Baine Family: Love and War Book 2: Finally My Own Love의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 4

“Serene! Why won’t you help your own blood?!” My roar split the night in two, tearing from my throat like something feral and wounded. The sound echoed across the clearing, flung back at me by the indifferent sky. I glared up at the swollen moon until my vision swam, my fists clenched so tight my nails bit into my palms. “I shouldn’t have to suffer for a curse you let happen! I shouldn’t be the one punished for *your* mistakes!” The heavens remained silent… but silence was its own confession. Because deep in the marrow of my bones—deeper than blood, deeper than rage—I knew the truth. The Moon Goddess, the serene, sacred deity adored by wolves across every realm… was my lineage. My great, great, great grandmother. My legacy. My burden. And thanks to her and Heka’s twisted interference, I was living a nightmare no wolf, no man, no creature with a beating heart should ever have to endure: **sharing my destined mate with my own brother.** A curse carved into our bloodline long before

I was on my way to the kitchen—bare feet silent on the old stone—when something flickered at the edge of my vision. A shadow, thin and gliding, like spilled ink sliding across a page. Elizabeth. She slipped into Aero’s room with a grace that wasn’t human anymore—silent, serpentine, wrong. The kind of wrong that makes instincts flare before the mind can explain why. I froze, listening to the hush of her movement, the eerie certainty settling in my bones: she wasn’t checking on him. She wasn’t even curious. She was hunting. I masked my scent without thinking and followed her, my steps the quiet of a predator stalking another predator. Her voice came first—low, cracked, splintered with bitterness that had been fermenting far too long. “Why did you and your whore mother have to come here and take what was mine?” she hissed into the dark. “I perfected that spell to bind the Baine men. Both of them. If she hadn’t interfered, Alaric would still be mine.” A spell. My breath stilled. T