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CHAPTER 61

JULIANThe blast of the Great Horn freezes the blood in my veins.No. The word forms in my mind before I can stop it, instinctive and useless. Not yet. Not now.My head snaps toward the window. My heart is doing something irregular and violent in my chest. I was expecting… I don’t really know what, but something to indicate that Avara had been rescued. A siren, sounds of alarm, chaos, anything of that sort before the sound of the Great Horn.I’ve been leaning against the window, pressing my ears against the wall. And yet, nothing. All I’ve met has been silence.But Kaeden is here, has been here for a while in a bid to get Avara.Why hasn’t he gotten to her yet? Or has he tried to do so and failed?The heavy oak doors swing open with a violent crash.My father stands there, silhouetted by the flickering torchlight of the corridor. He looks pristine, his silver coat sharp, his expression unreadable. Behind him, four high-ranking guards stand like statues."The moon is at its peak, Julia

CHAPTER 62

AVARAMy legs tremble violently as I attempt to walk away from the horrors of Alpha Silas’ office, from the demons and the Hollow Walkers and the dark, dark magic I had no idea the man I called my father had affiliations with until this evening. Pain erupts through my body in cascading waves, but I fight it, not out of resilience, but out of fear. I’ve learnt this evening that I don’t know who the man, Silas is. But if there is one thing I know, it’s that I’ve not seen the worst of what this man can be. The worst of what he can do."Watch your step," he hisses, not bothering to look at me. "We wouldn't want you collapsing before the ceremony now, would we?"The ceremony.The word detonates somewhere behind my sternum.For a moment, I crane my eyes to their periphery, and briefly contemplate running. But it’s hopeless. I’m weak. I can barely walk and whatever shit the demon doctor shoved into my face is the only thing keeping me steady.Scyla. I should have trusted my intuition long ag

CHAPTER 63

KAEDENThe moment my feet cross the boundary line, Fenris surges, not gradually, not controlled, not the careful managed descent I've spent years perfecting.A detonation.Bone shatters and knits itself back together in the span of a single agonized heartbeat. Muscle tears apart and rebuilds, denser, stronger, wrong in the most magnificent way. My senses explode outward, the world rushing in all at once, every heartbeat within a hundred meters suddenly audible, every scent a physical thing I can almost touch.I tear through the fabric of the night. The ground beneath my paws is a blur of frost and stone as I cleave through the Silvermoon pack like a lightning bolt through a stagnant forest. The black and russet wolves of the pack recoil, caught between the sacred silence of the ritual and the sheer, blinding velocity of my approach.I see her.Avara. A ghost of ivory silk, standing trembling before the altar, her legs barely holding. The High Priestess’s blade is a silver sliver in th

CHAPTER 64

AVARAI’m scared and confused but very, very relieved.I didn’t marry Julian.I’m free from Silas.I don’t know how long my freedom will last, or even what the freedom pertains, in this strange place, but I’m willing to enjoy this, momentary as it may be.Silas will be back, though. I know it. He needs me for something. I have something that he wants. I don’t know what that is, but he actively pursued after me when I was little, killed my family, brought me to the pack, wiped my memories and pretended that all those years, the only reason why he kept me by his side was because of his benevolence.And I believed him. Even though he never had a kind word, or even a kind look for me, I believed that he somehow had compassion for me and maybe, somehow, cared for me.I was a fool. I know better now.I wince as a bout of pain shoots up my face, straight through my skull. Whatever the demon ‘doctor’, Scyla, gave me to keep me strong enough for the ritual, it is fading away and with it, all t

CHAPTER 65

SILASThe smell of failure is unmistakable.I stand at the center of the ruined clearing, my claws still extended and I take the sight in, basking in the stinging humiliation of defeat.The altar is cracked down its center. Torches lie guttered across the dirt, their flames reduced to thin, directionless wisps. My warriors are distributed across the ground, some moving, some in the slow, effortful process of remembering how their bodies work. A handful are not moving at all, and I note their positions.The violet glow of the teleportation spell has faded, leaving nothing but a mocking silence and scorched earth.And she is gone.Taken.From my altar. From my ceremony. From my hands.Gone.A murmur moves through the crowd that has gathered at the clearing's edge, the pack, confused and frightened and looking to me. Shifting forms stumble through the dark, their whimpers echoing off the jagged rocks."Alpha? What was that?""Was that... was that Prince Kaeden?"“How did...”“Who were th

CHAPTER 66

KAEDENIt has been three days.Three days since I tore her from that altar, since I felt the weight of her in my arms and understood how much of her had already been spent.Three days of watching her breathe, watching the colour slowly return to Avara’s lips and the hollows of her cheeks fill out. Three days of Fenris pacing behind my ribs, a restless, silver tide that only settles when I am within arm’s reach of her.And I remain restless, desperate to be by her side, watch her recover, be there for her.I’ve tried to convince myself that it is because of the discussion that we need to have, because of the plans we need to map out, because I need her to get healed as quickly as possible so that we can begin working on undoing all that Silas has done to dispel her memories and block her abilities.But I know that it is much more than that. I just find it difficult to accept it because anytime I think in that light, let myself bask in my thoughts and feelings, the knowledge of the sacr

CHAPTER 67

KAEDENMy jaw tightens.“Do not think we have not already deciphered this, Kaeden,” Maereth says, “But we would much rather like to hear it from your own mouth.”"She's..."The word catches.I exhale."She's nothing," I say.The lie lands in the air and sits there and immediately, comprehensively fails to convince anyone in the vicinity, including me.Dolores raises an eyebrow. “Nothing?”"She's..." I stop. Try again. "It's complicated."I look at them with imploring eyes, desperate to run as fast as I can from this conversation, but none of them budge. It takes a long time of just staring and hoping against hope that they bore of the conversation before I sigh and finally give in."She's my mate." I finally grit out. “The Moon saw fit to tie me to her. Are you satisfied?"Fenris growls in satisfaction. I nearly snap at him.Maereth's expression softens. "There it is," she says. “For a moment, I feared that those words would not come out of your mouth.”Dolores raises an eyebrow. "The

CHAPTER 68

SILASI’ve been mostly locked in my office, thinking, recalibrating, restrategising.And also, very much so, beating myself up.I do not take losing easily and this is my biggest loss yet.Perhaps I have wasted some time over the days of brooding instead of making advancements. However, I do know that Avara is was in too bad of a shape when Kaeden took her to be in perfect health at the moment, no matter how many witches Kaeden has in his disposal and uses in an attempt to get her to recover.Dark magic doesn’t fade easily. And perhaps it has gotten me some time.Anyways, right now, my head is clear. And it is time to start making movements. I’ve thought up several extreme measures that I will take to recover my harvest, and now it is time to start from the basics.I ring my call bell."Cassius."The door opens. Cassius enters first. Julian follows, and I read him immediately, pale beneath his composure, still looking gobsmacked and shaken by the events of that night.“It’s been three

CHAPTER 69

AVARAThis place is... beautiful.I look around at the trees, the birds, the wild flowers. I have not been in such a beautiful place for as long as I can remember, and I almost feel tears welling up in my eyes.I take a deep breath. Yep. Smells like freedom.“This place is beautiful, isn’t it?”I turn around. Kaeden is behind me, his hand finding it’s place at the base of my back. He looks down at me and smiles brightly.“It is.”“Well, great to know that you’re finally steady. I’ll need to show you around.”“Is... is this where you’ve been hiding? All those years?”He laughs. “Oh, well, this is part of it. But I couldn’t possibly stay in one place, not if I needed to extend the allies I was gathering, especially not with my father’s assassins after me.”“Silas sent assassins after you?”“Surely by now you know what sort of man he is. What he can do.”“I do.” I go silent, the memory of the horrors that I went through before Kaeden whisked me away flashing before me. I shiver. “I’m so

CHAPTER 70

JULIANI lean beside the oak tree at the training courtyard, watching the disaster subtly brewing. I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to have to co-lead a war that will surely end in my death, given the display that Kaeden showed, how so easily swooped in and took Avara, the magic he had at his disposal, one rivalling and easily defeat Silas’... magic?I wonder how no one has talked about it yet. About how the Alpha could shoot fire and dark tendrils of smoke off his fingers, dark tendrils that looked suspiciously like dark magic.But I guess that everyone else has something more dastardly on their mind. Just like me. And what is on my mind at the moment is the fact that I do not want to be on the losing side. The wrong side.My father hisses as he comes to my side. "Look at them," he hums, though his voice is like a razor. " because a single Gamma was found wanting."I look. The warriors are lined up in uneven rows, their shoulders hunched, murmuring, subtly resisting.Well, no sh

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