All Chapters of Marked by the Wolf King: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

31 Chapters

The Golden Woman

Zara’s POV I had not known Kira for long, but if there was one thing I had noticed about her, it was that she was strong and mature. So why was she claiming to see a woman behind me? And why is the woman telling her my name was not Zara?For several long seconds, neither Karl nor I said a word. We did not know how to react to what she said. The only sound in the room came from Kira's soft breathing as she continued staring past my shoulder, with an expression that was enough to prove that a woman was truly behind me.Karl was the first to react. “Kira,” he said gently, holding her hands. “Who told you that?”“The lady?” Kira said, not moving her gaze. “Don’t you see her?”“Kira, there is no lady there,” Karl said. I could see the worry in his eyes. A lot has happened in the past few days; he didn’t know what to believe anymore.“There is.” She sounded so certain that someone was there, and so scared that we weren’t seeing her, too.“Kira.” Karl was trying to steady his voice so as no

The Vanishing

Karl’s POVZara frowned. “Can you ask her who she is?” Kira finally smiled. “I already did.” Her eyes remained fixed on the space behind Zara. Every instinct inside me screamed that nothing was there. Yet Kira looked at someone. The chambers. The poison.Maybe her head had not fully recovered.“What did she say?” Zara asked.Kira blinked in confusion. “But…she said…you already know her.” I looked at Zara immediately. The color drained from her face.“No…I don’t.” Zara replied. Kira shook her head. Then gently pulled free from my grip before extending her hand toward Zara. “She said…stretch out your hands like this. She says…you will remember.”The room suddenly felt colder, and every instinct I had as a warrior screamed that something bad was about to happen. Something was wrong. Very wrong. I couldn’t see anyone. I could not hear another heartbeat. But something suddenly lingered in the air the moment Kira uttered those words.Zara slowly raised her hand, but I caught her wrist im

The aftermath

Ryan’s POV By the time I reached the chamber, every guard in the palace had already gathered outside, but no one dared to enter.Not after seeing Karl act that way.Not after seeing blood dripping from his hand.They just stood outside the chamber frozen, waiting for the next order, their weapons drawn, exchanging uncertain glances but refusing to enter. After everything that had unraveled the past day, fear had settled over the palace. Even the seasoned warriors looked ready for the worst. The moment they saw me, they stepped aside without a word. “Leave,” I said once and immediately went back to their previous post.Karl entered the room after I did; his clothes were stained with blood, his breathing was still uneven, and his gaze was fixed on the empty space in front of him. I was sure the only thing on his mind was Kira. She had just recovered.I looked around the chamber and everywhere looked…untouched. Well, apart from the mess Karl made, there were no collapsed walls, no sig

Beyond the Veil

Zara’s POV The first thing I became aware of was the sound. It was different.It wasn’t screaming.It wasn’t wolves.It wasn’t Ryan's cold voice ordering someone to die.I could not hear a single heartbeat.It was the steady rhythm of waves crashing against the shore.The sound came slowly and peacefully, as if it had been waiting for me to wake. I could feel one wave roll toward the shore before retreating into the endless sea, only for me to feel another replace it a few seconds later. The rhythm was strangely comforting, yet unfamiliar. I lay perfectly still. Normally, I would have forced my eyes open, but something about this felt safe.My entire body ached.Not the sharp pain I had felt in the palace. That pain had vanished.This was different.I felt exhausted, as though I had spent days running without stopping. It felt like I could not move even if I wanted to. My head throbbed heavily, and every breath I took into my lungs felt heavier than the last. The salty air filled my

A mother’s embrace

Zara's POVFor a long moment, I simply stood there, frozen, unable to make my body move. I wanted to argue; I didn’t want to accept that all this was true, but…my body punished me each time I tried to reject the truth.The cottage suddenly felt small, not because of its size, no, it looked much bigger on the inside. But because everything inside pressed against memories that were buried so deeply, I had spent years believing they never existed.The scent of the dried flowers hanging from the beams, the crackling fire warming the room, the blanket folded neatly across the chair by the window. The familiarity settled in my head with a painful certainty. None of it felt new. It felt like something I was used toI had never seen this place before. But I knew it, every corner of it.Then my eyes returned to the woman; she hadn’t moved. She held Kira the same way she held me years back, watching me with those same golden eyes I had seen inside the memories. Her eyes held so much warmth and p

The past

Zara’s POV My mother didn’t answer my question. Instead, she simply looked at me. The same people, old-time friends, looked at one another after years apart. Her eyes wandered over every part of my face and all over my body, as if she were trying to memorize me all over again. Her fingertips then again brushed gently through my hair before lingering against my cheek. Almost like she was trying to remind herself that all that was happening was real and not another dream that would disappear the moment she reached for it.“I used to wonder…” she whispered, “…how much taller you had become.”I gave her a soft smile. And she smiled back, but not a happy one.“I wondered whether your hair would stay this dark.” She tucked a loose strand behind my ear. ‘Whether your eyes would still shine the way they used to when you laughed.” Her voice was cracking. “I even wondered if you still hated vegetables.Despite all that had happened, all that I had painfully discovered, a small laugh escaped me

Echoes of the forgotten.

Zara’s POV “I crossed the wolf territory, convinced of who the real monster was,” I said.My mother’s expression crumbled before my eyes. She looked heartbroken; she looked at me with the same sadness she had worn since I started telling her all that had happened, but something else settled beneath it. Guilt.The kind that she had buried for years, but resurfaced the moment I told her all about it. “My sunshine…” she whispered. “You carried all that alone.”I looked away. I didn’t want to cry anymore. “I didn’t think I was alone.” My fingers tightened against the fabric of my worn-out cloth. “I believed my life was…normal.”“No child should think losing her own memories is normal.”“I didn’t know they were memories.”“I am glad the humans didn’t realize what you were. I can’t imagine what they would have done to you.” The certainty in her voice made my chest tighten. I didn’t reply to her; I did not know how to.“Sometimes I dreamed about the sea. I used to think it was my imaginati

The pathway

Zara’s POV The warm water spilled slowly over my shoulder. The feeling was nothing I could describe, but the water carried away layers of dried blood, dirt, and exhaustion that had clung to my skin longer than they should have. I closed my eyes and simply stood there, letting the water run over my skin while steam gathered around until it felt like the outside world had disappeared. I hadn’t realized how heavy my body had become until that very moment.Every bruise left by the werewolves, by the humans, every ache from Ryan's relentless interrogations, every wound earned while Ryan practically killed me in the Chamber. Nothing can make me like him. he knew what I was yet…I took a deep sigh.The water turned faintly pink as it circled the drain, washing away the last bit of blood that made me a little human. I found myself staring at it till the pink slowly turned to white. A few days ago, I would have never paid any attention to it; it would have been silly to question something as o

The price of power

Zara’s POV “I was going to teach you slowly but…” she swallowed, and her voice dropped to a whisper. “…if the palace is awake…I have to teach you before it's too late.”What was going on? I stared at her longer than I should, trying to understand the sudden fear, but the more I looked at her face, the more I realized that she was not exaggerating. My mother is one of the strongest I know; if she is acting like this. Something must have gone wrong. The woman who had smiled at me only a moment ago, who laughed even when my jokes were bad, when I told her I still hated vegetables.My hands tightened around hers. “Too late for what?” I asked. But she did not answer me again. “Mother, please, you are scaring me.” The moment those words came out of my mouth, her golden eyes met mine again. “What does it mean that the palace has awakened?”I took a deep sigh and looked towards the window instead of answering me. Beyond the glass, the ocean remained beautiful and peaceful. I started to think

The king beyond the veil.

Zara’s POV I knew those heartbeats.I had heard them in the darkness. I had heard them between life and death, when my body was changing, and my mind was trying to make sense of what I was becoming. One of them was Karl’s. I would recognize it anymore. The other was stronger, steadier, and had a way of calming me down; it was far more difficult to mistake. Ryan.My entire body went rigid; how did they find this place? Did they know about it all this while? My eyes just remained fixed on the door. For a moment, I couldn’t breathe. It felt like I hadn’t seen him in a long time. A lot had happened since I had last looked into his cold eyes. I had found my mother. I had remembered the childhood I never knew I had lived. I had discovered my entire foundation was built on lies.And he was about to walk into the end of all places he could have found me; he had found me here.I looked at my mother immediately. The warmth that filled her face earlier had disappeared completely. She was no lon

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