Semua Bab Rosie's Bloom: Bab 111 - Bab 117

Claria POVThe sand shifts under my feet like it recognizes me.Not worshipping.Not fearing.Just adjusting.Making space.It feels strange being noticed by the world itself.Every grain, every breeze, every heartbeat within a mile seems to pause and whisper the same word:New.Ares walks on my right, close enough that our shoulders brush when the wind pushes us.His tension coils through the tether, pulsing in tight, protective waves.He’s trying to act calm for the others.He’s failing.Mira and James follow at a cautious distance, whispering, arguing silently with their eyes.The rest of the warriors keep even farther back, like I’m fire that might bite.Their fear presses softly against my skin.I don’t take offense.Fear is honest.Aria understood it.Clara commanded it.I accept it.When we step off the sand and onto the forest path, the earth reacts instantly.The air thickens with shimmering dust not magic, not wind something older.The trees shift their branches overhead

Ares POVThe clearing feels different the moment we return.It’s no longer just a field surrounded by trees.It’s an arena of judgment.An altar of destiny.A place where the world itself seems to lean forward, holding its breath.The pack spreads out in a wide circle around us, their wolves pacing nervously behind their human forms.Every heartbeat vibrates through the ground, through me, through the bond that glows between my chest and hers.Claria.She walks beside me like a storm tamed but not broken like moonlight sculpted into something with teeth.Elder Riann steps forward with the weight of tradition crushed into each line on her face.“Alpha Ares,” she says, each syllable stiff, cold,“You will remove yourself from the entity you stand beside.”The pack stirs.The word entity burns me alive.My wolf snarls so sharply that wolves behind us flinch.Claria’s fingers curl into mine, grounding me with warmth that feels both familiar and entirely new.“No,” I say.Just that.It ri

Six months laterThe world finally knows peace.Not the fragile peace that trembles like glass but a slow, steady onethat sinks into the bonesand teaches the lungs how to breathe again.The morning light spills across the pack grounds, golden and soft, stretching long shadows over the training fields. The scent of dew hangs in the air. Wolves run lazily through the grass, not for patrol… just because it feels good to run.And in the center of it all standing on the balcony of the Alpha House Claria watches her world wake.She still gets quiet moments like this,moments where she closes her eyesand listens to the rhythm inside her chest.Three heartbeats.Three histories.One presence.Once, that scared her.Now it feels like home.The door behind her opens softly.Ares steps out, hair messy, shirt half-buttoned, looking like sleep clings to him in the sweetest way possible. When he wraps his arms around her from behind, the bond hums warm, electric, familiar, divine.“Morning, l