His Rejected Luna, His Hidden Son
Behind me, the king stopped being a man.
I didn't see the shift — I was already past the junction, hauling our son toward the east branch — but I felt it through the bond like a furnace door thrown open: the bones, the fury, the ancient thing he kept chained under all that control coming up into the light. Then the tunnel filled with sound. Snarling. Steel on something that wasn't steel. The wet, terrible noise of a Lycan king who had spent twenty-four years not being allowed to lose anyone else, deciding that tonight, no one got past him.