Lahat ng Kabanata ng Mated To My Lycan Stepbrothers: Kabanata 361 - Kabanata 370

SIERRAI couldn’t sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I kept seeing Dane’s face. Not the sweet, gentle one I fell in love with. Not the book-loving, warm, careful soul I knew.This new version of him... it chilled me. The look in his eyes when he ripped those books, the coldness in his voice. It wasn’t him.Something was wrong. Deeply wrong.I got out of bed and quietly dressed. The palace was quiet, everyone asleep or pretending to be. I walked through the halls, heading to the one person I knew might have answers.The warlock.He lived in one of the guest towers, away from the rest of us. When I knocked, he opened the door like he’d been expecting me."Sierra," he said, voice raspy and calm. "You felt it too, didn’t you?"I nodded, my heart pounding. "Dane... he’s not okay. Something is taking over him. Can you help?"He stepped back, gesturing for me to come in. I did."I can try," he said. "But I’ll need to run tests on him. Magical ones. Deep tests. This isn’t surface-level madne

SIERRAThe walk to Ariel’s quarters felt heavier than anything I had done in my life. Every step echoed with fear and desperation. My legs felt like stone, and my heart thudded with the weight of everything I was about to ask. I didn’t even know what I was hoping for, maybe a miracle. Maybe for once, Ariel would feel something like mercy. Something like guilt.But deep inside, I knew this was a stretch. Ariel had changed. Or maybe she had always been this way, and I just refused to see it.Still, I had to try.Every corner I turned inside the castle made me feel more and more anxious. All I knew was that Dane was falling apart, and the only person who had the power to stop it was her.I reached her door and stood there for a second, frozen. My hand hovered in the air, trembling slightly. What if she laughed in my face? What if she slammed the door before I could say a word? Or worse, what if she said yes and used it to destroy me later?But I knocked anyway.The door swung open almost

SIERRAI could hear the screams before I even reached the front of the packhouse after going out to get fresh air when I found out that Dane had killed the warlock. The wind carried the sound of panic, growls, crashing, and people yelling. My heart dropped. No. No, no, no. This couldn’t be happening.“He’s out!” Zane shouted as he ran down the hallway toward me. “Dane broke free!”“What?” I gasped, clutching the wall to steady myself. “How? We tied him down. I checked the ropes myself.”“He snapped them,” Kane said from behind Zane. “Like they were nothing. He’s not himself anymore, Sierra. He’s gone feral.”I didn’t know what to say. I felt like the walls were caving in around me. My chest tightened as I tried to catch my breath.“Where is he now?” I asked.“Running wild around the pack,” Zane said. “He hurt two guards already. Everyone’s hiding. Nobody knows how to stop him.”Just then, a crashing sound echoed through the hallway, followed by another scream. I jumped, my eyes wide.

SIERRAWe heard the scream echo down the hallway like a shockwave. I froze."That came from the meeting room," I whispered, already turning around.Zane and Kane were right behind me, their eyes wide, alert. We didn’t need to say anything. We just ran.The corridors blurred past as my heart pounded in my chest. Please, not Dane. Please, not something worse.When we got to the door, it was chaos. People were shouting, chairs overturned, the air heavy with fear and panic.And there in the middle of it all, Dane.His eyes were wild. Red. Animal. He had blood on his face, and his shirt was torn. He was snarling like a beast, hurling a council member across the room as if he weighed nothing."Dane!" I screamed.He didn’t hear me.Dane thrashed like a wild beast, his snarls echoing through the shattered silence of the council hall. It wasn’t just rage, it was pain, madness, confusion, all wrapped up in one terrifying shell of a man we once knew. His eyes were wild, pupils dilated, blood sme

SIERRA“I’m doing it,” I muttered under my breath, stepping forward. My hands were already tingling, warm with the pull of power gathering inside me.Ariel sat there smiling like she had already won. That same soft hum escaped her lips, like she was singing a lullaby to chaos. I hated that sound. It made my skin crawl.“I’m giving you your powers back,” I said louder, louder than I meant to. My voice cracked.My mother turned to me quickly. “Sierra…are you sure?” she asked, her eyes pleading. “You don’t have to do this.”“She wants to help,” I said, though even I didn’t believe it fully. “Maybe… maybe this is how we fix things.”Ariel’s smile widened. “Finally,” she breathed. “Now we’re getting somewhere.”I lifted my hands, feeling the power move from my chest to my fingers. It felt like light and heat and wind, all at once. My eyes locked on Ariel’s. I was just about to push it forward, just a little more, and then…Everything stopped.The air turned cold. My surroundings twisted, b