All Chapters of The Forgotten Heiress: Rise of The Lycan Queen: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Elara sat buried in the royal archives beneath the citadel, ringed by brittle scrolls that reeked of mold and forgotten centuries. Dust shimmered in the narrow shafts of morning light, drifting like memory. Far above, the city stirred to its rhythm, but here, here, time had folded in on itself.In her hand, she held a sliver of obsidian.Not a blade. Not a relic.A fragment of a mirror.She didn’t know why she’d brought it with her. Only that since the masked girl vanished, the whispers in her mind had grown sharper. Memories clawed their way upward—half-formed voices, flickers of faces. Some she didn’t recognize.Others she wished she didn’t.She had started writing them down.Her hand trembled as she traced a word inked into ancient parchment: "Nullum", a dialect the royal seers buried with their dead. It meant The Forgotten.She looked down at the shard again.Then, slowly, she pressed her palm to the glass.The obsidian grew warm.And then___It wasn’t the mirror that broke.It wa

The forest was alive with silence.It wasn’t emptiness. It was reverence, the kind that settles deep in old bones and sacred soil.The kind that listens, even when nothing is said.Elara moved carefully, each footfall softened by centuries of moss. Maera led the way, her hands brushing past hanging branches like one touching relics in a temple. Kael followed just behind, eyes watchful, his presence steady and wordless. Above them, the trees arched skyward in towering elegance, their silvery leaves catching starlight and casting it back fractured and dreamlike, like moonlight filtered through tears.This was the Elderglen. A place not marked on maps. A forest not spoken of in cities, not sung of in courtly songs.Only whispered about, in old myths and moonlit confessions. Here, even the trees seemed older than time, carrying the memory of storms and oaths long buried.They had walked for hours, leaving behind the castle’s marble corridors, the cold precision of court, the lies wrapped

The silver torchlight spilled across the ancient stone walls of the war room, licking the carved runes and flaking banners with trembling light. The flames crackled low in their sconces, casting long, restless shadows that moved like ghosts—unquiet remnants of blood-stained ages. This room had once held kings, warlords, betrayers, and visionaries. Now it held only three.Elara stood between Kael and Lucien, the charged silence between them almost sentient, as if it breathed alongside them, as if the stones themselves knew that something irrevocable was about to be done.No council sat at the long oaken table. No advisors whispered in corners. No guards stood sentinel at the heavy doors. This moment—heavy with consequence—belonged to them alone.Her heart thudded beneath her ribs like a distant war drum, but her voice, when it came, was steady, steel-veined.“You both saw what happened in that chamber,” she said, her eyes cast not toward either man, but to the floor, as if replaying th

The dust of the Silver Arena still clung to Elara’s skin like ash, ghostly remnants of a battle that was supposed to silence doubt. She had emerged victorious, her blades baptized in blood, her body bruised but upright. Yet even as the roar of the crowd echoed off the cliffs, something shifted. The applause turned too quickly. Not to silence. But to something sharper.Dissent.Because Elara Moonstone had spared Dren Varok.And now, the realm watched her with different eyes.The halls of Moonstone Keep pulsed with tension. Normally frigid and distant, the council chamber now seethed with unspoken fury. War banners hung limp on the walls as if waiting for a wind that wouldn’t come. Around the obsidian table, generals and pack leaders sat coiled, their silence a taut string ready to snap.Elara stood alone in the center of the room, a single figure in black against a tide of tradition. No Kael at her side. No Lucien’s shadow in the wings. Today, she stood for her own choice.Her mercy.“

Night fell over Eldoria with a suffocating stillness, as though the city itself had forgotten how to breathe.Above, the sky churned with bruised clouds and a bleeding moon, red and low like a prophecy left too long unsaid. Its light bathed the towers of Moonstone Keep in eerie crimson, stretching shadows into strange, sharp angles.No bells tolled. No footsteps echoed in the halls. Only silence—and the scent of something old, rising from deep within the bones of the castle.Beneath the keep, through corridors rarely walked and doors barred to memory, Elara moved alone. Her footsteps traced old sigils carved into stone by hands that no longer lived, beneath torches that flickered in still air.The sacred crypt welcomed no uninvited guests.It remembered every vow ever made within it.And every one broken.The crypt was carved before any living soul remembered—before thrones, before crowns, before the wars that made monsters of men. Its walls bore no banners. Only runes: spiraling, loo