Claimed by the cruel lycan king
"We're not attempting to open anything, Elena. We're attempting to seize control of what already exists — to bind the Hollow King's remaining power to our own bloodlines rather than leave it dormant, wasted, protecting territories that have never once acknowledged our claim to what we believe rightfully belongs to the old lines. Your bond with Kade, offered here, becomes the key that transfers that binding to us instead of simply maintaining what your King's father established generations ago."
The scope of it landed heavy and horrifying — not simple destruction, but theft, an attempt to seize ancient, terrible power and redirect it entirely toward purposes I couldn't begin to fully understa