SERAPHINA CLANG!I jolted awake, my heart leaping. “Breakfast bell?!” My eyes flew open, sunlight flooding the room, and snapped to the clock, training had already passed.“Goddess, I’m screwed!” I threw the blanket off and jumped out of bed, scrambling into my uniform. The Alpha instructor was going to eat me alive for missing training.How was this possible? I didn’t even hear the morning bell! I groaned, tugging my pants on.Phina purred inside my head. “That’s because we slept like never before. You know it too, it was the best sleep we’ve had in years.”I froze, her words striking a chord. My gaze slid to my bed where Ronan was last night. Empty. The memories crashed back, his warmth wrapped around me, his arms caging me in like I belonged there. I had melted in his hold, sleeping as if the weight of the world had been lifted from my chest. I wasn’t just rested in body…my mind felt lighter too.My lips pressed together, a ticklish warmth bubbling in my chest. He actually kept hi
SERAPHINAThe steam still clung to my skin as I stepped out of the bathroom, dressed in loose clothes. No male had bothered with the showers, so I’d found the place completely free for my enjoyment. Feeling lighter, calmer, and finally ready to sink into sleep, I padded down the hallway under the soft spill of moonlight, each step carrying me toward the comfort of my bed.Only the moment I closed my door behind me, I froze.Someone was already in my bed.Ronan.I blinked once. Then twice, just to make sure exhaustion wasn’t playing tricks on me.There he was, stretched across my bed as though it belonged to him. One arm tucked lazily behind his head, his chest rising and falling in deep, careless sleep
RYKERUnder the dark sky, faint butterflies of light fluttered around the page in my hand, dissolving into nothing the moment my fingers brushed them. I had found the page hours ago, yet only now did I choose to touch it.From the shadows, Percy emerged from the depths of the forest, his wolf form shifting into a man. He walked toward me with measured steps, clutching a folder. “Alpha,” he said, bowing slightly before offering me the documents, “I got the details on Alpha Ronan Volkstane that you requested.”I took the file without a word and began to flip through it. Some of the information was predictable, public records, the kind every Alpha had access to. But beneath those lay the hidden truths, fragments of a past carefully buried.I read line by line, my eyes skimming through battles won, alliances forged, and scars unspoken. Then, one piece of information caught my attention. His past.I lingered on the words, my gaze fixed and unblinking, as though the paper itself might reve
SERAPHINADressing back into my clothes and spraying perfume over my skin, I stepped out from behind the wide trunk of the tree. Ronan was waiting by the river we had crossed earlier, his tall figure illuminated faintly by the moonlight.The moment my heat subsided and I regained my strength, I hadn’t wasted another second in that cave. Shifting into my wolf, I carried my clothes carefully in Phina’s jaws. Since my wolf form was larger, the water never reached high enough to soak them as I swam across.Now, standing before him, Ronan’s sharp eyes swept over me from head to toe. “Will you be able to walk?” he asked in that low, steady voice.The memory of our thigh fuck flashed vividly in my mind, making it impossible to meet his gaze. “Yes,” I whispered, stepping forward quickly.Not that it mattered, he caught up in just two strides, fingers brushing against my cheek. “Your blushing face is luring me in for another kiss,” he murmured, a teasing smile tugging at his lips.Heat rushed
THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIWEAlpha Hugo stood by the tall window, his gaze fixed on the wolves below as they carried broken bodies toward the healers’ wing. The fallen Alphas were barely recognizable bruised, bloodied, bones shattered beyond repair after their reckless attempt to tear the page of the one Alpha they should never have provoked.Their arrogance had cost them everything.With deliberate slowness, Hugo turned from the window, his sharp eyes landing on the figure seated casually by the hearth, the Alpha responsible for their ruin.Alpha Asher.He sat with deceptive ease, one arm draped across the chair’s armrest, the other resting loosely on his thigh. His clothes carried the scent of violence: blood, earth, and the acrid sting of torn energy left behind when the forest itself had been stirred to wrath. Yet, despite the chaos he had unleashed, not a single mark marred his skin. He was untouched. Whole. Unshaken. If one looked closely enough, a dangerous gleam flickered in the
SERAPHINA Could this be a dream?I closed my eyes and leaned into him, surrendering to a kiss that was deep, passionate, and consuming. If this was a dream, I wanted to stay lost in it forever.Ronan’s lips stilled against mine for a heartbeat. When I opened my eyes, his gaze burned into me, wolfish and raw, as if he had just been given the impossible. “Was this kiss…a mistake?” he whispered.My heart stumbled in my chest. Heat rushed to my face, and I looked away, unable to lie again. But Ronan tilted my chin back, forcing my eyes to meet his.“Tell me, Seraphina,” his voice was low, rough, “Tell me if this was a mistake.”My lips trembled. “It was never a mistake,” I whispered, before shyly turning my back to him.I didn’t need to see him to know he was smiling. My heart thudded wildly as I felt his gaze roaming over my bare skin. I curled tighter, trying to hide behind my hair, though the fire in my body betrayed me, sweaty, trembling, unbearably hot. Then warmth enveloped me. Ron