All Chapters of The Black Wolf : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

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Chapter 41: Heart On A Leash

Vireya’s POV “Yes,” I said, my voice low but steady. “He called me to read from the Living Book, and I was able to ask the question.”I studied Zevarion’s face, expecting it to twist with horror, or for him to flinch, to pace, to react, something. But instead, he stood still. Calm. Too calm.His composure unsettled me more than if he’d panicked.“First,” he said quietly, “I need to talk to you about that day.”I blinked. “Are you serious?” My voice cracked, barely restrained. “We’re living with demons, Zevarion. Real demons, and you want to talk about that day?”“I know how it sounds,” he said, taking a cautious step closer. “But we can’t change where we are right now, at this minute. We can, however, change what’s between us. And right now what matters most to me is you. It kills me that you don’t know the truth. Please, Vireya. Just let me explain.”Damn it. I’d walked right into that one. With a sigh, I crossed my arms, my silence giving him permission to speak.He exhaled slowly,

Last Updated : 2025-06-18

Chapter 42: Love Before The Hollow

Vireya’s POV Zevarion sat beside me, his presence a familiar warmth against the chill lingering in my chest. His eyes searched mine, worry etched into the soft furrow of his brow.“Are you okay?” he asked, his voice low, almost coaxing.I nodded, forcing a smile to rise to my lips. “Yes, I’m fine.”I didn’t want to pour my tangled emotions onto his plate, not tonight. So I reached out, peeled the napkin from the dish, and we ate in quiet companionship.Every bite passed between gentle conversation and long looks. The ache of missing him slowly dulled into something softer, something almost comforting. We talked about everything and nothing, just hearing his voice again made the world tilt back into place for a moment.“I’ve missed you so much,” he murmured, his fingers brushing against mine. “Can we sleep outside tomorrow? In the woods like we used to?”Relief bloomed in my chest like moonlight flooding a forest floor.“I thought you’d never ask,” I said with a grin, and the look in

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Chapter 43: Road To Iskareth Hollow

Vireya's POV The first light of dawn stretched softly across the sky, painting it in pale hues of gold and lavender. I stirred from sleep. But when I reached out, the space beside me was empty.Zevarion was already up.I stepped outside the tent, and there he stood, bathed in the early glow of morning. His eyes met mine with a warmth that settled the nerves fluttering quietly in my chest.He didn’t say much, he didn’t need to. His presence, steady and quiet, said everything. He hugged me tightly, and walked me back through the woods, his hand brushing mine every few steps, as if reluctant to let go. The silence between us was gentle. Sacred.When the castle gates came into view, we paused. He touched my cheek, the pad of his thumb tracing the edge of my jaw. For a moment, the world held its breath.“I’ll wait for you,” he said.And I nodded, trying not to let the emotion in my throat rise too high. “I’ll come back to you.”I slipped into the castle before the morning bustle began, th

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Chapter 44: The Witchfire War

Vireya's POV Its mouth yawned like a beast in wait. No torches. Just silence and a suffocating air of doom. The very sight of it made something deep inside me recoil. My skin prickled. My heart beat slower, as if the darkness ahead were trying to steal the rhythm from my chest.I swallowed hard. The Hollow wasn’t just a cave. It felt alive. And it hated me.From the thick underbrush where we hid, I spotted two sentinels standing motionless at the cave entrance. Their faces were completely covered by bone-masked hoods, their forms draped in ragged black robes. It was impossible to tell if they were male or female, if they were even werewolves at all.They didn’t move, not once. Not even when the air shifted with death.When night fell, Xareth moved like a whisper. He stepped forward, his black cloak merging with the darkness. His bow emerged in one fluid motion.He pulled two arrows, and fired in perfect unison.They struck, each piercing through the eye sockets of the guards and emb

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Chapter 45: Songs Of The Damned

Vireya's POV I gasped awake as if I had been drowning, breaking through the surface with a desperate inhale. My lungs burned. For a wild moment, I couldn’t remember where I was. I scrambled to touch my arms, my chest, my face, human. I was in my human form, alive.But how?I sat up, my thoughts were a jumbled haze. Then it came back in a rush, Xareth, I remember the betrayal. The curse of Iskareth Hollow. He had fled and left me behind like discarded prey. I touched my side, expecting pain, torn flesh, but there was no wound. Only a scar where the arrow had torn through me. As though days, or weeks had passed.My surroundings were unfamiliar. Stone surrounded me, not the smooth cut of a built room, but jagged and raw, as if someone had carved it directly from the mountain with claws instead of tools. The air was damp and rank with the scent of rot and mildew.There was only one source of light: a small window high above, the size of a wolf’s skull. In front of me stood a door, if o

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Chapter 46; The Unanswered Call

Vireya's POV Kavira rushed toward the bowls the moment she left. She picked them up with a urgency and handed one to me before sinking onto the floor and devouring her own.I stared at the robe in my hands, suppressing a grimace I had no choice. I slipped it over my head. It scratched against my skin, but at least it covered me. I looked into the bowl.The contents were questionable at best. A thin white liquid swirled around in it, somewhere between porridge and soup, with no real scent except something faintly metallic and sour. Tiny lumps floated on the surface, and I couldn’t tell if they were grain or something worse.“You shouldn’t judge it by how it looks,” Kavira said through a mouthful, her voice dull. “Eat. You don’t know when you’ll get food again.”I dipped my fingers in and brought a small taste to my tongue. The taste was revolting, like mold mixed with ash. My stomach twisted. I coughed, trying to swallow, but gave up and set the bowl aside, my appetite buried beneath

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Chapter 47: Seven Days

Vireya's POV The next morning, before the first light of dawn could pierce the veil of the cave, I heard footsteps. They stopped at my cell. The bone door groaned open, and without a word, two figures stepped in and dragged me out.My feet scraped against the cold, jagged stone as they pulled me through winding tunnels. When we emerged into the hollow’s center, dread pooled in my stomach like lead.This was where they sacrificed the soldier. My breath caught. My heart pounded like a war drum. Was this it? My end?But instead of tying me on the altar, they shackled my wrists to ropes suspended high above, ropes I hadn’t noticed before, nearly hidden in the shadows of the ceiling. I couldn’t see where they ended. All I knew was the sudden weightlessness as my feet left the ground, leaving me dangling in the stale, cavernous air.Then she came, their leader. She stepped forward, her gaze sharp and unreadable.“Who are you?” she asked, her voice calm but chilling. Like a viper coiled in

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Chapter 48: Embers Of Salvation

Vireya's POV When the full moon reached its peak and bathed the cave in a ghostly glow, the others shifted one by one. Kavira shifted in the cell.Her transformation was sudden, fluid. Bones cracked and stretched as her body twisted into a hulking, brown wolf. She let out a sharp howl and darted across the stone floor, powerful and free.I pressed my back against the wall, trembling. My fingers dug into the dirt, knuckles white.“Please…” I whispered, barely able to breathe. “Please come out now. I need you.”For a heartbeat, just one, my wolf stirred. I felt her presence flicker at the edge of my mind like a match trying to catch fire. Then nothing. She vanished again into the void.The hollow in my chest widened. My breath caught. My hope crumbled like sand through clenched fists. It felt like falling into a bottomless pit, no end, no light, just weightless despair.Xareth wasn’t coming back for me, that much was clear now. My last hope was my wolf, but even she had abandoned me.I

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Chapter 49: The Rope To Salvation

Vireya’s POV “Zevarion?” I whispered in disbelief, my voice catching in my throat. “How are you here?”“I’m glad you’re alive, common,” he said with a half-smile, lowering a thick rope through the window.“Please don’t leave me here,” Kavira sobbed, her voice trembling with fear.I glanced outside, the witches below were dazed but slowly regaining their senses. Time was slipping away.“Come on, climb!” I urged her, grabbing her arm and pushing her toward the rope. Kavira hesitated, her eyes wide with uncertainty, but then she nodded and gripped the rope tightly.Zevarion pulled from above, hoisting her up with surprising speed. My heart pounded, adrenaline surging like a storm inside me. Kavira was so frail, her limbs thin from maybe months of starvation, her weight barely slowed the rope. She passed through the window with ease.The moment she disappeared, Zevarion tossed the rope back down. “Climb, Vireya,” he called sharply.I heard thunderous footsteps, charging down the corrido

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Chapter 50: Too Perfect To Be True

Vireya’s POV It was all starting to make sense, too much sense.Zevarion and Xareth are the two most handsome men I had ever seen. Striking, perfect, and ethereal. But even among them, Zevarion stood out, too perfect.That couldn't be normal. Right?And the way he ran, not just fast, inhumanly fast. He kept pace beside Kavira's wolf form on foot, that wasn’t something even elite warriors could do.Was he a shifter, too? Or something else?Could he split, like Xareth? Was this even really him? Or a clone? A projection? A demon-made mask?My mind spiraled, each thought louder than the last. Until he returns and his voice cut through them like a blade.“Are you okay?” Zevarion asked softly, pulling me out of the chaos in my head.I blinked. “Yes,” I replied automatically, though I wasn't sure I believed it.He set the woods and started the fire to keep us warm, then sat beside me.His blue eyes scanned me carefully, his jaw tense. “Does your leg still hurt badly?”I nodded. “Yes, but it

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