LOGINKIERAN~~I should have seen it coming. I should have known that running straight towards the scent I had perceived would lead to nothing but doom. After all, it was too easy. Way too fucking easy. And Alan tried to warn me. Even Jesse did. However, I didn’t listen, running wildly and blindly through the magically weaponized forest that surrounded what we would soon know was the ancestral coven of the witches. I didn’t heed any warnings and failed to see or perceive the vile trap that stood a few feet away from me until I almost bumped into it. Yes, them, because after running for a few minutes, I didn’t find Celeste. Instead, I found Alpha Jason holding what I recognized as her dress, wearing a wild, devilish smirk on his face.And behind him were hundreds of the mutated army we thought we had eradicated in the last war that happened in Crimson Moon Pack. “Welcome….” Alpha Jason’s voice boomed through the forest after Jesse, and I stopped dead in our tracks. I knew I didn’t
ALPHA REXTON~~The drive towards the location the trackers kept sharing with me had to be one of the longest of my life. Not just because we spent the rest of the day driving endlessly and without stopping, but because my mind kept dreading everything literally. It was as if Kieran and I were taking turns at panicking. Although he was doing it loudly, I was silently losing my mind. “We should be close…” Jesse, who had been the only unshaken mind in the car, stated, his voice calm. “I feel a change in the atmosphere.” “It’s about time.” Kieran grumbled, “We have been driving for the past sixteen hours. We barely have enough time—" “Don’t worry, Beta Kieran,” I muttered, steering the wheel with directions given by the guide who was only in my mind. “The trackers have stopped moving, and I have the final location update.” I wasn’t lying about the update, but I would be lying if I said the same about telling Kieran not to worry. Even I couldn’t assure myself that everything woul
KIERAN~~I couldn’t even kiss Ina goodbye. I didn’t get to look into her eyes and promise her that I would return with Celeste. Truly, fate had a weird way of balancing everything. Because even though I was hurting, I was still very glad that Ina was unconscious. After all, that meant she wouldn’t have to put herself in harm’s way. That meant she would be safe in the Crimson Moon Pack while I faced whatever danger lay ahead… and returned with Celeste. “What do you think, Kieran?” Jesse’s voice was the pull I needed to snap out of my thoughts. I blinked rapidly, returning to the present as my eyes darted around the open area close to one of the borders of Crimson Moon Pack. “Huh?” I had to ask because I hadn’t been listening to him… Or to anyone. We were surrounded by over a hundred of Rexton’s warriors and also the one hundred Lycan warriors that Jesse had led here… and even though everyone was preparing to move out, my mind was on the moving out itself. “Yes, we are wasti
ALPHA REXTON~~All eyes turned to me the second I stepped into the lab—all but Ethan’s. I would have loved to claim that I noticed the tension in the space, but I didn’t. Not when I was carrying what I believed was a bigger, thicker tension on my shoulders. Not when I had had to run all the way from my mansion just to get three out of the four men in the lab. “We have to go… Now!" Those were the first words I let out. I didn’t even wait for anyone to tell me what had been happening or to ask questions. I couldn’t. After all, we didn’t have time on our side. “Y-yes… we have to go.” Kieran stunned me when he uttered those words in response, looking as dazed as he was pale. I didn’t expect him to agree with me because he didn’t know what I had just discovered. If only I had known that he had discovered a fact more terrifying than the one my Gamma sent to me through the mind link about ten minutes ago. I have been trying to reach Ethan so I could inform him. However, his mind h
KIERAN~~“Help!” Ethan exclaimed, beads of sweat trickling down his face even after he stepped into the air-conditioned lab. “Help her, please." He looked entirely unraveled. Like a Beta completely stripped of his usual calculation and pride, reduced to pure, trembling terror. In his arms, Remi looked frighteningly fragile. Her head lolled back against his chest. Her skin was a scary gray, and the faint but erratic hitch of her breath was the only sign that she was still alive.“Over here…” Nicola matched Ethan’s tone, rushing to clear up the other bed in the lab. “Lay her down, Beta. Carefully.” Ethan didn’t need to be told twice. He stepped forward with staggering but long strides, lowering Remi onto the crisp white sheets as if she were made of fragile glass. The moment his hands left her body, he looked lost, his fingers curling into tight, helpless fists against his sides as he watched Nicola instantly begin checking her vitals.I stepped back slightly to give them room, b
KIERAN~~I have put everything in place. Or so I thought as I sat beside my Ina, staring at her face and hoping that she wouldn’t give up… that she wouldn’t lose the fight.Her skin was far too pale, the delicate veins beneath her eyelids showing a faint, worrying shade of blue that made my own chest tighten with an agonizing restriction. I reached out, my large, calloused hand engulfing hers, completely desperate to transfer even a fraction of my Lycan vitality into her fading soul.To sync with her, just like she did when I was slipping away after getting poisoned. But I had discovered that I couldn’t do that even though I was an S-rank Lycan as well. “It's something only you can, Ina… I can’t do any of this.” I muttered, eyes fixed on her, because while I waited to hear from Ethan and Jesse, she was the only person that mattered to me.Slowly, I added, ignoring the fact that Nicola was sitting a few feet away from me and most likely staring at me. “You can do anything, but
SERAPHINA~~It’s happening tomorrow. The gala that I have dreaded for the past week will happen tomorrow, and while I genuinely looked forward to picking Dr. Nicola’s brain, I still wish I didn’t have to attend."But you have to." Kia's thoughts collided with mine. "You know how important this i
SERAPHINA~~“We are finally free.” Kia hummed happily in my mind the minute we crossed the invisible borderline. The air also changed, not just with the drop in the temperature, but also with the absence of the choking atmosphere of Crimson Moon Pack. The last time I felt this shift, I wanted
FIVE YEARS LATERSERAPHINA~~My chest rose and fell in rapid succession. My breath was harsh and deep as the heavy wind of the valley blew past me as I dashed through the cleared path. Or even more appropriately, the wind bowed to me.Kia tore through the high valley, her Lycan legs barely touc
SERAPHINA~~“Break?”Rexton’s voice didn't just rise.It dropped into a heavy, territorial rumble that seemed to vibrate through the mattress and into my very bones. He seethed, his breath hot and smelling of whiskey against my skin, “You belong to this pack, Seraphina! Dammit, you belong to me







