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I tugged at his shirt while we kissed, pulling it from his waistband, my fingers finding the warm skin underneath.He pulled back suddenly and looked at me. Really looked, his eyes moving across my face slowly like he was reading something written there.“You’re so handsome.” His voice came out low and almost surprised. “Those eyes. They’re something else entirely.”“And you’re just realizing that?” I said.I jumped up and wrapped both lTHIRD PERSON’S MULTIPLE POV.“Aurelian is with your son right now.” Darius said. “He won’t be alone. But you can’t help him from inside a cage.”She looked at him for a moment. Then she moved, following him.He led her back through the passage until they reached the exit door. Locked.“There’s another way.” Nyra said. “But it comes out behind the palace. Behind the cliff.”“Show me.”She led him through a narrower branch of the passage and they pushed through a low door at the end of it, emerging into cold open air.Darius looked around. A cliff edge stretched ahead of them, water running far below in the dark.Something about the geography felt familiar in a way he couldn’t immediately place.“This leads to the Lunar Temple.” Nyra said quietly. “They brought me in through here. The back entrance.”A large rock detached from above where they had been standing seconds earlier and crashed to the ground between them and the door.They both went still.Then Darius looked at Nyra. “We need
THIRD PERSON’S MULTIPLE POV.Darius moved carefully through the underground passage, each footstep placed with deliberate quiet against the cold cement floor.He followed the dim light ahead until the passage opened into a wider space, and he stopped at the edge of it, pressing himself against the wall.A cage sat at the far end.Alpha Kael was crouching before it, tugging at a small opening in the bars, pushing the baskets through one at a time.“That’s your food.” He said flatly. “Eat at the right time.”“Don’t speak to me that way.” The voice from inside the cage was sharp and controlled, not the voice of someone broken by confinement.“You thought you could expose us?” Kael’s voice hardened.“Kael.” Alpha Soren placed a hand on his shoulder. “Leave it. We don’t need this tonight.”The woman rose from where she had been sitting and moved to the bars, her hands wrapping around the steel. “You should have killed me when you had the chance. I’ve told you that for years.” Her voice car
THIRD PERSON’S MULTIPLE POV.“She’s even more stunning in person.” A woman near the back of the hall whispered.“An ethereal beauty. Look at her.”But none of that reached Astarian.He stood on the platform and could not move. His eyes were fixed on his mother in the doorway and his mind had gone somewhere else entirely, pulling up every unanswered call, every excuse he had made to himself, every day he had decided it wasn’t the right time and moved on to something easier. But she still came when he had invited her to his birthday. Morgan stepped forward into the hall.Heads turned as she moved between the rows, cameras clicking softly around her. Her presence drew attention the way still water draws the eye, quiet and complete.Across the room, Alpha Lucien gritted his teeth, the muscles in his jaw working. When Morgan’s gaze finally crossed his, she looked away immediately. A small smile touched her lips as she did, the kind that carries more history than warmth.She stopped a few
THIRD PERSON’S MULTIPLE POVLater that evening, Aurelian sat in Tavian’s room while attendants moved around him, adjusting layers of fabric and fastening silver clasps with practiced hands.Despite the care being poured into his appearance, his face remained still. Empty in the way that comes not from a lack of feeling but from too much of it sitting with nowhere to go.The reflection in the mirror looked nothing like someone about to be announced consort to three alpha heirs.His ceremonial attire was breathtaking regardless. White and silver robes draped over his frame with the kind of quiet elegance that didn’t need to announce itself, intricate patterns stitched into the fabric catching the candlelight in slow, shifting flickers. A silver sash cinched at his waist. A moonstone brooch glittered near his collarbone, the symbol of a blessed union pressed against his chest like something that already knew what it meant even if he wasn’t sure he did yet.His hands tightened in his la
THIRD PERSON’S MULTIPLE POV. None of them moved.Rhydian’s eyes were wide. Aurelian’s throat worked silently. Astarian’s jaw had gone tight. Tavian’s fingers curled at his sides.Tina clapped once more, the sound hollow this time, tears gathering at the corners of her eyes as she stepped fully into the room.Rhydian’s breath left him in a sharp exhale.“T-Tina.” Aurelian’s voice came out barely above a whisper.She walked toward them until only a few feet remained between them, her gaze dragging over each face in the room with a slow, deliberate disgust that settled heaviest on Rhydian.“Pathetic.” The word left her mouth like something she had been holding for a long time.“Tina, I can explain—”“There’s nothing to explain.” She stopped him cold. Her head moved in a slow nod, tears spilling freely now. “Rhydian, he was my father. My father.” Her voice cracked on the word but her eyes didn’t flinch. “You could have kept him alive. Held him back. Found another way.” She shook her head
FIRST PERSON’S POV (RHYDIAN).Tavian’s words hung in the air like a challenge. My pulse hammered hard in my throat as I stood there, still naked from the night before, my body already responding to the heat rolling off all three of them. Astarian’s hand stayed firm on the back of my neck, guiding me down until I was on my knees between his spread thighs. His cock hung half-hard right in front of my face, thick and flushed at the tip.I had sucked cock before, but never like this—only Aurelian’s. Never with three sets of eyes watching me so closely.“Go on,” Astarian murmured, his voice low and rough. His fingers threaded gently through my hair. “Show us how good that mouth is.”Before I could overthink it, I leaned forward and dragged my tongue slowly up the underside of his shaft. The taste was warm and masculine, skin smooth over hard heat. Astarian let out a deep groan, his thighs tensing on either side of me. I licked again, slower this time, circling the head with the flat of







