Semua Bab The Lycan's Contract Bride : Bab 41 - Bab 50

Aria's POV The circle shattered the moment Marina stepped free, but my attention was already elsewhere. Luna's seven aspects were pulling apart like a star going supernova in slow motion."Find them," Marina commanded, moonlight still dripping from her centuries-old prison. "Before they solidify into separate beings permanently."I was already running, the mate bonds guiding me to the first aspect. Wolf-Luna had claimed Dimitri, her silver eyes purely predator as she gnawed on his ear with baby teeth that were far too sharp."She won't let go," Dimitri said, wincing. "Every time I try to put her down, she partially shifts. Do you know how unsettling it is when a baby grows fangs?""She's chosen you as pack leader." I reached for her, but Wolf-Luna growled – an impossibly deep sound from such a tiny throat. "And apparently, I don't rank high enough."Through the trinary bond, Kieran's amusement flickered. "I have the Void aspect. She keeps trying to eat reality. Literally. She took a

Aria's POV James's scream shattered every window in the archive simultaneously.I found him convulsing on the floor, his eyes rolled back to show only white, documents swirling around him in a tornado of ancient knowledge. His scholar-wolf nature, pushed too far by recent events, had finally breached its limits."Don't touch him," Marina warned, but I was already kneeling beside my friend. "He's accessing the Collective Memory. Every wolf who ever lived, their experiences flooding through him at once."Through his trembling lips came voices – hundreds, thousands, overlapping in a cacophony of memory. Ancient alphas declaring territory. Lone wolves dying in wilderness. Pups taking first hunts. All of it pouring through James's mind simultaneously."Make it stop," Dimitri commanded, but Marina shook her head."Interrupting now would shatter his mind completely. He either survives this or—""He survives," I said firmly, placing my hands on his temples. Through our bond as pack, I felt t

Aria's POV The Phoenix realm's trial ground was a solar flare given form – heat that transcended temperature, flame that burned concepts rather than matter."Welcome to the Pyre of Purpose," the Phoenix Empress announced, Flame-Luna perched on her shoulder like a tiny, giggling sun. "Your trial is simple: burn away your attachments to claim your power."Three pyres materialized before me. In the first, an image of Dimitri, our mate bond visible as silver thread. In the second, Kieran, our complicated history written in shadow and light. In the third, all seven aspects of Luna, connected to me by golden chains of motherhood."Burn the bonds," the Empress commanded. "Prove you can lead without the weakness of connection."I approached the first pyre, feeling the heat of demanded sacrifice. The trial wanted me to become like the phoenixes – eternally reborn, but always alone in their resurrection."This is wrong," I said."This is necessary," the Empress countered. "Every guardian befor

Aria's POV Reality was having a seizure.In the Shadow Realm's throne room, five versions of myself materialized simultaneously, each pulled from their timeline by the weakening seals."This is impossible," said the Aria who wore witch robes exclusively, her magical signature pure and untainted by wolf heritage. "Timeline convergence requires—""A complete seal failure," finished the Aria whose eyes held only wolf gold, no trace of humanity remaining. "Which is exactly what's happening."I studied my alternates, each a path I could have taken. Witch-Aria had rejected the bite, choosing magic over mate bonds. Wolf-Aria had surrendered to the beast completely. One Aria bore Kieran's mating mark alone, her bond with him absolute and exclusive. Another stood markless, having chosen solitude over any connection."We're all being pulled to this convergence point," shadow-Aria observed. "The question is why."Through increasingly fractured mate bonds, I felt Dimitri and Kieran experiencing

Aria's POV Finding Luna's aspects across infinite timelines should have been impossible. But impossibility had become our specialty.Each of my seven selves took a different approach. Witch-Aria tracked magical signatures. Wolf-Aria followed scent trails that crossed dimensional boundaries. Shadow-Aria moved through darkness between worlds. We were synchronized but separate, a conscious network spanning reality."Found Phoenix-Luna," Kieran's-Aria reported. "Timeline 347-B. She's... older here. Maybe twenty.""Vampire-Luna located," Lone-Aria added. "Timeline 12-F. She never split from the whole but developed her aspect internally."One by one, we located them. Shadow-Luna hiding in Marcus's dissolving collective. Light-Luna burning like a beacon in Timeline Prime. Wolf-Luna running with a pack that existed in quantum superposition. Witch-Luna studying magic that could rewrite reality itself. Human-Luna living normally in a timeline where the supernatural never emerged.But Flame-Lun