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Lyra’s POVThe growl rolled low and deliberate across the darkening garden, and every muscle in my body tensed at once, adrenaline from the fight with Cassian flooding back into my veins before I’d even fully caught my breath.“Cassian,” I called out, my voice steadier than I felt. “If that’s one of your men, I’d call him off before I lose what little patience I have left tonight.”No answer came, only the slow, deliberate rustle of movement shifting through the hedges at the garden’s edge, and I backed toward the center of the open space, giving myself room, silver light already gathering faint and ready around my fingertips.A shape finally separated itself from the shadows, and my breath caught as it emerged into the thin moonlight. It wasn’t one of Cassian’s guards. It wasn’t a wolf at all, not in the way I understood the word. The creature that padded into view stood low and lean, its fur a deep, oil-black that seemed to drink in the moonlight rather than reflect it, and its eyes

Lyra’s POVI spun toward the sound of his voice, silver light flaring instinctively around both hands despite the exhaustion already dragging at every limb. “Show yourself,” I called into the smoke.“In due time.” Tobias Vale’s voice drifted closer, unhurried, carrying easily over the roar of the flames and the shouting villagers still fighting to contain them. “I prefer to watch a performance from the best seat available, and tonight, Lyra Ashwood, you are giving quite the performance.”Kieran stepped close beside me, his eyes scanning the tree line with the same desperate urgency I felt clawing at my own chest. “He’s toying with you.”“I know.” My jaw tightened. “That’s exactly what worries me.”A fresh crash sounded from somewhere behind us, another section of roof collapsing under its own weight, and the villagers’ shouts grew more frantic as the fire line shifted, flames now licking hungrily toward the storage barns Kieran had warned me about moments earlier. If those caught, the

Lyra’s POVThe letter with the crescent seal sat unopened in the bottom of my travel chest for three days before the party finally arrived, tucked beneath a folded shawl where I wouldn’t have to look at it every time I dressed. I told myself I would read it once the celebration had passed, once I had a single evening to simply breathe without another impossible choice waiting to unravel everything I’d rebuilt.Tonight, I wanted to be ordinary. Just for a few hours.The courtyard had been transformed almost beyond recognition, lanterns strung in warm, glowing rows between the trees, long tables draped in pale gold cloth and laden with more food than I’d seen since my return. Musicians tuned their instruments near the garden’s edge, and the scorch marks from the fire, still visible if you looked closely enough, had been softened beneath garlands of fresh flowers woven through every post and archway.I stood in front of the small mirror in my room, smoothing the fabric of the gown Elara

Lyra’s POV“I personally instructed your sister to put the weakening substance in your drink,” Cassian said, pulling his full weight on me and pinning me down in my arms layer on the bed that I can't move my body. His expression carrying none of the warmth he’d worn in the garden only days earlier. “Since you always act like such a jerk, as though Silver Moon Academy has somehow given you all the power in this universe.”The words landed harder than any physical blow could have, each syllable dragging me further beneath the cold understanding of exactly what I’d walked back into when I’d trusted him, even for a moment, to care.Cassian’s hand tightened around my wrist, and he leaned closer, his breath warm and triumphant against my ear. “You know what I’ll do,” he murmured. “I will mark you by biting you, and we will be bound by my blood. We will be fated mates to each other, whether the Moon Goddess ever intended it or not, and no one is coming to save you. I’m for you, and you alone