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Chapter 31

Lily tumbled through the unstable portal with Callum, light warping and tearing around them like fractured glass. They landed hard on damp earth, breathless and shaken.The sky above was black. It was not the comforting kind of night but the kind of darkness that swallowed stars and silenced crickets. A forest surrounded them, thick with fog and cold air that clung to their skin like wet cloth.Callum rose first, eyes flashing golden as he sniffed the air.“Where are we?” Lily asked, coughing.Callum’s expression darkened. “Not Bloodmoon. And definitely not the Sanctuary.”Lily looked around, trying to get her bearings. The trees were tall and twisted, their branches clawing at the sky. In the distance, something howled. A sound that wasn’t quite wolf, wasn’t quite human.“We need to move,” Callum said. “This place feels… wrong.”They ran, weaving through the foggy woods, ducking beneath hanging moss and jumping over gnarled roots. The forest was disorienting, the air thick with a kin

Chapter 32

The forest became colder with each step Lily and Callum took. The air was no longer filled with whispers. It was filled with silence. A kind of silence that pressed against the ears, as though the world itself was holding its breath.They had been traveling north for hours, guided only by the map Draegor had burned into Callum’s mind, and the strange pull Lily felt in her gut. It was a tug she couldn’t explain, only that she knew where to go.“Do you feel that?” Callum asked, breaking the stillness.Lily nodded. “It’s like... something is watching us. But not moving.”Callum’s jaw tensed. “That’s how the Severed Pack works, according to legend. They don’t come to you. They wait for you to get lost in their traps.”The trees had changed too. They grew taller here, their trunks smooth and bone-pale. No bark, no moss, just a sickly kind of shine, almost like marble. The path beneath their feet wasn’t dirt anymore, but ash.“I feel like we’re walking on graves,” Lily muttered.Callum didn

Chapter 33

The sky had turned into a swirl of black and crimson, thick clouds spiraling like a storm summoned by rage itself. As the forest quaked under the weight of Alistair’s threat, Severed Pack warriors scrambled into silent, precise, deadly positions. Yet even with all their strength, Lily could sense it.This wasn’t a battle they could win.Not without loss.Callum wrapped an arm around Lily’s waist, keeping her steady as the ground beneath their feet pulsed with dark energy. The voice that had echoed moments ago, it wasn’t just a threat. It was a declaration. Alistair had changed.No longer the King she once knew. No longer merely the cunning ruler of the Blood moon Pack.Something else now lived inside him.“He’s fused with it,” Lily whispered, her eyes wide. “The Wyrm. He let it in.”Callum’s jaw clenched. “He made himself a vessel.”A sharp whistle broke through the chaos as Nima returned, her teal eyes glowing with fury.“We need to move....... NOW,” she ordered, grabbing a satchel o

Chapter 34

The blinding light faded slowly, like the last embers of a dying sun. For a moment, the world was still. No screams, no movement, no breath. Just silence.And then, Lily fell to her knees.Her hands trembled as she pressed them to the cracked stone floor of the ancient temple. Smoke curled in wisps around her fingers. Her vision swam with blurred shadows, but the ache in her bones told her she was still alive.Barely.“Callum,” she rasped, searching blindly for him. “Callum…”A low groan came from her left. She turned toward it just as his wolf form shifted back. He was sprawled across the floor, cuts and burns streaked across his chest and arms, but he was breathing.Her heart stuttered in relief.He was alive.She crawled to him, wincing with every move, and placed a trembling hand on his cheek.“Hey,” she whispered. “Don’t you dare die.”He coughed. “That… was one hell of a light show.”Tears welled up in her eyes. “I thought we were done for.”“You almost blew up the mountain,” he

Chapter 35

The first snow of the season dusted the rooftops of the Bloodmoon Pack, turning the once-bloodied soil into a soft white sheet that concealed the scars of war. But no snow could cover the tension that now crackled through the air like static.The battle was over. Alistair was dead. The temple had fallen.But peace? Peace was still far away.Lily stirred from a restless sleep, her dreams haunted by golden eyes and slithering shadows. The Wyrm’s voice still echoed in her mind. It was faint, cold, patient.“The child… will belong to me.”She placed her hand over her stomach as she sat up in bed. Her fingers trembled.It had been three days since their return from the temple ruins. In that time, Callum had taken the leadership role without claiming the title of Alpha. Not yet. He said he needed the blessing of the Council first.Lily wasn’t so sure the Council would give it.Not to a prince who had defied the king.Not to a woman who was technically the Luna of a dead ruler… and also carr

Chapter 36

The echo of the Dreaming Stone’s shatter had barely faded when the tremor beneath the Hall of Judgement deepened. Dust started sifting from the ceilings. Wolves were staggering to their feet, ears were pinned back, growls rising from every corner of the chamber.Callum pulled Lily closer to him, shielding her with his body as more fragments of the broken stone crumbled beneath their feet.“That wasn’t just a reaction to the vision,” he muttered, scanning the room. “Something’s wrong.”Elder Varion signaled to the guards. “Secure the Hall. No one must leave until we understand what’s happening.”But before anyone could respond, the ancient obsidian doors creaked open with a groan that silenced the entire chamber. The temperature plummeted. A hush fell like a funeral shroud.And then he appeared.Tall. Cloaked in blood-red and black. Eyes glowing faintly gold beneath the shadow of a hood.King Alistair.Alive.Gasps echoed through the chamber. A council member stumbled backward and drop

Chapter 37

The Hall of Judgement had never been so silent.Even after the Council dismissed the gathering and declared that King Alistair’s "return" would be discussed behind closed doors, no one moved. Not the guards. Not the Elders. Not Callum, whose hand still clutched Lily’s like she might vanish again. And certainly not Lily, who kept staring at the spot where Alistair had stood. She couldn't believe he was alive, flesh and bone, looking barely aged, yet cloaked in shadows older than time.He was alive.Alive.It made no sense. Lily had seen the funeral pyre. She had watched the flames consume the King's body....... Or what she thought was his body. Now, standing at the very heart of the pack’s highest law, he had returned with eyes that gleamed with unreadable knowledge and a voice that sent chills down her spine.He didn’t even try to explain.“Not here,” was all he had said, and then he vanished again behind the obsidian doors with the rest of the Council.Callum was the first to speak a

Chapter 38

Lily didn’t sleep the rest of the night.Even after she left the hidden chamber, after Alistair made her promise not to speak of what she saw, her mind was a storm of symbols, secrets, and the soft ripple of that silver pool. She had returned to her chambers like a ghost, heart pounding with the weight of what she now carried.More than a child.More than prophecy.Now, she carried a truth that could shatter the Bloodmoon Pack’s very foundation.The next morning, the palace stirred with quiet panic.Word of Alistair’s reappearance had reached every den, hut, and outpost. Wolves gathered in hushed clusters around the main hall, speaking in lowered tones, tails flicking with unease. No one had seen him since the Council meeting. Not even the Elders.It was as though he had appeared… only to vanish again.Callum stood at the center of it all, calm on the surface, but Lily could see the storm raging behind his eyes. He was used to being the one with answers. Now he was just another heir w

Chapter 39

The next morning, the Council summoned them again.Callum didn’t want to go. Neither did Lily. But their refusal will mean defiance, and defiance meant war. The pack was already teetering on the edge as some wanted Callum to rise, others whispered that Alistair’s return was a sign to restore the old order.No one knew where the king had gone.And Lily wasn’t telling.Not yet.They entered the Hall of Judgement together, side by side. The same cold air, the same obsidian stone underfoot, but now it felt different. More eyes. More suspicion.The Elders stood cloaked in ceremonial crimson. This time, their wolf masks were etched with moonstone which signifies an omen of reckoning.Elder Varion stepped forward. “You’ve both been summoned for a binding.”Callum’s voice was calm. “What kind of binding?”“A blood oath,” Varion replied. “Between you and the child.”Lily blinked. “That’s ancient magic. It hasn’t been used since......”“Since kings were crowned and gods still walked among us?”

Chapter 40

The council chamber still echoed with the revelation of King Alistair’s return, his voice like thunder as he declared his presence to a room that had already buried him in memory.Lily couldn’t move.She stood frozen beside Callum, her pulse thundering in her ears as Alistair descended from the shadows behind the high table. The Elders had yet to utter a word, their silver masks hiding expressions that were no doubt as stunned as the rest of the hall.“Father?” Callum breathed, his voice barely audible.Alistair’s cloak flowed behind him like storm clouds, the regal maroon of royal blood wrapped around his broad frame. His silver-streaked hair fell over one eye, and when he finally came to a stop at the base of the dais, he looked not at his son, but at the Council.“I see that in my absence, vultures have tried to feast upon the bones of my legacy,” he said.Elder Varion was the first to regain his voice. “You’re dead. We saw your body....”“You saw what I wanted you to see,” Alistai

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