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Finally focusing, my eyes land on three females who hold their hands out at Mathias and bare their human teeth in warning to him. It’s my turn to gasp, and maybe growl a little when my eyes land on the figure lying behind the three females. A mass of white straggly hair covers the female form. Beneath the rags of white that hold blood and dirt, feet and hands poked out. With skin as dark as onyx I can already guess who it is. Ashe the first. Or as some know her in this day and age - Odeia. “You dare to show your face!” Arcas growls taking over Mathias. The beast shone through the human form's eyes, his aura pouring out suffocating the rest of the room. Fur sprouts over his arms and claws beg

She had her eyes closed, carefully inspecting her sea of consciousness. There were Assea's figure and a big dark blue ball that constantly emitted a pressure over the sea. Nevertheless, they didn't manage to create any ripple on the water representing Sara's mental energy. Two runes stood at the center of the sphere, both of them were covered by blood red roots that formed the diagram of the bloodline form. There was only stillness, nothing seemed to be able to shake the environment inside Sara's mind. Lucinda opened her eyes. A wave of coldness invaded the room, her aura was overwhelming.

In fact, it seemed to be even worse now than when I was actually in heat. Sage wolves had also been arriving from the human towns close by. They were wary but they were all put together in one house to await my arrival. Instead of trying to restore their powers one after the other, which would take a lot of time, I instructed them to make a circle and joined in. It took a lot of focus but I was able to share some of my essence within minutes. The hard part was finding the hole in each person and filling it up so they would regain their powers just like Theia’s parents. Theia and her parents had also returned but they reassured me that more sage wolves were still on their way here. I asked Th

Shoulders like a god carved in night. Eyes that weren’t human—silver in the shadows, gold in the moon. He stood between the rows of dying apple trees, and the world bent toward him like gravity answering to its true master. He whispered: “Zenaida…” My lungs collapsed. My heart stuttered. “My name,” I croaked, “is Asaraiah.” A small smile tugged his mouth. Not gentle. Not cruel. Just… knowing. “No,” he said. “Not only.” Behind me, Malrik snarled—half beast, half man, fully lethal.

Aria's POV By the time dawn began to thin the darkness outside my windows, my eyes felt like sandpaper. The laptop screen before me glowed dully on the dining table, several search tabs open. Academic archives, forbidden forums, half-dead occult blogs, even old coven registries that hadn't been updated in ages. I had chased every lead I could find, but I found nothing leading to the Ashkara Circle. Every reference outside the strange website Maya had managed to stumble on only lopped back on itself.

"Brokers. Small-time operators. People who move money and information through the underground. Some of them work for Jerald. Some of them work for themselves. All of them are useful." That night, Mark spreads the contents of the folder across his desk. Papers, photographs, handwritten notes. He points to each one and gives me a name. "Sophia Chen. She runs a money transfer service. Cash only. No questions asked. If you need to move money without a trace, you go to her." "Marcus Webb. He is an information broker. He knows everything that happens in the underground. For a price, he will tell you." "Elena Vasquez. She owns a club that never closes. If you need to find someone, she knows where t

But the only reply was the hollow echo of her own voice. AN ARCADE Naomi didn’t know what she was expecting when Matteo had called her and asked her to get ready for their date , she had been so nervous that she found it difficult to find the perfect outfit but she later went for a casual look , a white crop top , with a shirt , a blue jean and a white sneakers. Now she was, staring up at the flashing neon lights of an arcade. She blinked, glancing from the bright machines to Matteo, who stood beside her with his hands in his pockets, completely unfazed. "An arcade? "she asked slowly. "This is where you brought me?"

I repeated, the words tasting like ash. “Yeah,” he said, finally looking at me, his eyes filled with a desperate, pleading sincerity. “But I didn’t reciprocate, Aria. I swear to God, I didn’t. I pushed her away. I told her it was a mistake. That it couldn’t happen again.”

However, the word he had earlier heard interrupted his flow of thoughts, and the emotions that were creeping into him. Arthmata, Arthmata, Arthmata. The words resounded in his head in the very manner and pace the woman had said it. It, however, sounded more of a ghostly echo. Who was that woman? And what the hell is Arthmata? The woman looked worried when he met her. Their car had rammed into a truck. However, one thing caught his eye- Her eyes. When he first saw them, the top right quarter of her iris was red, the top left corner green, a the lower right quarter blue and the remaining quarter orange, and it seemed to glow dimly. The pupil was black, but it was blacker that the pupil anyone

Each wall shimmered with scenes from Rowan’s memories Aria giving birth, Kael’s rage, Selene’s betrayal, Elara’s laughter. “Stop it!” Aria shouted. “Let us go!” The Architect circled Rowan. “You were born under both moons. Marked not by prophecy, but *paradox.* The Vessel and the Anchor both within you.” “I don’t know what that means!” Rowan said. “You will.” With a single gesture, the Architect pressed a hand to Rowan’s chest. And Rowan screamed. Light burst from his eyes and mouth images flashing around him in a storm. Wolves turning to ash. Mountains crumbling. A sea of eyes opening beneath the earth.