LOGINRayan.I told Violet that very night.We were in the bedroom, low, warm light wrapping around us, the fortress quieter than usual after the council meeting. She was sitting at the vanity, loosening her hair with slow movements, when I approached from behind and rested my hands on her shoulders.“There’s movement on the border,” I said, watching her reflection in the mirror. “Hertor will lead the troops. Raiders… renegades. Nothing small enough to ignore.”She lifted her gaze with a burning interest and then turned to face me, fixing me with those purple eyes that always undid me.“And you?” she asked. “Are you going with them, or will I be alone here with Roamur?”I shook my head.“No. I’m staying here.” My hand instinctively cradled her face. “With you.”I saw something soften in her expression, something I couldn’t name. A small, almost shy smile curved her lips as her hand covered mine.“Then everything is fine.” she said.Violet turned her face, kissed my hand, and then stood, wa
Rayan.The fortress felt different when I crossed its gates at the end of that hunt. Not because of the ancient stones or the banners fluttering atop the towers, but because of the uncomfortable sense of familiarity that had followed me ever since my father had begun walking at my side again.In recent times, since the banishment, his name had been an open wound, an echo of rage and grief that I had learned to push into a corner of my mind so I could rule. And now he was there, breathing the same air as me, sitting at the same table, sharing hunting strategies as if the past were not stained with blood.I had missed him. It was a truth I tried to avoid facing, but it asserted itself in the smallest details: in the way he walked to my left, as he always had; in his dry, direct manner of speaking; in his silent presence that, even when I was young, had always made me feel protected and pushed to be a better man.But missing him did not erase what he had done.I could never revoke the b
Violet.I returned to my room when night had already fully settled over the fortress. The corridors were silent, lit only by spaced torches, and each of my steps echoed as if betraying the secrets I carried in my chest.I closed the door behind me carefully, as if I feared waking someone, or perhaps as if I wanted to keep the world outside, far too distant to reach me.The bathtub was already full when I undressed. Hot water rose in soft vapors, enveloping the room, and I stepped in slowly, letting the warmth embrace my tired body. I sank until the water reached my shoulders and closed my eyes, breathing deeply.Hertor.His name surfaced in my mind like an old song that was impossible to forget.The memory of his touch was still imprinted on my skin, as if he had marked me in a way that could not be washed away. His firm hands, the careful yet hungry way he touched me, as if he wanted to memorize every detail, as if he knew time was running out.The way he looked at me, as if I were
Hertor.The wind battered the walls of the cabin, ricocheting outside as if it wanted to remind us that a world still existed beyond those walls. A world full of lies, waiting for our plan steeped in blood and betrayal.But here, within the warmth of these walls, the cabin kept us safe, as if it knew these were our last moments alone before the world collapsed.The windows were closed; it was already late afternoon, and Violet was in my bed. The low light of the cabin cast soft shadows over her bare skin as I slid my fingers over her, admiring every inch, every piece so soft and enticing.She looked at me with those eyes full of plea and desire, and I wondered how someone could carry so much strength, beauty, and ruin in the same body.I kissed her slowly, without hurry, as if every second were something to be saved, a precious memory. There was no urgency in that moment. No rush, despite what would come later. It was a silent farewell disguised as intimacy.My body knew hers with a
Violet.The days that followed passed with an almost cruel slowness, as if the Goddess herself had decided to watch me closely while I refined every detail of the final plan inside my mind.They were not empty days quite the opposite. As the new head of the Noar, every morning brought a new meeting, and every night I forced myself to mentally review what could still go wrong.I had been playing the role of the perfect luna for so long that it seemed to flow naturally from me. The smiles, the kisses, the touches, the way I lay beside my alpha every night as if I were not planning his murder, and his father’s.Rayan and Roamur began going out together to hunt. At first, it was once. Then twice. Soon it became a habit. They said it was to “restore their bond” and to discuss pack matters away from prying ears.But I knew better. Roamur wanted Rayan under his constant influence; he wanted to shape every thought, every decision. And Rayan, even suspicious, still sought that man’s approval
The conversation I had with Hertor that morning was still fresh in my mind like an open wound, bleeding and burning. The dungeon, the chains, the idea that had been born there, silent and fatal.I should have been focused on that, organizing every detail, anticipating every risk, deciding the right moment to strike, the best excuse to lead Rayan to his deathbed.But I couldn’t.Because Rayan spent the rest of the day… different.It wasn’t abrupt or immediately obvious, but I felt it. I felt it in the way he watched me when he thought I wasn’t looking. In the silence that stretched longer than usual between one conversation and the next. In the way he hesitated to look me in the eyes, to touch me.It was almost ironic.After everything we had lived through the night before, after the way he had been treating me since he found out about the pregnancy, that distance was unsettling.He spent part of the day dealing with pack matters, going in and out of meetings, walking through the corri







