FAZER LOGINCORA
It was the next day and we were headed to the pack’s ritual ground. The morning air was damp, sticking to my skin as we walked through the quiet outskirts of the village. After last night’s issue was settled, Kira and I had spoken at length in the guest house. This sister-friend of hers had passed through a lot while I was gone, and I felt for her in a way that made my chest tighten. She told me about the extra shifts, the missed meals, and the constant fear of Marissa’s whims.CORAI clenched my fists as I heard his voice. Honestly, I too had thought about this and I had no other idea why this was happening. Ronan’s explanation was honestly the best that fit everything, but hearing him say it out loud made it feel like a death sentence. It wasn't just a theory anymore. He was putting the blame for their agony directly on me, and the way the air in the library seemed to turn cold told me he was ready to act on it.Right then, Ronan entered the library, his presence filling everywhere as I felt a suffocating aura from him. His eyes were bloodshot, and the shadows under them were deep and bruised. He looked like a man who hadn't slept in days, but he still had enough energy to make my skin crawl. Cade told him to stop whatever he was doing, stepping between us to shield me from that intense, hateful gaze."Back off, Ronan," Cade said, his voice dropping to a dangerous level. "You're letting the curse get into your head. You're losing control."But the latter j
CORAFor the last few days, things had been pretty quiet at the fortress. The usual chaos had died down while the three alphas had been doing their thing. I’d barely seen any of them except for the occasional training session with Liam, and even those were short and focused. He and Cade were busy for most of the day, moving through the lower levels and patrolling the perimeter. They seemed to be fortifying the fortress from the inside, and their movements were urgent, almost as if they were preventing us from going out instead of keeping others from coming in. It made me wonder what was really going on.When I asked Liam about the sudden increase in security, he didn't give me a straight answer. He only told me that he felt something was going to happen soon, but I thought otherwise at first. I figured he was just being paranoid after the incident at the ritual grounds, but the way he kept his hand on his sword hilt told me I was wrong.Ronan had been like a ghost. He was never around
RONANNaturally, I was angry, infuriated in fact, and every step I took through the stone corridors of the fortress felt like it was shaking the very foundations. My blood was boiling under my skin, and the heat of it was making my vision blur at the edges. I felt like I was the only sensible person left in that gods-forsaken place, the only one who could see the weight of what we were going against.That blue light back at the pack ritual grounds wasn't just a show. It was a warning. It was a death knell. But did my brothers see it? No. Liam was a love-struck fool, or else, how would one explain the fact that he saw everything yet decided to stay by her side? He saw that stone scream in resonance with our curse and his first instinct was to pull her closer and whisper sweet lies in her ear. He was thinking with the bond instead of his brain, and it was going to get us all killed.I hated the fact that even Cade, whom I had thought was ruled by logic and cold calculation, would join i
CORAAfter Kira had told me everything, I found it absolutely impossible to believe. I stood there in the dark, my mind rejecting the words as they came out of her mouth, and I kept waiting for her to tell me it was a cruel trick. But the look in her eyes didn't change, and the shaking in her hands only got worse as she led me toward the edge of the servant fields. She had actually even shown me the location where my mother was buried, and that was when I finally accepted that my mother had truly died.It was a small, unmarked mound of dirt tucked away near the treeline where the ground was too hard for proper farming. There was no headstone and no flowers, just a patch of disturbed earth that looked lonely under the moonlight. Seeing it made the reality crash down on me. My mother figures were gone, and the woman who had helped raise me had died in agony while I was miles away.Getting back to the cabin, I felt like a hollow shell of myself. I tried to walk with my usual stride, but
CORAI didn't bother looking at Ronan as I left. I could feel his gaze burning into my back, and I was sure he must have been seething with anger at Liam for letting me go, but I didn't care. He could growl and pace all he wanted as long as I got to see Kira. I hurried over through the winding paths of the settlement, and after some asking around among the omegas finishing their evening chores, I finally arrived at the small, cramped hut where Kira was supposed to be.However, when I got there, I found no one. The door was slightly ajar, swinging on a rusted hinge, and the small room inside was empty. My heart skipped a beat, and for a moment, I thought that Marissa had gotten back at her through Kira. Maybe the guards had come back for her while I was at the ritual grounds, or maybe she had been dragged back to the dungeons. I was getting angry, the heat of it rising in my throat as I clenched my fists. I already was fuming in my mind, and plans to teach Marissa a lesson came to my m
LIAMThe moment the light shone through, the air in the ritual chamber felt like it had been sucked out into a vacuum. I stood there, frozen, and I could feel my brothers doing the same. We looked at each other in pure incredulity as the royal blue glow poured out of the stone and washed over the floor. It wasn't just a visual light; it was a physical force. I could feel the curse on my skin starting to pulse as if it was in perfect resonation with the bloodline reacting inside that rock.My heart slammed against my ribs, and the realization hit me. She truly was related to the curse! The blood singing in her veins wasn't just ancient; it was the very thing that had been eating us alive for years.The elder with the ritual staff was the first to snap out of the trance. He immediately reacted with shock, his eyes bulging as he stared at the sapphire veins spider-webbing across the bloodline stone. He looked at me, then at Cora, his face pale and his hands trembling."What was this?" he







