Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Last Ruby Wolf - Live as a Queen or Die as a Monster: Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 120

Kieran's POVMy body ached with wounds that would take days to heal, even with my Alpha skills. But I didn't care. Sienna was living. That was all that mattered.The battlefield around us looked like something from a nightmare. Trees burned with dying ruby fire. Dead shadow creatures melted into black puddles. My wolves moved among the injured, helping those they could.And in the middle of it all, Sienna knelt beside the fallen vampire prince.Jealousy burned in my chest, hotter than any of my wounds. I pushed it down. Now wasn't the time."Get him to the healer's tent," I told two of my strongest pack members. They paused only a moment before lifting Caius's unconscious body.Sienna looked up at me, her eyes glowing softly with ruby light. "Kieran..."My name on her lips felt like coming home. I'd spent so long hunting her, then protecting her, and now..."You're hurt," she said, rising to

Isolde's POVThe smell of smoke and blood hung in the air as I walked across the battlefield. Bodies lay everywhere. Some wolf, some vampire, some human. Death didn't care what you were.I pulled my black coat tighter around me. Not because I was cold—witches like me don't feel cold. I just didn't want them to see me shaking.They had good reason to kill me on sight. After all, I had helped the Queen. I had betrayed them all.I spotted them near the burning forest—Sienna with her ruby-red hair, the Alpha Kieran standing protectively beside her, and two others I hadn't expected: Zeke, who looked different somehow, and Ronan, whose silver eyes glowed in the darkness.Ronan saw me first. In a flash, he stood before me, a knife at my throat."Give me one reason not to end you right now, witch," he growled.I swallowed hard against the blade. "Because I know where the Third Trial will take place. And

Darius's POVI didn't make it far from the house. My scars were too deep, my strength fading too fast. The clearing where I fell was peaceful at least—a small mercy as I lay dying.Blood soaked through my shirt where the Queen had stabbed me. Her leaving gift when she realized I was going to warn them."You'll die slowly," she had promised, turning the blade. "Long enough to feel every second of your betrayal."She was right about that. Each breath hurt worse than the last.I dragged myself to the base of an old oak tree. Funny how beautiful everything looked when you knew you wouldn't see it again. The leaves above me danced in the wind. The sky was darkening unnaturally—the Queen's fake Blood Moon coming early.I had played my part. Warned Kieran and the others. Maybe that would make up for some of what I'd done.Not all of it, though. Nothing could erase those mistakes."Well, well. T

Isolde's POVThe moon hung like a silver eye between the trees as I led our strange group deeper into the Whispering Woods. Behind me, Sienna stumbled along, still weak from her vision at the altar. The vampire prince, Caius, watched her with hungry eyes. Kieran prowled at the edges, angry and betrayed. And Ronan—he stayed closest to Sienna, memories returning like birds to a nest.They didn't trust me. I couldn't blame them."We need to stop," I stated, pointing to a small clearing ahead. "I need to perform the hiding ritual again before the Syndicate trackers find our trail.""Again?" Kieran growled. "The last one barely worked. We still had to fight off those shadow wolves."I turned to face him. "Would you rather I did nothing, Alpha? The Queen has eyes everywhere. Even the trees whisper to her."As if to make my point, the leaves rustled though there was no wind.Sienna stepped forward, her

Zeke's POVI woke up screaming again.The blood from the vampires burned like fire through my veins. I sucked on my sleeve to block out the noise. Around them, everyone else was still sleeping, and I didn't want to wake them up. Certainly not Sienna. My sister already had a lot to worry about.My sister. Still, those words made me feel weird. For years, the Midnight Queen had told me Sienna was my enemy. That she would destroy everything if she lived. All lies.I climbed out of our camp and leaned against a tree. The moon shone through the trees, almost full. It was almost time for the Blood Moon—the real one, not the one the Queen made up.I held up my hand in the moonlight. My face looked normal, but I could feel the changes inside me. The vampire blood Caius had given me to save my life was doing... something. Changing me."Can't sleep?"I jumped. Ronan stood a few feet away, his face half in