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The world snapped back into place with a rush of cold wind and pine-scented air.Selene gasped as her feet touched the forest floor outside Kael’s territory. Her skin still shimmered faintly with leftover fragments of the soul-realm, like stardust refusing to let go. The twin within her lurked quiet, watching… waiting.Kael’s arm was already around her waist before she staggered, his heat grounding her instantly.“You’re back,” he breathed against her temple—relief, hunger, and possessiveness woven into every syllable. “You came back to me.”Selene looked up at him, the moonfire-bright glow in her eyes softening. “Always.”He didn’t kiss her yet. He just pressed his forehead to hers, chest heaving, as if anchoring himself after nearly losing her.But the moment shattered as a series of howls echoed across the territory—Kael’s pack announcing their Alpha’s return.Kael straightened, shoulders rolling back, his dominance flooding outward like a physical force. Selene felt it—raw, comman

Kael snarled so loudly the trees rattled.“Home?” Kael growled, stepping between them. “She is home.”Adrian blinked in disbelief. “I don’t know who you think you are, but Evelyn is my fiancée. Our wedding was planned, our families were waiting—”Selene shook her head. “Adrian, I never loved you.”Adrian flinched.“Then why agree to marry me?” His voice cracked.Selene swallowed hard. “Because I was hiding from what I really am.”Kael tilted his head slightly—prouddangerouspossessive.Adrian looked around at the wolves again, pale. “Evelyn… these people—what are they? What is this place? Why are they growling at me?”Kael’s voice dropped to a deadly whisper.“Because you walked into a wolf’s den…and claimed his mate.”---Selene stepped closer to Adrian, but Kael instinctively grabbed her wrist, pulling her back to his side. She didn’t protest. Didn’t have to.“Adrian,” she whispered. “My name isn’t Evelyn. It never was. And I’m not human.”Adrian laughed—high, shaky. “You’re not

Kael’s chest rose sharply.“And after that?”Selene didn’t answer—but her twin did.A whisper slipped past Selene’s lips without permission:“To be his perfect Luna.”Kael froze.Selene gasped, covering her mouth, horrified.“I—I didn’t mean—she—Kael—”He gently took her wrist, lowering her hand.“I know,” he whispered. “I know it’s her.”But he didn’t look angry.He looked… shaken.Possessive.Hungry and terrified all at once.His voice dropped even lower.“Selene… if the merge happens… will you still be you?”“I don’t know.”He shut his eyes, pressing his forehead to hers.“Then it won’t happen,” he whispered fiercely.“I won’t lose you.”Her breath hitched.She gripped his shirt.“I don’t want to lose myself either.”His hands slid to her back, pulling her tightly into his chest.“You won’t,” he murmured.“I won’t let anything take you. Not her. Not the Shadow King. Not fate. Not prophecy. No one.”His voice turned darker.“If the other half of you thinks she can just claim me… sh

Something in his expression shifted—relief, awe, devotion braided into something dangerous and unbreakable.“Yes,” he said. “Every time.”They questioned the allied Alpha before dawn.He was younger than Selene expected. Barely into his prime. His hands shook as he sat bound in the stone chamber beneath the Keep, golden light leaking faintly from his veins where Eryx’s influence still clung.“I didn’t know it would be like that,” he whispered hoarsely. “He came to me in dreams. Promised protection. Said the Moonbound Queen would bring war to our lands.”Kael’s voice was cold. “War comes whether we want it or not.”The Alpha bowed his head.“He showed me my pack burning. My children dead.”Selene stepped forward, eyes sharp.“And he didn’t show you the cost of obedience?”The Alpha looked up at her—eyes wet.“He said you were the cost.”Silence fell like a blade.Kael growled low, barely restrained. Selene felt it—his wolf pacing, furious and protective.She raised a hand slightly, cal

Dawn did not rush them.It crept—slow and pale—over Nightfang Keep, spilling through the narrow balcony opening in ribbons of silver and blue. The mountain breathed around them, stone cooling after a night of tension held and released.Selene woke first.She lay half-curled against Kael’s chest, his arm heavy and warm around her waist, his breathing deep and even for once. In sleep, the Alpha’s constant vigilance loosened its grip. The sharp edges softened. The lines of command faded into something achingly human.She studied him quietly.The scars she knew by heart.The faint glow of the bond-mark at his throat.The way his hand flexed slightly every time she shifted, instinctively checking that she was still there.Inside her, the twin was awake—but calm.He anchors you as much as you anchor him, she observed, no jealousy this time. Just truth.Selene answered silently, That’s the point.She traced a slow line with her fingertip along Kael’s collarbone, careful not to wake him. Powe