LOGINSilas's Pov Our eyes met. The distance between the entrance hall and the upper floor should have diluted the impact, but it didn’t. It felt as if he was standing right in front of me. Those piercing blue eyes locked onto mine with unnerving precision, and the rest of the palace seemed to fall one step back from the moment. My breath caught before I could stop it. For a few suspended seconds, neither of us looked away. The noise below continued, soft and blurred into the background. Someone was beside him speaking to himself, but it didn't look like he was paying attention to the words. His attention remained fixed upward, fixed on me, until the weight of it made my fingers curl lightly against the railing. Everything around us felt muted, pushed to the edges of my attention. My heart, which had been restless all evening, slowed into a steady, calm rythm. And the bond between us thrummed with life. He did not smile. He just simply looked… at me, eyes unyielding Then he ra
Silas's Pov A week had passed. And in that short moment of time, the palace had settled into a strange kind of peace. Ever since I walked out of the throne room and left the Lycan King kneeling, something had shifted, I could feel it with every breath in me. I could feel it in the way the air moved around me, in the quieter stares of the staff, in the absence of the constant pressure that used to follow me from corridor to corridor. Since then, he had not tried to force another confrontation, nor had he touched me again. And somehow, that restraint made his presence heavier rather than before. Everytime we were in the room together, I could literally feel his every breath in the room, his smallest movements. Now as I sat alone in the room we still shared, a fantasy novel open against my knees. The story was good enough to hold my eyes, but not quite good enough to hold my thoughts. Every few pages, my attention drifted. My gaze kept lifting to the clock on the wall. A few minu
Silas's Pov Stunned, was an understatement to describe the feeling that washed over me suddenly. The Lycan King was on his knees, in front of me. This was the same man who had always reeked of nothing but arrogance and power. The image did not make sense. My mind rejected it even as my eyes remained fixed on him. Disbelief flodded through me, followed be coldness. Now? He was doing this now? I tried to blink away the tears that still clung to my lashes, but the shock of his sudden behavior left me at loss of how to react. My chest felt tight, too full of everything I had already forced into the open. Looking at him like this should have felt like victory. Instead it felt like another weight being placed in my hands, one I had never asked to carry. “Get up.” I finally said. My voice sounded strange to my ears in the empty throne room. He did not move. That alone made something ugly twist in my stomach. “I said get up.” I said more sharply. He still didn't liste
Zenith's Pov Some minutes later, the doors to the throne room opened again and Zira entered first. Silas followed a step behind him, close enough that it was clear my brother was trying to be some sort of protective shield for him. Even from a distance I could read the tension in my omega's frame. There was wariness in the way he carried himself. And the sight of him here, under these circumstances, landed harder than I had prepared for. But it needs to be done. Except Zira did not bring him all the way forward. He stopped several feets away from where I now stood at the dais and angled himself slightly in front of Silas in an unmistakable barrier. “This is far enough,” Zira said. My eyes narrowed. “Bring him here.” I commanded, but Zira held his ground. “No.” he refused. I could feel the shift of the people in the room and the sudden tension filling the air. I descended from the dais, taking a few steps closer to them.” “I was not making a request.” “You already dragged
Zenith's Pov The moment I stepped into the throne room, I could immediately sense the tense atmosphere. Very, very tense. The first two people I noticed were Zira, and General Thorne standing a distance away from him. Ignoring the other presences in the room, my gaze landed on my brother, who was already looking at me. Crossing the floor in calm, quick strides, we met in the middle of the throne room. “Before you start raging you need to listen to me-” “Talk.” I interrupted. He was right, I would start raging, but that was unless he spoke immediately, the reason he called me and only if that reason was reasonable enough. But the way Zira’s expression was unusually serious told me more than I needed to know. “The man from the white room finally gave a name,” he said. “And it’s not just some minor pack Alpha.” The irritation building in me vanished immediately. I didn't expect him to break this soon. “Who?” Zira glanced once toward the others in the room, then back a
Zenith's Pov My forehead remained pressed against the curve of Silas’s shoulder, breath coming out harder than I could control. The heat of his skin still lingered under my palm where my hand had slipped beneath his shirt, and the scent of him filled every breath I took. The shrill ringing continued, and it only spiked up irritation in me. Of all moments. Sighing sharply, I forced myself to pull away, slipping my hand out of his shirt and getting off him, hating the loss of contact immediately. I stayed a bit close for one more second, breathing him in, before I finally pushed myself off the bed and fished the phone out of my pocket. The name on the screen made my jaw tighten immediately. Of course it had to be him. Clicking the answer button I placed the phone to my ear. “This had better be worth your life.” A familiar, unbothered scoff came through the line. “Good afternoon to you too, dear brother.” “I’m busy.” I growled. “Busy with what?” I didn’t answer. Instead my
Silas's Pov:The first thing I felt was the weight of the thick, silk blankets that draped over me, pulsing with a wonderful, addicting scent. It was cedarwood, tinged with that undeniably good Alpha pheromones.I opened my eyes and my heart immediately leaped into my throat. Memories of last night
Zenith's Pov:My boots slammed against the stone stairs of the cells, every Alpha guard I passed was pressed against the wall, their eyes wide and their breathing heavy. They could smell it, I could smell it. I reached his cell and ripped the heavy door open so hard the hinges groaned in protest.
Silas POV One moment I was walking home in the rain, mourning a life lived in shadows, and the next, I was a traitor to the crown. It was a joke, it had to be. I was a nobody, like a ghost. How the hell could I ever be a spy? I leaned my head against the damp wall, trying to make sense of the nig
Silas POV “Silas, you need to listen to me,” Dr. Stephen said slowly, looking into my eyes like he was hoping I'd listen to everything that was about to come out of his mouth. I already knew where this was going. “Your system is under incredible strain. These suppressants….they aren't meant for







