All Chapters of Lyra, His Second Chance Mate: Chapter 261 - Chapter 267

Vaeleth POVThe heat didn’t touch her.It should have. The fire poured around her like a living tide - snapping, screaming, tearing through the sky with soundless violence. Ash clung to the air. Magma licked at the edge of the warding circle she’d drawn with blood and stone. But her skin did not blister. Her lungs did not burn.Because it knew her. Because she knew it.And the seal - cracked, ancient, groaning beneath her feet - was screaming for a sacrifice.She held her hands steady, even as her bones shivered.The voices had grown louder now. Not words, exactly. But intention. Hunger. Fury. Echoes of something far older than the gods the wolves prayed to.Something that remembered when the sky still bled gold and stars fell like arrows.Break.Rise.You are the key.Vaeleth gritted her teeth, pressing her palms harder to the jagged obsidian altar. It pulsed beneath her skin like a second heartbeat. She felt the fire rising through her veins, pulling, tempting.Open the door, it whi

Lyra POVThe mountain felt different with the dawn. Less like a battlefield, more like something ancient breathing slow again after a long sleep.They gathered near the cold remnants of the campfire. No one spoke at first. The quiet wasn’t strained - it was simply full. Heavy with things no one yet knew how to say aloud.Vaeleth sat on a stone, arms loosely crossed over her knees, watching the horizon. Not quite guarded. Not quite open either.Ekreth stood nearby, arms folded, wings hidden but presence undeniable. There was a thread of something new between them now - something still raw and tentative, but there.Lyra broke the silence first. Her voice was steady.“We need to talk before we go down to the village.”Vaeleth’s gaze flicked toward her but didn’t fully lift.“About what?”“About what’s really happening,” Lyra said, looking at each of them in turn. “The gods waking. The seals breaking. And what you saw up there.”Vaeleth’s jaw flexed.“I don’t know what I saw,” she admitte

Lyra POV The village no longer smoldered, but the memory of fire clung to the air. Wolves moved like wraiths among the half-charred huts, gathering what remained - bundles of dried meat, cloaks patched and fraying, a few carved weapons that hummed faintly with old runes. Children clutched their mothers’ hems, wide-eyed, while elders whispered prayers in voices too brittle to hold conviction.Moera stood at the center of the square, spine straight as a spear. She was not tall, not like Ekreth or even Nyxar, but the ground seemed to anchor itself beneath her bare feet. Her braid hung to her hip, streaked with iron-gray, and her eyes glowed faintly with something not wholly mortal. The oldest blood of wolves, Lyra realized again. Gods still whispered through her veins.Lyra stepped beside her, cloak brushing ash. “We’ll take them south,” she said. “Ekreth knows a path.”Moera’s gaze slid to the dragon where he lingered at the edge of the square. Even in human form, he was unmistakable -