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Cora’s POV The heavy mahogany doors of the master suite finally slid open without the pressurized hiss of a medical lock. I stepped out into the grand, vaulted corridor of the Citadel, my breath catching slightly in my throat. My legs were still somewhat weak, and a dull, deep ache throbbed beneath the layers of tight gauze binding my shoulder, but I refused to show it. I walked with my chin up, my uninjured arm draped protectively around Leo’s shoulders as he bounded excitedly beside me. Silas walked half a step ahead of us, his tall, imposing frame moving with an effortless, predatory grace. Every royal guard we passed instantly snapped to attention, their eyes dropping out of respect for their Alpha King. The atmosphere Inside the palace walls was suffocatingly tense. The servants we passed shrank against the stone walls, their nostrils flaring as they caught the scent of my human blood. The entire pack knew about the rogue attack in the residential wing. They knew the A

Cora’s POV The guards led me straight to the heavy, iron-carved double doors of the War Room. The corridor outside was dead silent, but the thick, oppressive scent of raw alpha pheromones leaked through the cracks in the wood, making my human lungs strain for air. “Wait here,” the guard began, reaching for the door handles. “No,” I hissed. I shoved past him, threw my weight against the heavy iron doors, and slammed them open with a deafening crash that echoed off the high, vaulted ceilings. The entire room froze. The council elders were gone, but the remnants of a fourteen-hour political war were scattered everywhere—crumpled scrolls, spilled wine, and deep claw marks gouged into the ancient stone table. Silas was standing at the far end of the room by the grand windows, his tall frame silhouetted against the dark night sky. His leather tunic was unbuttoned at the collar, his dark hair disheveled, and he looked entirely exhausted. When the doors slammed open, his silver e

Cora’s POVThe heavy oak doors of the grand ballroom slammed shut behind me, instantly cutting off the suffocating, deafening roar of the fractured court.Outside in the corridor, the air was cooler, but the static of Silas’s raw Alpha aura still hung thick in the air, making my skin prickle. Behind those closed doors, Silas was completely surrounded by Cassian and a frantic wall of Council Elders, all trying to contain the political explosion he had just ignited by nearly ripping Alpha Theron’s throat out on the banquet table.But I didn’t care about the politics. I didn’t care about the northern alliance. My only priority was my son.During the peak of the violence, Mina had wisely hurried Leo out of the ballroom through the side exits to protect him from the crushing pressure of the King’s aura. I needed to hold him. I needed to see his face and reassure him that his father was protecting us.I smoothed down the heavy silk of my emerald gown, forcing my breath to steady as I hurrie

Silas’s POVThe royal medical wing smelled of copper, antiseptic, and the suffocating scent of my own raw, decaying panic.“His core temperature is still rising, Alpha King! We’ve flooded his line with traditional cooling salves, but the fever isn’t environmental—it’s spiritual! His human heart is trying to pump against the baseline frequency of a high-tier royal wolf. The biological pressure is tearing his vessels apart!”I didn’t listen to the rest of Head Physician Jonas’s frantic explanations. I didn’t care about the medical terminology.I stood over the steel-reinforced medical pod, my hands gripping the edge of the metal frame so hard the alloy groaned and warped beneath my claws. Down inside the sterile sheets, my four-year-old son was vibrating. His chest was hitching in rapid, agonizingly shallow patterns, and beneath his pale, sweat-soaked skin, faint, tracer-thin lines of iridescent silver light were pulsing erratically along his veins.The Silver Fire. The curse of my

Silas’s POVThe frozen parchment beneath my clawed hand felt like an executioner’s block. As my royal blood seeped into the fibers of the decree, a sudden, agonizing sensation ripped straight through the center of my chest.It wasn’t a physical wound. It was the alchemical snapping of the ancient, invisible tether that bound my soul to the Silver Moon territory. For generations, the Vane lineage had been anchored to the land, our raw strength fed by the literal soil, forests, and spiritual frequency of the pack lines we ruled. Now, that metaphysical bond was violently tearing away. A hollow, freezing void expanded in my ribcage as the territory’s collective energy rejected me, recognizing that its sovereign had just voluntarily cast himself into the dark.My inner wolf let out a pathetic, muffled whimper, crouching low in the recesses of my mind as its royal authority was stripped away piece by piece, leaving me feeling exposed, unranked, and completely hollowed out.