MasukALPHA REXTON~~It wasn’t until the Lycan Warriors with us began to distribute bottles of the potion that came in handy that I realized the kind of mind that Jesse has. I finally understood why he was a terrifying and respected war master. Even though I had fought several wars, I couldn’t help but be in awe after the Lycan explained Jesse’s plan to my men and me. “We are to take the potions and divide into two groups from here.” A Lycan female warrior, whom I believed was Jesse’s second in command, announced, her voice soft but reechoing with authority. She paced around us all as she added, “One group will move towards the enemies that we have sighted, and the other group will begin the search for Princess Celeste.”The strategic brilliance of it stunned me. Jesse hadn’t just brought an army; he had brought an adaptable, multi-layered war tactic designed to dismantle the coven's chaotic terrain and anything they could throw at us.While Kieran and I had been drowning in our resp
KIERAN~~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
DAHLIA’S POV~~I stared at the woman standing before me, and for the first time in years, I felt the cold prickle of genuine terror.She wasn’t supposed to be back. She was never meant to return, yet there she was, staring at me like I was nothing but a helpless fly she could stomp on if she wa
SERAPHINA~~These past five years, I have been training with warriors while studying medicine, yet I wasn’t prepared to hear a public declaration of war. War was normal to our people, but the mere thought of it made me sick to the stomach. “Might have something… everything to do with the fact
SERAPHINA~~Th-the world… M-my world had gone silent. The music, the clinking of glasses, and the hum of hundreds of voices had faded. It all vanished, replaced by a rhythmic, heavy thrumming in my ears that matched the frantic beating of my heart.It’s t-the m-mate bo-bond…It was screaming, b
SERAPHINA~~The air felt thin. Or maybe my lungs had gotten too greedy with the past closing in on me. I wanted to turn and walk away. To disappear into the library annex and find the safety of Dr. Nicola’s medical theories or run back to Kieran, but my legs felt rooted to the marble floor.“I







