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Chapter 42- Apologies

POV: Lyra Ashbourne I barely made it back to my room before I regretted leaving the council room so abruptly.It wasn’t because I thought I was wrong. I still believed everything I had said, but the look on Cassian’s face stayed with me. I had never seen him look at me like that before. He hadn’t looked angry, not exactly. There had been something else in his expression, something that looked almost like hurt.I closed the door behind me and leaned against it for a moment, listening to the silence around me. My eyes eventually moved toward Orion’s cradle, where he slept peacefully with one tiny hand resting beside his face.I walked over and stood beside him, watching his chest rise and fall beneath the blanket. He looked so peaceful, completely unaware of the argument downstairs or the secrets that seemed to be gathering around him. I reached down and gently touched his cheek.“I’m going to keep you safe,” I whispered.The words sounded different now because I wasn’t sure if I could

Last Updated : 2026-09-25

Chapter 43- Nine tailed wolf

POV: Lyra Ashbourne The next morning felt strangely normal, and somehow, that was what made me uneasy. The guards were still stationed along the corridor, the servants moved through the house as they always did, and Orion slept peacefully after breakfast. When I carried him into the sitting room, he spent most of the morning watching the sunlight move slowly across the wall as though there was nothing in the world worth worrying about. Nothing had changed, at least nothing that I could see. Still, I kept thinking about Cassian’s promise. No one will take him from you. I had believed him, and a part of me still wanted to. After our argument, something between us had settled. We weren’t completely back to the way things had been before, but the anger was gone. Cassian had spoken to me during breakfast, asked about Orion, and even smiled when Orion grabbed his finger and refused to let go. For a few hours, I allowed myself to forget the questions that had been troubling me. The

Last Updated : 2026-09-25

Chapter 44- Strange energy

POV: Lyra Ashbourne I barely slept that night. Every time I closed my eyes, I heard the stranger’s voice again, repeating the name I had never heard before.The Nine-Tailed Wolf.Somehow, the name had already found a place in my thoughts, and no matter how hard I tried to push it away, I kept wondering what it meant and why Cassian had known about it.More importantly, why had he never told me?By morning, I had made a decision. I wasn’t going to confront Cassian yet. Not until I understood what I was dealing with.If he was keeping something from me, I needed to know what it was before I asked him about it again. I needed something more than another argument and another promise that he was protecting me.The first person who came to mind was Rowan.He had been involved in everything concerning Orion from the beginning. He had examined him after he was born, searched his room when he disappeared, and studied the strange symbol that had appeared near the nursery. If anyone could tell

Last Updated : 2026-09-28

Chapter 45- Old records

POV: Lyra Ashbourne I spent the rest of the morning trying to convince myself that Rowan’s words had not frightened me.They had.I kept thinking about what he had said.Something is sleeping beneath the surface.I had heard warnings before, but this time felt different because Rowan had not spoken like someone simply repeating an old story. He had examined Orion himself. He had felt something inside him, something he could not explain, and I could tell from the look on his face that it concerned him.I carried Orion back to my room and placed him in his cradle while I changed his clothes. He was perfectly normal, smiling whenever I leaned over him and making small sounds whenever he wanted my attention.There was nothing frightening about him, nothing strange or threatening. He was simply my son.That was what made everything else so difficult to understand.How could someone so innocent be connected to something that frightened grown wolves?I sat beside his cradle for a while, wat

Last Updated : 2026-09-28

Chapter 46- Cassian is still suspicious

POV: Lyra Ashbourne I could not stop thinking about what I had found in the archives, and even after I returned to my room, the words from those old records continued to circle through my mind. I had read the same sentence so many times that I could almost picture the faded handwriting whenever I closed my eyes.A child born from the ancient bloodline will carry what was lost.I wanted to believe it had nothing to do with Orion. There had probably been many children born into ancient bloodlines throughout history, and the records were old enough that whatever they described could have happened generations before I was even born.There was no reason to assume they were talking about my son, and yet I could not completely dismiss the possibility.Orion stirred in his cradle, pulling me away from my thoughts, and when I walked over to him, he opened his eyes and reached for me. I picked him up and held him against my chest, allowing myself to focus on the familiar comfort of having him

Last Updated : 2026-09-28

Chapter 47- Missing pages??

POV: Lyra Ashbourne I didn’t go back to my room immediately.After leaving the old storage room, I walked through the eastern corridor without really knowing where I was going. Cassian’s words followed me, but the argument itself was not what bothered me most. I kept thinking about the look on his face when he saw the document, the brief change in his expression before he managed to hide it.He had recognized it.There was no doubt about that now, and if he already knew something about those records, then there had to be a reason he had never told me.Instead of returning to my room, I found myself heading back toward the archives.The elderly archivist looked up as I entered, and her expression changed almost immediately.“You found something.”It was not a question.I walked toward her desk and nodded. “I found an Ashbourne record in the eastern storage room.”She became still.“That room was supposed to remain sealed.”“It wasn’t.”She lowered her eyes for a moment before asking,

Last Updated : 2026-09-28

Chapter 48- Cassian curiosity

POV: Lyra Ashbourne The next morning, I woke with the same thought that had followed me to sleep.The missing pages.Someone had removed them by order of the council, and whoever had given that order had clearly wanted part of the Ashbourne history buried. The more I learned, the more questions I had, and somehow, no matter how far I tried to follow the clues, they always seemed to lead back to Orion.When I went to his cradle, I found him already awake, lying on his back with his legs moving beneath the blanket as he stared at the ceiling. The moment he noticed me, his eyes followed me across the room.“Good morning,” I whispered.I picked him up and held him against my chest, trying to push everything I had learned out of my mind. For a while, I managed to do exactly that. I carried him downstairs and settled near the windows while he played with the edge of my sleeve, completely unaware of the questions surrounding him.Sometimes I envied how easily he could exist without knowing

Last Updated : 2026-10-02

Chapter 49- Council divides

POV: Lyra Ashbourne By the following evening, I knew something had changed. No one had told me anything directly, which was part of what made the atmosphere around the territory so unsettling. People became quieter whenever I entered a room, conversations ended when I walked past, and even the guards seemed more alert than they had been before. I noticed it most when I carried Orion into the main hall and saw two elders speaking near the council chamber. Their voices dropped almost immediately when they noticed me. I kept walking. I had learned by then not to question every strange look or every conversation that stopped when I appeared. Still, this felt different from the secrecy surrounding the old records. Something was happening now, and I had a feeling it had something to do with my son. Orion had been unusually calm throughout the day, sleeping more than usual and spending his waking moments watching things around him that I could not see. Earlier that afternoon, he

Last Updated : 2026-10-02

Chapter 50

POV: Lyra Ashbourne The mark pulsed again, and this time the entire room seemed to react. The candle beside the window flickered violently, while a faint vibration travelled through the wooden floor beneath my feet. Orion’s hand was still raised toward the wall, his attention fixed on something I could not understand. I moved before I had time to think. I pulled him from the cradle and held him tightly against my chest, and the moment I did, the strange light disappeared. The vibration beneath the floor stopped, leaving the room so quiet that I could hear my own breathing. I looked back at the wall. The mark was still there, but it had returned to the dull, ancient shape I had seen before. Cassian hadn’t moved. His eyes remained fixed on the wall, and the expression on his face made it clear that whatever he had feared before had just become more real. “What was that?” I asked. He finally looked at me. “We need to leave.” “Why?” “Now.” There was something in his voice th

Last Updated : 2026-10-03

Chapter 51

POV: Lyra Ashbourne I barely slept that night because every time I closed my eyes, Rowan’s words came back to me. The baby was the hidden child, but there was another part of his story that I could not stop thinking about. The woman had asked his teacher to remember a name.My name.Lyra.For years, I had believed my life began with the memories I could actually recall. My mother, my father, Selene, the Ashbourne territory, and the quiet years before everything fell apart. Now I was beginning to understand that things had been happening around me long before I was old enough to notice them, things my family had never told me.By morning, I had made up my mind. I needed to see Rowan again.I found him in the healer’s room, sorting through several old bottles. He looked up as I entered, studying my face for a moment.“You didn’t sleep.”It wasn’t a question.“Neither did you.”A faint smile touched his face before disappearing.“I was expecting you.”I closed the door behind me.“You s

Last Updated : 2026-10-05

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