The Werewolf's Bride
The air here was colder, heavier, scented with faint jasmine, the same perfume that had clung to Seraphine’s ghostly form.
Kael stepped forward first. His fingers brushed the book’s cover, hesitant, reverent. “She hid it here. The full prophecy. The ritual.”
Elara moved beside him. The bond pulsed, urgent, warning. “We shouldn’t open it without knowing what it does.”
But Kael was already lifting the chain. The lock snapped open at his touch, blood recognition. The tome fell open with a soft sigh, pages yellowed but intact.
Words in an ancient script glowed faintly as they read: