Marked by the Lycan King
Lyra Voss is a curse-born Omega in the Ashcroft Pack, blamed for her parents' deaths, cast out by the only family she had left, and carrying a secret she doesn’t yet understand. She has silver eyes that nobody can explain and a bloodline everyone believes is extinct.
King Jasper Vael has spent his life building a kingdom on iron and silence. He has never been shaken. Not until the night the mate bond snapped into place in the middle of a public ceremony linking him to an Omega cursed with the blood of those who destroy. He rejected her immediately. Completely. Publicly.
He has been looking for her ever since.
Now Lyra is pregnant, cast out, and running from rogues when a rival Alpha finds her at his border and takes her in without asking questions, she is not ready to answer. She has twin daughters, no pack, no protection and no idea that the Lycan King’s most trusted Beta has been feeding information to the enemy for years or that a silver-laced poison is slowly killing Caspian’s mother and no healer in any pack can stop it.
Except the last living descendant of the Moonborn Healers. The girl he called an insult. The woman who survived him. The mate he needs to beg.
Some bloodlines cannot stay buried. Some bonds cannot be broken. And some kings must choose between the throne they built and the woman the moon chose for them.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter Nine: He Is ComingRowan brought me the message himself. He held it out without having opened it the seal was intact, the wax pressed with the Vael crest, unbroken. It’s addressed to you,’ he said simply.I took it. I turned it over. My name was not on it just the description. The silver-eyed female of Ashcroft blood. As if he did not yet know my name, or had chosen not to use it, or was making a point about what he knew and what he was choosing to withhold.I broke the seal and read it. The handwriting was precise and controlled, every letter formed with the exactness of someone for whom imprecision was not a category they operated in. It said:I am aware of your location. I am aware of what you carry. I will arrive at Ashdale in three days. I ask that you remain.It was signed: J. Vael.I read it twice. Then I folded it along its original crease and held it in both hands and said: ‘He knows about the baby.’The room was very quiet. Sera, standing near the window, had gone very still. Rowan’s expressio
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Chapter: Chapter Eight: The Silver ThingI woke Sera at two in the morning. She was awake before I finished knocking, which told me she had not been asleep. ‘My eyes,’ I said. In the mirror. They were glowing.She sat up. She did not look surprised. She looked like someone who had been waiting for a specific thing to be confirmed and was now deciding what to do with the confirmation.‘Tell me exactly what it looked like.’I told her. Silver light, steady, not flickering. The same warmth that came with the moonlight on my skin but concentrated in my eyes. Not frightening, which was perhaps the strangest part. It had felt, looking at my own reflection, like recognition.Sera was quiet for a moment. Then: ‘I need to tell you what I found in my father’s books.’ I sat on the edge of her bed. ‘Tell me.’She had been piecing it together since the river, she said, since the morning she had watched the silver light change my eyes in the water’s reflection. The books her father kept in his study old pack records, histories from before
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Chapter: Chapter Seven: The Morning AfterI woke up in a bed. That sounds like nothing. It is not nothing. I have slept in beds my entire life, technically a narrow one in my aunt’s house with a spring that pressed into my hip if I turned wrong and a blanket that was never quite enough in winter.But I had never woken up in a bed that felt like it had been made with someone’s comfort in mind. A mattress that held me instead of resisting me. Pillows that smelled of clean linen rather than the particular staleness of things that are washed only when necessary.I lay still for a long moment and let myself feel the absence of dread.Every morning in my aunt’s house I had woken up knowing what the day would cost me before it started. The particular weight of a life lived in obligation to people who resented the obligation. Here there was just: morning. Light through a curtain. The distant sound of a pack house beginning its day.I sat up slowly. My hip protested it had been wrapped while I slept, a clean bandage applied with the pr
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-27
Chapter: Chapter Six: What Rowan DecidedWith Rowan gone to the border and Cole occupied with the pack’s response to the Ashcroft wolves, I had the room and the quiet and the uninterrupted space to think for the first time since the ceremony.I made a list in my head the way my father had taught me, apparently, though I knew nothing about him except that he had existed and then stopped existing when I was nine. Some things you carry without knowing where you got them. The habit of making lists under pressure was one of mine.What I had: myself. The baby ten weeks, invisible still, alive. The silver thing in my skin that I did not understand but that had not hurt me yet. Sera, somewhere in Ashcroft, who had said I’m with you and had meant it. A debt to an Alpha I had known for less than twelve hours, which sat uneasily because debts always cost more than they appear.What I needed: safety for long enough to understand what I was carrying and what was happening to my body. Answers about the moonlight and the shimmer and the sil
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Chapter: Chapter Five: The Border and the AlphaI ran. I can’t shift, my wolf is exhausted and my body is carrying something I will not risk so I run on human legs through the dark and the crashing behind me gets closer and I thought with the part of my brain that is still functional: so, this is how it ends. Cast out of my pack and eaten by rogues before the sun comes up. Classic.I trip on a root. I go down hard, hands out, and the ground comes up fast and I think: the baby. I twist at the last second, take it on my hip and shoulder, and land badly but not catastrophically. I scramble to get up.The rogues break from the trees. Three of them, shifted, red-eyed, the kind of wolves that have been outside pack law long enough to forget they were ever inside it. They move with the particular looseness of things that have stopped caring about consequences. I back up against a tree. My hip is screaming. My hands are bleeding. I have no wolf, no pack, no weapon, and nowhere left to run.Something then happens.I don’t understand it. The
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Chapter: Chapter Four: The Elder’s VerdictMy aunt finds out in week three. Not because she is observant, she has never been particularly observant about anything that doesn’t affect her directly but because the laundry maid tells her.I have been careful. Sera has been more careful. But the laundry maid has eyes and an arrangement with my aunt that I was not aware of, and so at dinner on a Tuesday, my aunt says my name in the voice that has meant trouble since I was nine.I go to her. She tells me to sit. I sit. She asks me directly. I could lie. I have considered it. I am not good at lying and she is very good at identifying it, and I’m tired so tired, the kind of tired that goes bone-deep after weeks of keeping every emotion exactly where it won’t be seen so I told her the truth.She does not shout. That has always been the thing about Aunt Mira: she is most frightening when she is quiet. She sits across from me at the kitchen table with her hands folded and her face composed and says: ‘You have shamed this household.’I kn
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