Withering Glare Novels & Stories

His arms were wrapped around my waist. A hot surge of anger rose. I wanted to rip the photo down and smash it on the concrete floor, watch the glass explode into a million pieces. For some reason I didn’t move. Instead I stared until the image blurred and the smile belonged to someone I once knew.

leaving me and the rest of us inside the room with his ferocious glare that would instantly send anyone who sees it in their worst nightmares. ***

His lips twitched into a knowing smirk as he looked down at me with his most disappointed glare. "You do't deserve to have a mate. You should be thankful that I am even letting you live after what you did," he lowered to my eye level and hissed in my face. I felt suffocated under the weight of his hateful glare. I wanted to give him a comeback. There were so many things I could say in my defense but for some reason words failed to make it out of my mouth. His baleful glare stripped me off of my confidence to defend myself. Instead tears pricked the back of my eyes.

for Kaden's army, had to walk. The sun pulled itself out of the horizon. It looked like mist, but slowly, it unfuzzed, the light tempering into a solid circle of gold. The glare stung my eyes, and I had to push my hair over my face to prevent myself from staring at the sky head on.

“It’s here for the girl.” Varek didn’t answer. He didn’t need to. Every wolf in the clearing knew. The Watcher took a slow step backward, its glowing eyes never leaving Varek’s. It melted into the mist, its form dissolving into shadow and fog, leaving behind claw marks etched deep into the soil—a silent threat. The buzzing whisper that had haunted them faded with its departure, but the forest remained heavy, suffocating, as though it had claimed the clearing as its own.

Wilbur let out a long breath. That was his first time carving a formation onto an object. It was a light-based defense formation called the Glow Shield and was considered to be a pretty easy formation. The Glow Shield could deflect most mortal attacks once. That included strong collisions and bullets. However, it would only work once and lose its effects after that. That was probably enough for Faye and might even save her life one day. Wilbur nodded with satisfaction. He put the jade away and headed out to a jeweler in the city.

The wind howled mournfully, whipping her dark hair about her face in wild tendrils. But it wasn't just the weather that sent shivers down her spine—it was the figure standing before her, a twisted reflection of herself. Its eyes glowed with a feral light, glinting like shards of shattered glass in the moonlight. Its lips peeled back in a snarl, revealing gleaming, razor-sharp teeth that dripped with blood.

This time, Alex was staring back at her with what she could only describe as a death glare. She shivered, that was no Softie…

The sky didn't just go dark; it went sterile. As the Auditor’s crystalline sails unfurled across the orbital plane, they didn't merely block the sun’s light—they filtered its frequency. The "Golden Equilibrium" that had bathed the world in a protective, amber warmth was being systematically stripped away. Through his violet eye, Kael watched the Photonic Depletion in real-time. The vibrant gold of Lyra’s legacy was being replaced by a flat, matte gray.