All Chapters of I Became the Obsidian Lycan King’s Obsession : Chapter 121 - Chapter 125

Serena’s POVThe fortified wing became a machine of controlled panic.Orders moved faster than explanations. Teams poured into the opened wall spur with lamps and blades. The outer approaches of the palace sealed under secondary lockdown. Every nurse, guard, and servant who had held a shift near the nursery in the last day was pulled into questioning before fear could turn into rumor and rumor into a second failure. Alaric stood in the center of it like a fixed point of fury, the bond between us stretched so tight it hurt to breathe through. I remained beside the empty bassinet longer than anyone liked, as if the shape of the cloths might still reverse itself if I refused to look away.“No blood,” Gale’s second repeated for the third time as reports came up from the run. “No torn cloth on the first junction. No sign of a struggle beyond the initial lift. The guards were dropped with a contact toxin on the neck, precise and fast. Whoever entered knew the release sequence for the spur a

Serena’s POVThe bar on the connecting door held for less than a minute before Liliana moved.“If he falls in that hall while we listen through wood, your daughter still dies the next time a quieter team arrives,” she said. She was already at the bar. “You can detain me after. Or you can use every blade still willing to keep the Final Watch away from that cradle.”Belinda looked at me. The captain of the escort hesitated between Alaric’s last order and the sound of steel on steel through the door. Elara shifted against my chest and made a small unbroken sound that decided more than any argument.“Open it,” I said. “Liliana goes out first under Belinda’s watch. The rest hold this room as the last fall back. If the hall is lost, this door seals again and does not open for anything except Alaric or Gale.”The bar lifted. The door swung into a hall that had already become a killing ground.Alaric was still on his feet at the center of it. Two of the Final Watch were down. A third was acti

Serena’s POVIn the days that followed, the palace learned a different kind of quiet.Not the brittle peace that had settled after Kieran’s imprisonment, when too many questions still lived in sealed files and unfinished roads. This quiet was heavier and more honest. It had blood on the inner hall floor behind it, an empty bassinet in recent memory, and a truth large enough that neither kingdom could pretend the border still protected them from each other.Alaric and I made the decision together on the second night, with Elara asleep between us and the bond open in the dark.“We do not bury this,” I said. “Not again. Secrecy is what let the Final Watch grow into a strike team and what let someone older than Kieran work against the seal while every house watched the wrong threats.”“Agreed,” Alaric said. His hand rested over Elara’s back, a continuous confirmation that she was still present. “Honesty, then. Controlled, deliberate, and wide enough to deny the next faction the advantage