Lucian’s POVI was already awake when the hood was ripped off my head.The chamber stank of damp stone and something older—something wrong. My eyes adjusted slowly. Pale torchlight flickered against carvings I couldn’t translate, symbols that looked like wounds carved into the walls. Chains clinked behind me. Not mine. Someone else was here.But I didn’t speak.Not yet.Silence, I’d learned, could wound deeper than words.“You’re quieter than I expected, Alpha.”The voice came from the shadows, a figure cloaked in ash-colored silk, face hidden by a silver veil. “Or is that fear choking your throat?”I shifted my weight subtly, testing the shackles. Bone-forged. Faintly humming with magic. Elixir’s fire might’ve broken them—but I wasn’t Elixir. I was only the weapon she trusted not to miss.“I don’t speak to ghosts,” I said.The figure chuckled, and stepped forward. “Then it’s a good thing I’m not dead.”I recognized her now.Not by her features—Ash-Elixir wore Elixir’s face like a sto
Last Updated : 2025-12-19 Read more