Semua Bab CHOSEN BY RUIN: Bab 51 - Bab 54

LILIANAI didn’t realize that I’ve been running until the cold night air outside hits my face.One moment, I am standing inside that hall, staring at the woman who has occupied so many of my childhood memories, and the next, my feet are carrying me away from the celebration as though my body has decided that I need to escape before my mind can understand what it has just seen.I push through the back exit I just discovered without thinking and stumble into the darkness outside.The heavy door closes behind me, muffling the music and voices from the hall, but my heart is still pounding so violently that I can hear it in my ears.My entire body is trembling.I walk a few steps into the garden before I have to stop, my hand reaching for the stone railing beside the path. I lean over it, dragging in a deep breath that does almost nothing to calm me.The building lights spill across the garden, illuminating the carefully trimmed hedges, the winding stone paths, and the flowers that sway ge

XADENGanxu, an old mage from Dahla, once prophesied to my mother that only a white wolf who carried the lightning crest would be my mate and lift my curse.She would be the only one who could survive me.At the time, it had sounded like a death sentence disguised as hope.Because white wolves didn’t exist. Not anymore.They hadn’t existed for decades, and even the elders spoke of them like myths that had already faded into nothing.The possibility of one appearing again was said to be almost nonexistent.So my mother had shifted her focus.If a white wolf could not be found, then the next best thing was a woman who carried the lightning crest.And over the years, they’ve brought five women to me.One after the other.Five attempts to make the prophecy real.Each one had been presented to me with certainty, with promises that this time it was right.And each time, I had done what was expected of me.I had mated with them on the 9th floor, under Ganxu’s supervision.And each time, with