All Chapters of Fated to the Five Kings. The Awakening of the Lycan Queen: Chapter 41 - Chapter 44

Santino AlexiosThe howls took hours to die down that night, long after Maddison had returned to the palace, the taste of my mouth still lingering on her lips.I remained beside Selene’s Mirror, watching the last silver ripples dissolve across the still surface of the water. For what felt like the hundredth time, I found myself wondering when, exactly, I had stopped pretending.I took her there because I needed her to see it. Not the forest. Not the lake. Not my pack’s rituals… Me. I needed Maddison Spencer-Bennett to know the part of me that no one else had ever touched, not even the men who called themselves my blood brothers.I had planned that night the way a man planned a military operation: calculating every word, every silence, every gesture that needed to look spontaneous without actually being so.That was how I had trained. That was how I had survived twenty-five years while hiding what I truly was. But somewhere between the glowing roots and the way her hand had trembled be

Santino AlexiosI chose Sokaris at sunset, while the last rays of sunlight still painted the castle windows orange and half the hall remained locked in whispered debates over whom they should swear allegiance to for a single night.It had not been an easy decision, nor was it one I had made with a clear head.Vladimir offered numbers, resources, and a network of allies woven together through promises that sounded far too good not to have traps hidden beneath them.Sokaris, on the other hand, offered nothing but brutal honesty and the kind of silence a man shared only with someone he had decided, against all odds, to trust.“You know this doesn’t erase what happened between the two of you,” Kael warned me that morning as he sharpened his sword with a calmness that contrasted sharply with the storm building inside my chest. “Sokaris is still territorial, proud, and probably jealous of every second you spend near her.”“I know,” I replied without taking my eyes off the place where the go