Semua Bab The Hybrid, The Prince, & I: Bab 1 - Bab 4

NIKOLAI VOLKOVI found her exactly how I never wanted to—naked, bleeding, and already broken.We pulled her out of a slave pit near Santarém—half-starved, feral, and covered in whatever filth clings to the bottom of underground cages. She was five minutes from being sold to some sick bastard who thought he was buying a mythborn relic.She fought like an animal. Bit one of mine, clawed another. I had to put her down—hard.That was nine hours ago. She's still out. Still stinking.And someone—some idiot—had wrapped her in Starborne silk. Our most sacred fucking duvet. Generational thread, blessed by the twins, meant for kings.Now it smelled like ass.I sat across from her, elbows on my knees, hands clasped so tight the bones popped.Two centuries alive, and it all came down to this—one moment. One girl.I expected a boy cloaked in power... a weapon. Something with teeth.What I got was a girl with blistered feet, bones jutting beneath a stained tunic, and hair like forest rot. Faint hea

NIKOLAIThey say nothing shakes an Alpha. But the moment I saw her bleed light, I knew that was a fucking lie.Smoke licked the shattered walls like it had a taste for memory. I brushed the rubble off my coat, fingers still shaking, not from fear, but from the echo of her power. That shrine wasn't just broken. It was branded. Split straight down the middle like judgment had been passed.Isaac limped to his feet, blood trailing from his temple, painting a crimson vein down his jaw. His eyes glinted gold beneath the grime, furious, shaken, but too proud to show either."She could've killed us all," he spat, voice hoarse with smoke. "You still want to keep her breathing?""She's not just a wolf," Yelena said from beside the altar, crouched low like she was listening to the stone itself. "She burned lunar ether into the shrine. That wasn't instinct. That was divine."I turned to her slowly, brows furrowed. "A wolf-less omega with lunar ether? That's not divine. That's bullshit."She didn'