Nyxara Rising
The wolf howled, and her power detonated, blasting the collectors through walls, through layers of steel and concrete, as if the building itself was nothing.
Then—silence, heavy and final.
Nyxara stood alone amid the wreckage, breath coming in ragged bursts, blood streaming from the sigil on her side. It wasn’t fatal, but it burned with a promise of more to come.
Her rival mate was instantly at her side, voice tight with worry. “They marked you.”
“I know,” she snapped, pain sharpening her words. “I fucking feel it.”
The displays around them flickered back to life. Across every screen, in brutal white letters, a message blazed: