All Chapters of The Hunt For Lycan Queen: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

DamonOutside, the courtyard stirred with the usual sounds—guards drilling, candidates murmuring in clipped, polite tones. But in my office, the silence pressed in on me like fog, heavy and muffling. The only sound was the sharp scratch of my pen against parchment as I signed off on trial amendments

LilaMy mother lay still beneath thick blankets, her breath shallow but steady now. The sharp rise and fall of panic from two days ago had eased into something fragile, but survivable. Her cheeks held a faint flush again, and the dark hollows beneath her eyes had softened slightly.It should have be

LilaThe sun filtered through the slats of the carriage window, turning the cobbled road outside into gold-dappled ribbons. An official break from palace walls, a sanctioned “cultural immersion” outing for the Luna candidates.The irony was that most of us spent the ride rehearsing how not to look o

LilaSince returning, I’d been walking through the halls like I was made of glass: all shine on the outside, all shatter just beneath.We hadn’t had another trial yet, which only ratcheted up my anxiety around being discovered. I wandered the gardens the first day, then decided I needed some sort of

LilaThe palace felt colder now. Not in temperature, exactly, but in presence. The air had thinned. People whispered differently. Faces held fewer smiles and more calculation.I felt it as I moved through the halls, like each corridor had been swept clean of any sort of welcome and filled instead wi