Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Price Of Fate: Kabanata 241 - Kabanata 250

Nyra’s POVAt first only shape. A long curving line. Wings suggested in brilliance. A neck arching with impossible grace. Then detail rushed into it with terrifying beauty. Scales. Not fully solid, not like an ordinary creature made of flesh, but detailed enough that my breath caught on them. Each one edged in golden linework, each one holding a luminous texture like a memory of metal and flame and ancient skin given phantom life. A body vast and elegant and unmistakably dragon unfurled above us, airy and radiant but not intangible in the way fog is intangible. More like spirit given true geometry. Power choosing outline.She was huge. Far larger than any part of me had been prepared for. Not monstrous. That was what mattered at once. Not monstrous. Beautiful. Calm. Powerful in a way that did not make me recoil because it felt deeply, impossibly familiar. As if I had known her all my life without ever seeing her. As if every silence in me had once been shaped around the absence of exa

Nyra’s POVI kissed him back with all the helpless gratitude and rising want that had been building in me since the party, since the drive, maybe since the day I showed him my mother’s book and he did not recoil from the truth of my blood.This was not only desire. Though there was that too, fierce and warm and growing easier to admit with him. This was the bond answering itself. Woman. Wolf. Dragon. Phantom blood. Luna. Daughter of a war I never asked for. Future queen or weapon or bridge to something terrifying on the other side of the barrier.Ronan kissed all of it. Not separately. Not after sorting what parts were easier to love. Together. That was why the intimacy between us here in the cocoon did not feel like escape from fear. It felt like answer. Like continuation. Like the body and the bond and Seraphina’s light all agreeing that no matter how terrible the road ahead might become, what we were making now was real enough to travel with us.He lowered me gently onto the grass.

Keiran’s POVMichael’s expression lost its earlier superior balance and went visibly grim. Josiah’s face changed too, the measured caution on it turning into something more serious. The sort of look men get when the conversation stops being about insult and becomes about whether they have misunderstood the architecture of their own survival.Roderick still wanted the old footing. He clung to it.“You are exaggerating.”I looked at him.“No.” The word sat between us like stone.“The entire drama happened in front of me. They asked. Elaine wasn’t around to accept or refuse. Calista made a fool of herself. The whole thing was desperation dressed in authority.”I took another step forward.“And Vandwood will not be the one calling for help when the time comes.”That earned me a sharper look from Michael. I did not care.“We survived an onslaught of Outland creatures without the Prima society,” I said. “We are good.”The bitterness in that line tasted exactly as it should have. Because sur

Keiran’s POVI did not go back to the party. The moment Ronan left the office to return to Nyra, I already knew I would not be following him there. I could have. No one would have stopped me. The meeting had broken apart into practical arrangements and late apologies and the sort of stiff diplomacy men use when truth has frightened them enough to make them civil. Ethan had the room. Charles and Malcolm were still there. The visiting Alphas had stopped speaking like they owned anyone’s future. I could have made my excuses, walked back through the corridors, stepped once more into the warm light of her birthday, and stood on the edge of the room like some wounded fool pretending duty had brought him there.But I knew what I would see if I did. Nyra. Ronan. The simple brutal rightness of them standing together while the pack watched. He would be close to her, whether openly or in those small unconscious ways men do not bother hiding when they have nothing left to fear. A hand at the smal

Keiran’s POVThere was too much tension in Vandwood lately for that. Guards still moved. A few lanterns still burned. Somewhere inside, servants were likely cleaning up after guests or carrying messages between rooms where men with titles still talked too long. But the house itself had settled enough that the ache in me wanted nothing more than my bed and oblivion.Instead, I checked on my mother first. I do not know when that became instinct again. Maybe after the attack. Maybe after I saw how much the loss of her leg hollowed her in the private moments she thought no one noticed. Maybe because after losing so much in so many directions, the simple act of making sure she was still there had become its own prayer.I found her on the balcony. The sight of her nearly stopped me cold. She sat in her chair turned partly toward the dark outside, blanket gathered wrong over her lap, shoulders shaking so hard the moonlight made each movement cruelly visible. She was crying with the kind of a