[Zeve’s POV] I returned to the Aura palace. Amor wasn’t in our room. So I asked Lexi where he was and she told me he was in the torture cells in the dungeons. I took a bath, where I talked a little more about what had happened while I was gone. Lexi informed me about the riots that had broken out in various parts of the pack. Amor had been enforcing law to maintain peace and also using army and force to neutralise the violent elements in the population. Amor hadn’t returned since the time I left the palace. He asked Lexi through a mind-link about me and she told him where I was, but after that, Amor hadn’t contacted her again. I could understand how busy he would have been. The situation was indeed concerning. How did riots break out? Could they be related to the civil disputes Amor was talking about earlier? I thought. “Alpha had recently got his hands on the people who are suspected to be the initiators of the riots. He is questioning them himself,” Lexi informed. “Is LKS loo

[Zeve’s POV] I walked over the fallen walls of the public library and picked up a book that was buried under the debris. I dusted off the dust just to see the book cover stained with blood and the pages half burnt. As far as my eyes could go in that area, all I could see were demolished houses, fallen walls, burnt trees, dug up roads and a heavy haunting silence blanketing the riot affected area. I couldn’t stop the fear from clenching my chest even when I was surrounded by heavy military forces and, above all, Amor himself was standing beside me. Amor said we would visit an area that was affected less badly. If that was less bad than I wondered what would be the condition of the badly affected areas. Trent and my knights were keeping a watch around us at all times. Yet… even after all that security, I felt vulnerable and defeated as the memories of the people being slaughtered and sheer demonic violence rushed into my head as I leafed through the burnt pages of that book. The bo

[Amor’s POV]Even though I stood far away from Zeve, I could see her every move using Rian’s vision. She looked distracted and I don’t blame her. She had a lot going on in her head with the pressure of doing all of that on her own.I stopped Aria before she entered the playground that had now become a battlefield. She told me what Zeve had planned all along. Zeve already knew that one day she would face the ultimas army.But she didn’t want to fight them. She just wanted to sever the strings of all these marionettes and let them rest in peace forever. That was the best thing she could do for her fallen people.I understood that battle wasn’t my battle; it was Zeve’s. Only she had the right to make her people rest in peace. So, I backed off. Because it was an emotional war for her. But I knew she would need me soon and maybe even she knew that.She was seeing her kind in front of her. They were dead, yet moving around as if they were alive. She had the power to bring them back to life

[Zeve’s POV]‘Burn us. That is the only way,’ father’s soul had appeared in front of me on the battlefield as I held Trent’s body in my lap. Life fleeted from his body like his breaking breaths. “Luna, it’s my honour to have served you and to die for you. Thank you for everything you have done for me.” Trent’s voice faltered and my heart tightened in my chest. The ultimas had risen again. Their heads hung limp from their bodies as Derek forced their bodies to move.“How low… how low are you going to steep!” I yelled. “DEREK!”I used my mama threads to bind all the skeletonised ultimas in their places and commanded the knights and everyone else to leave the battlefield. Vance took Trent’s body with him. “You will pay… you will pay for all this… I will make you pay, you bastard!” Father’s soul smiled at me. ‘Calm down, daughter. Always keep a calm mind. No matter what life throws at you, stay still, think, and then rage. Keep your mind in the eye of hurricane-like life and let your

[Amor’s POV]I don’t fucking know what the hell happened to him, but he was doing the same again. He was the exact Hikari who almost destroyed the entire pack after Mayu’s death. Not even a cent percent different.I thought over all these years he would understand and eventually move on, but no, he was still the same — no — he was worseHe demanded me to hand over all my shadows and rogues to him. His demands didn’t stop there this time… “Well… if you won’t hand them over to me, I will conquer them,” Hikari said.I frowned. “How the hell will you do that?”“I will become the alpha of the Aurora pack,” he said, and I let out a smirk. “There is no point in asking for justice from you. When I annex your throne and crown — your pack, your rogues… and your luna… will all be mine.”My knuckles cracked when I curled my fingers into fists.“Yes, I want Zeve, Amor. As much as I want my revenge. You asked me once if I liked her and I said I don’t know… but now I know… it’s not just like or lu