All Chapters of I Refused my Alpha : Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

Eryx screamed as the black crown sank deeper into his skull. Dark veins spread across his face, and his silver eyes turned completely black. The ancient man’s shadow rose behind him, stretching across the chamber like a second body. “After all these centuries,” the voice whispered, “I finally have a worthy vessel.” Eryx struggled against it. “I am no one’s vessel!” The shadow laughed. “You have spent your entire existence stealing hearts, names and authority. Did you truly believe you would never become the victim of your own hunger?” The black crown tightened. Eryx dropped to one knee. Asterion stared at him. “Now you know what it feels like to have your life taken from you.” Eryx lifted his head. “You should be thanking me. Without me, you would still be nothing.” “I was something before you stole my name.” Asterion’s silver eyes burned. “And I am something now.” He turned away from Eryx and approached Karl. The two ancient wolves stared at each other. For a moment

“Seraphine…”The grandmother’s voice broke as she stared at the silver figure.The woman standing beside Malachar looked exactly like the memory they had seen. Her white-flower crown shimmered, and her silver eyes carried a sadness that seemed older than the first world.Malachar struggled out of Eryx’s grip.“Mother, is it really you?”Seraphine reached for his cheek.“My beautiful boy.”He closed his eyes as her fingers touched his face.“I thought you were dead.”“I was. But some promises are stronger than death.”Eryx staggered backward.“Stop this.”Seraphine turned toward him.For the first time, the ancient king looked afraid.“You promised to protect him,” she said.“I did everything for him!”“You taught him to fear the world. You turned his childhood into a preparation for war.”“I wanted him to survive!”“No. You wanted him to become powerful enough that nobody could ever challenge you.”Eryx’s face twisted.“You abandoned me!”Seraphine looked at him sadly.“I loved you. B

The symbol beneath Lyra’s feet ignited.Silver chains erupted from the ground, wrapping around her ankles and wrists. She gasped as an unbearable force dragged her toward the original heart.“LYRA!”Karl lunged forward.A golden barrier exploded around him, but the chains tightened before he could reach her.The First Hunger’s laughter filled the chamber.“Finally. The first command has awakened.”Eshara’s face went pale.“No. That command was destroyed with the first world.”“Destroyed?” The shadow tilted its enormous head. “You cannot destroy what you were born to obey.”Lyra struggled against the chains.“What does it want from me?”Eshara stepped closer, tears gathering in her eyes.“It wants you to return to the beginning. You were the first possibility I carried. Before Aurelia, before Nythara, before Orin. My father placed a command inside your existence so he could reclaim what he believed belonged to him.”Lyra stared at her.“Then why did you hide me?”“Because I knew what h

Nobody moved.Lyra stood in the centre of the chamber, silver light flickering beneath her skin. The little girl’s memories had returned, but they had brought something far more dangerous with them.A truth.The grandmother slowly lowered her hands.“Lyra, listen to me.”“Did you help him create the first command?”Eshara turned sharply.“Mother?”The grandmother closed her eyes.“I did.”The words struck the chamber harder than any explosion.Aurelia stepped forward, disbelief written across her face.“You helped Father bind your own granddaughter?”“I did not know what he intended to do with her!”The First Hunger chuckled.“She knew enough.”The grandmother’s silver crown trembled.“Be silent!”The shadow spread its wings.“Tell them how you gave me the first law. Tell them how you helped me separate Asha’s memory from her living soul.”Eshara stared at her mother.“You told me you had no part in it.”“I was trying to protect you.”“By helping him?”The grandmother’s expression bro

The small hand reached farther through the silver crack.The grandmother stumbled backward.“No…”Eshara caught her.“Mother, who is inside that heart?”The grandmother couldn’t answer.Her eyes were fixed on the tiny fingers emerging from the light.Aurelia approached cautiously.“Is this another memory?”“No,” the grandmother whispered. “It’s a soul.”The First Hunger, still weakened, suddenly lifted his head.“Ah. So the little secret has finally awakened.”Lyra turned toward him.“You knew about this?”“Of course. I was there when she gave birth to it.”The grandmother’s face twisted with pain.“Don’t speak about my child.”The shadow laughed.“You hid the child inside the original heart and convinced yourself that no one would ever find it.”Eshara stared at her mother.“You had another child?”The grandmother nodded slowly.“Before I became your mother, before I gave you the first spark of creation, I had a child. A little boy.”A silver tear rolled down her cheek.“He was born