บททั้งหมดของ AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING: บทที่ 151 - บทที่ 160

MAYADawn broke over the battlefield like a wound opening.I stood at the edge of the main courtyard where the fighting had been fiercest, watching pale light creep across bodies that would never see another sunrise. The air hung thick with smoke from fires still burning in the collapsed sections of the palace. Beneath that, the copper tang of blood and the beginning sweetness of decay.My legs ached from walking. My throat burned from the smoke. But I refused to go inside until every fallen soldier had been accounted for.These people had died because of me. For me. The least I could do was bear witness.The dead lay where they had fallen, frozen in their final moments. A Lycan soldier sprawled across the body of a wolf he had been fighting, both killed by the same collapsing wall. Two Blue Moon survivors slumped back to back, having defended each other to the end. Gabriel's forces mixed with ours in death's final democracy.I walked among them, forcing myself to look at each face. To

MAYAWe worked through the night, spreading Kael's documents across the war room table like evidence of a crime that had been twenty years in the making.Because that was exactly what they were."This correspondence goes back to before I was born," Asher said, his voice hollow. He held up a letter dated thirty years prior. "Kael was already planning this when my father first took the throne."I took the letter from his trembling hands. It was addressed to someone called the Council of Purity, outlining a multi-generational plan to eliminate wolf influence from all Lycan territories.Step one: infiltrate royal courts and advise against wolf alliances.Step two: systematically eliminate Moon Goddess bloodline carriers.Step three: engineer conflicts between wolves and Lycans to justify segregation.Step four: establish permanent Lycan dominance."It was never just about us," I whispered. "This was a coordinated effort across multiple kingdoms."Rhea spread out a map she had found in the

ASHERI reached the throne room at a dead run, Maya right behind me.Erik stood on the raised platform, a blade pressed to the throat of a young servant girl. Three other hostages knelt before him, hands bound."Finally," Erik said calmly. "I was beginning to think you would not come.""Let them go," I commanded, my voice echoing through the vast chamber. "Your quarrel is with me, not them.""My quarrel is with the corruption you represent. A Lycan king who betrayed his own kind for a wolf." Erik's eyes found Maya. "For an abomination that should have been eliminated at birth.""You murdered my mother," I said, forcing my voice to stay level. "Poisoned her while pretending to heal her. Made me watch her die.""I saved you," Erik corrected. "Elara would have poisoned your mind against your own people. Would have made you weak, just as you are now.""She loved me. That is not weakness.""Love is exactly weakness. It clouds judgment. Makes you vulnerable." He pressed the blade harder aga

RHEA"Are you out of your mind?"The Lycan captain's voice echoed across the training yard, loud enough to draw every eye.I faced him calmly, arms crossed. "I am following the Alpha Queen's orders. All remaining soldiers will train together. Wolf and Lycan. No exceptions.""I am not sparring with animals," he spat. "I did not survive Gabriel's assault just to lower myself to their level."Behind him, a wolf soldier bristled. "Animals? At least we did not spend centuries hiding behind stone walls while pretending to be superior.""Enough." I stepped between them before fists could fly. "Both of you will train together or you will spend the night in the stockade. Your choice."The Lycan captain glared at me. "Commander Rhea, with all due respect...""Then show me that respect by following orders." I gestured to the assembled fighters. "We have maybe three hundred combat-ready soldiers left. The Eternal Order has thousands. If we do not learn to fight as one force, we all die. It is tha

ASHERTwenty-four hours until Mordain's ultimatum expired.I stood on the ruined southern wall, watching wolves and Lycans work side by side to rebuild what Gabriel's assault had destroyed. The irony was not lost on me. We were repairing defenses to protect ourselves from an enemy that vastly outnumbered us, using workers who had been killing each other just days ago."Your Majesty," Master Builder Hendrick approached, his weathered face grim. "We have a problem."Of course we did."The coffers are nearly empty. The war drained what your father saved, and the reconstruction costs are astronomical." He gestured to the damaged walls. "I can repair the defenses or I can ensure the refugees are housed and fed through winter. Not both."I looked down at the courtyard where wolf families who had lost everything huddled in makeshift shelters. Children played among the rubble, their laughter a strange counterpoint to the destruction surrounding them."We do both," I said."Your Majesty, the m