LOGINThe End..?Aurelia’s POVThe Guard arrived shortly after sunrise.I was already awake. I had barely slept, but strangely, I didn’t feel tired.Maybe it was because I had spent five years waiting for this moment. Five years of wondering whether the truth would ever come out. Five years of collecting names, following rumors, searching through records, and carrying the anger of a girl everyone believed was dead. And now, I was standing in the same hall where so much of it had started.Only this time, I wasn’t alone.Lucien stood beside me. Caelan was on my other side. Julian stood behind us with several guards from Moonstone and Rogue Kingdom.nAnd across the hall stood Silas.He looked nothing like the powerful Alpha he had once pretended to be. His confidence was still there, but I could see the cracks beneath it.The doors opened and several members of the Guard entered. Their presence immediately changed the atmosphere.The eldest among them stepped forward.“Silas of Crescentmoon.”S
BackAurelia’s POVI woke up to someone kissing my shoulder. I instantly felt butterflies in my stomach like a teenager seeing her crush.I smiled before I even opened my eyes.“Good morning.”Lucien’s voice was low and warm beside me. It awakens the desire that shouldn’t be present this early in the morning.I turned in his arms and looked at him.“You’re awake.”“I’ve been awake.” He kissed my cheeks softly. That brought a smile to my lips.“How long? You should have woken me up.”“Long enough.” He propped his arms to stare at me and I noticed the protruding veins on them. I bit my lower lip.“Were you watching me sleep?”“Maybe.”“That’s creepy.”He smiled. His eyes roaming around my face with a kind of adoration that melt everything inside me.“You’re too beautiful. I can’t help it.”I rolled my eyes, but I couldn’t stop the smile from forming. His fingers brushed a strand of hair away from my face.“You look happy.”I paused. The teasing expression on my face softened.“I am.”It
BedroomAurelia’s POVThree weeks had passed since the battle and Moonstone was still standing.Not the Moonstone I had seen when I first arrived—the broken kingdom buried beneath years of silence and abandonment.This one was changing every day.Stone walls were being repaired. The damaged towers were being rebuilt. The old royal gardens were being cleared of overgrown vines, and new silver flowers had begun appearing between the cracks in the pathways.The palace was the busiest I had ever seen it.Guards moved through the corridors. Workers carried wood and stone from one wing to another. Healers tended to the wounded while others searched the old kingdom for survivors who had been living in hiding. And somehow, in the middle of all of it, I was supposed to be the Queen.Or, more accurately, the future Queen because technically, no coronation has happened yet, so I wasn’t officially the Queen yet. But they treat me nothing less. I still wasn’t sure how to feel about that.“Your Hi
The Last Battle?Aurelia’s POVThe first enemy soldier barely made it halfway down the staircase before the Moonstone army reached him.Silver armor collided with black. The sound was deafening. Weapons crashed against weapons. Wolves growled. The entire underground palace erupted into chaos as thousands of Moonstone warriors surged forward.I stood at the center of it all, silver light still burning around my hand.I had imagined the people responsible for destroying my life. I had imagined finding them. Confronting them and making them answer for everything they had taken from me, but I had never imagined this.An army that had been sleeping beneath my childhood home was now fighting for the kingdom that had been stolen from us.And they were fighting for me.“Stay close!”Lucien’s voice cut through the noise. I turned just as two black-armored soldiers broke through the line.I raised my hand. The stone beneath them exploded upward. Both men were thrown across the chamber.Lucien l
The Truth Beneath MoonstoneAurelia’s POVEvery warrior opened their eyes. All at once.Thousands of glowing silver eyes stared back at me from the darkness.I couldn’t breathe.For a moment, I forgot about the army waiting above us. I forgot about the attackers, the broken crescent, the questions that had followed me for years. All I could see were the warriors standing before me.They weren’t moving. They weren’t attacking either.They were waiting. For me.My fingers tightened around Lucien’s hand.“Are they…alive?”Caelan slowly stepped forward.“I don’t know.”One of the warriors moved. Just one step. The sound of his armored foot hitting the stone echoed through the enormous chamber.Every other warrior remained perfectly still, then he lowered his weapon and then he dropped to one knee.The rest followed.Thousands of warriors knelt at the same time. The sound shook the chamber.It almost looked surreal and…magical. Something about how they moved perfectly in sync made everythi
The AwakeningAurelia’s POVThe ancient heartbeat sounded again.Once. Twice. Then silence.I stared at the man standing beyond the barrier, trying to understand his words.‘They were afraid of what would happen when you were born.’My entire life had been built around things I didn’t know.I didn’t know I was adopted. I didn’t know I was Aurelia, the lost princess of some vanished kingdom. I didn’t know I had a brother. I didn’t even know about this kingdom. And now I was being told that my birth itself had been the reason my kingdom was destroyed.How much more of my life had been decided before I was even old enough to speak?My fingers tightened around Lucien’s hand.I wanted answers but I had learned something about answers. Sometimes they hurt more than the questions itself.“What did my mother do?” I asked.The man smiled.“That isn’t the question you should be asking.”My jaw tightened. Okay. Let's indulge this man.“Then what should I ask?”“Why did your parents fear you?”I







