the stone walls when the scent reached me.Blood.Not from the battlefield. Not from war.From home.Aurora slept beside me, curled into the warmth of our shared bed, her breathing slow and even. For one fragile moment, the world was still. I let myself w
Chapter 140LiamThe sound reached me before the sight did.Shouts—not of alarm, but of command. The sharp clash of boots on stone. The crackle of fire.My heart lurched.I was already moving before thought caught up, instincts screaming, wolf surging forward like a storm breaking loose. I ran thro
Chapter 132 Liam I found my mother waiting in the inner hall, where the light from the high windows fell soft upon the stone. She stood still, hands folded before her, posture perfect as ever. Yet the moment our eyes met, I knew something troubled her. “Mother,” I said, slowing my steps. “You
Chapter 136Aurora The night had been too quiet.Not the peaceful kind—the kind that pressed against the skin, heavy and watchful, as though the world itself was holding its breath. I felt it before Liam spoke a word. I felt it in the way his arms stayed around me longer than usual, in the way his







