บททั้งหมดของ SECOND CHANCE: CLAIMED BY THE LYCAN KING: บทที่ 121 - บทที่ 130

HOPE’S POV.The dagger had hit the ground with a sharp metallic sound, but Hunter barely seemed to hear it.He staggered backward suddenly, one hand bracing hard against the tunnel wall while the other clutched his head like he was trying to stop something from tearing through his mind.“Hunter!”I grabbed his arm immediately, but his entire body was tense beneath my touch.His breathing had changed.It was rough and uneven, and his eyes were unfocused, staring somewhere far beyond the tunnel walls around us.“Hunter, look at me,” I said quickly.He blinked once, hard, but it did not help.Then he spoke.“Fire…”His voice sounded distant and confused.I frowned in confusion at the word, and my heart started pounding harder.“What?”Another sharp breath left him before he spoke again.“There was fire,” he muttered. “The trees… goddess… everything was burning…”The guards around us exchanged uneasy looks.One of the warriors stepped forward carefully. “My King—”“Not now,” I snapped wit

HOPE’S POV.The silence between us felt fragile after everything that happened in the tunnels. Hunter still stood near the window overlooking the dark forest beyond the castle walls, but the anger from earlier had faded now. What remained behind looked worse. Exhaustion. Real exhaustion.The kind that settled deep into someone’s bones after carrying too much for too long.I watched him carefully from where I stood beside him. His shoulders were tense beneath his shirt, and every now and then his fingers flexed slightly at his sides like he was trying to steady himself without anyone noticing.But I noticed.His eyes remained fixed on the forest outside, distant and unfocused, like part of him was still trapped somewhere inside those broken flashes from the past.“I don’t know what’s happening to me anymore,” he admitted quietly.The words hurt more than I expected, not because of what he said, but because of how lost he sounded saying it. I stepped closer slowly until I was standing d

HUNTER'S POV.The moment I realized Hope should have returned already, but was nowhere to be found, something inside me grew restless.I stood abruptly from the chair near the window.Too much time had passed.Far too much. So why was she not back yet? What could the prisoner possibly have to say that would take this long. Unless something else came up while she was there and she had to take care of it, but even so, she would have found a way to let me know.One of the escort guards should have reported back by now at least, knowing that I would be worried if I didn't see her.As if on que, a sharp knock sounded against the door.“Enter.”A guard rushed inside quickly, breathing hard.“My King—”My heart jumped as soon as I saw the panic on his face and I just knew something was wrong.“Where is she?”The guard froze slightly, his eyes darting around the room as if he was looking for an item gone missing.“I… thought she was with you.”Ice flooded my chest instantly.“What?”The guard

HOPE’S POV.Pain was the first thing I felt when I woke up.A sharp pounding sat behind my eyes, heavy enough to make my stomach twist the moment I tried to move. For a few seconds, I could not even open my eyes properly. My head felt too heavy, my body slow and weak like something was pressing down on me from every direction.Then the cold hit me, not normal cold.Stone cold. The kind that settles deep into your bones and stays there.My eyes finally opened slowly, and for a moment all I saw was darkness and weak light flickering somewhere beyond iron bars.Wait... Iron bars....?My heartbeat stopped for one terrifying second. Memory crashed into me immediately after that.The tunnels.The fake guard.The men attacking me.“Careful. Magnus wants her alive.” the words repeated in my head with cruel clarity. I pushed myself upright too quickly and pain exploded through my head hard enough to make me groan.“Easy,” my wolf muttered darkly inside me. “You were drugged.”I forced myself t

HOPE'S POV.A distant bell suddenly echoed through the underground halls.The sound froze me immediately.Then voices erupted again somewhere farther behind me.“She crossed into the western tunnels!”“Move!”My eyes widened and I ran again.My lungs burned violently now, but I forced myself forward through another narrow corridor before suddenly skidding to a stop when my eyes landed on what was before me.Bars. Cells. Dozens of them.I stared in shock.People looked back at me from behind the iron doors.They look thin. Weak. Injured.Some barely looked alive.My stomach twisted painfully.One older man stepped closer to the bars slowly when he saw me.“You’re not one of them.”His voice sounded rough from disuse.I moved closer carefully.“What is this place?”The man laughed bitterly.“A grave.”Another prisoner lifted her head weakly from the floor.“You’re from Red Moon…”I froze.“How do you know that?”“You smell like their territory.”My frown deepened. That was strange. I ha