LOGINHansel’s POV“No…” The word barely left my lips.The battlefield had fallen into a silence so complete that even breathing sounded too loud.The crack in the earth pulsed beneath the blood-red moon.Dark wind poured from the opening, carrying whispers of demons that didn’t belong to this world.Mila was gone. Bastian was gone. And all I could see was Knox throwing himself toward the closing abyss.“MILA!”His roar shook the ruins, he was almost there but the ground beneath the altar collapsed completely, forcing everyone backward.Only Knox kept moving like nothing else existed to him. Not the collapsing ritual or the demon’s lingering magic.Not the armies watching in horror only Mila.He leaped again, his fingers stretched toward the darkness.“I’M COMING!”A pair of arms caught him around the waist.“No!” Conrad shouted, digging his heels into the broken stone.Knox fought like a wild beast. He slammed an elbow backward and Conrad staggered. Marcus was there a heartbeat later.The
Mila’s POVI pressed the dagger to his chest Pouring all my powers into that since strike, “If I go down, you go down with me” he said and stabbed me in the heart with his dagger.Everything collided at once. A deafening blast ripped through the ritual grounds, throwing everyone backward.The ancient altar cracked beneath our feet.For one impossible heartbeat, there was no sound only light.Then Bastian grabbed my arm and his eyes widened with disbelief.“You bitch…” he garbled Blood was dropping from his mouth now as we stood there with our daggers in each other, I could few my heartbeat slowing down and looosng connection with my bond.If I let Bastian go, he will take out the dagger snd all this would be for nothing, holding him like this even if it was killing me was the only option.The goddess’ power was tearing through the darkness inside him, the demon in him screamed.Its shriek echoed through every corner of the battlefield, all the void creatures froze. One by one, they
Mila’s POV“Knox!” My scream tore through the battlefield.The dust finally settled.My heart nearly stopped, Bastian had Knox.One arm was wrapped around my mate, keeping him upright as though he weighed nothing. Knox’s head hung low, his breathing was ragged, his body covered in wounds from their brutal duel.“Nikal…” I whispered.The cut on his neck was bleeding now, it would take only minutes for the blood to come out in torrents and kill him.The light in Knox’s eyes flickered weakly but he was still fighting and refusing to surrender.Bastian’s grip tightened just enough to make Knox grimace.Around us, the battlefield slowed down and even thr Void creatures waited for their masters command.Conrad took a step forward. “Let him go.”Marcus raised his sword. “You want a war? Fight me.”Hansel’s hands trembled as golden magic gathered around her fingers. Sasha and Marie stood shoulder to shoulder.Eric and Elise had finally broken through the enemy lines. Caleb and Henshaw reache
Mila’s POVThe moment I saw him, I let out a breath, Knox was here and he was alive and well.His eyes searched frantically through the smoke until they found mine and the moment they did…Everything else ceased to exist.“Mila!” His voice cracked and I got up from the floor, groaning as I ran toward him.I didn’t think or hesitate.I didn’t care that the battlefield around us was collapsing or even about the void creatures rushing past me.All I cared about was reaching him and Knox did the same, our feet pounded against broken stone.The distance between us shrank as we ran towards each other.Then I crashed into him. His arms wrapped around me so tightly my feet left the ground and he buried his face against my neck.For a long moment, neither of us spoke, Rina and Nikal purred and spoke to each other through the mate bond.We simply held each other as if letting go would make the other disappear.“I thought…” His voice broke. “I thought I’d lost you.”My own tears spilled freely
Mila’s POVThe Red Moon had risen, it’s crimson light stained the sky like spilled blood.It looked creepy and corrupted.I stood at the center of an enormous stone platform. Ancient runes covered every inch of the ground.Thousands of symbols carved by the maniac Bastian, some were glowing red and others black.All of them pulsing with dark energy, this was the ritual site and the location of the Underworld Gate.The place from every vision I had seen. And it was worse than I had imagined.Massive stone pillars surrounded the clearing, chains hung between them.Black fire burned in giant braziers.The air smelled like ash and the void creatures.Far below the platform stretched an endless abyss.A crack in the earth like a wound and deep inside it felt like something was trapped below. My stomach twisted.The demons were waiting there, waitingfor the gate to be open. My wrists were still bound by enchanted chains.The metal bit into my skin suppressing my magic and my connection
Elise’s pov Taking a shower before a Great War tomorrow, check.Taking the shower with Eric, check.Eric held my neck tenderly, peppering kisses there “Were supposed to get ready for bed” I told him pushing him away “You wound me” he said clutching his chest and falling into the tub dramatically, I rolled my eyes at him.“Knox said we should replenish our energy and im that’s what I want to do” he said and in one moment he pressed his lips to mine. Eric’s hands were on me instantly, rough and possessive, sliding over my wet skin as he backed me against the tiled wall. I could feel the heat radiating off his body, his cock was already hard and heavy against my thigh, throbbing with the same urgent need that pulsed between my legs.I arched into him, my nipples tightening under the cascading water as it streamed over my breasts. “Then stop wasting time and replenish your strength Eric”He chuckled and with one powerful motion, he spun me around, pressing my front against the cool,
Knox POVThe drive back to the pack felt endless and it didn’t sit well with me.Rain slammed violently against the armored vehicles while thunder cracked across the sky hard enough to shake the mountains around us.Every second dragged against my nerves like claws. The kind that made Nikal restle
Knox POVThr last few days was all about planning and preparing for war. That was all my life had become.Marcus’s kingdom no longer felt like a place of luxury to me now I saw it for what it truly was.The Alpha King had been preparing for war long before Bastian openly declared one.Which meant
Mila’s POV“Mate.”The word echoed across the palace entrance like a thunderclap everything stopped completely.Even the guards lining the stairs looked stunned.Hansel blinked once and then laughed nervously.“…what?”Alpha Marcus stared at her like the world itself had tilted beneath his feet.Th
Mila’s POVThe meeting ended heavier than it began.No one said it aloud, but we were all thinking the same thing.Kreda and her own mark and her connection to the cloaked attackers and maybe Bastian.Everything was starting to connect in ways none of us fully understood yet.And somehow, right in







