LOGINElaine“Arsel? Elaine? What’s going on? Did something happen to the twins?” Selene asked, jumping to her feet at once, maternal panic flashing in her eyes.“The twins are stable, Mom,” Arsel said, reassuring her and closing the heavy door behind us to ensure the room’s complete privacy. “It’s Elaine. She’s had a vision.”Izan frowned, straightening his imposing posture.“A vision? I thought Claris had checked on Elaine; she’s human. Humans don’t have magic cores to receive visions, unless a sorcerer is mentally attacking them,” said my father-in-law, stepping closer to us with a protective instinct.“It wasn’t an attack, Izan,” I said, finding my own voice. I stood firm beside Arsel, feeling the weight of the Goddess’s words still burning in my mind. “It was the Moon Goddess. I’ve
ElaineExhaustion dragged me into the darkness with the force of a relentless tide.After the roller coaster of terror, miracles, and revelations in Eclipse’s medical room, my body simply stopped functioning. Arsel had carried me in his arms to one of the private rooms in the family home, refusing to let go of me even as he laid me down on the immense mattress covered in soft furs.I curled up against his chest, breathing in his scent of the forest, damp earth, and that hint of fresh rain that always managed to calm my inner demons, and I closed my eyes.But true rest did not come.Instead, my mind was cast into a gray abyss, a space where time and gravity seemed not to exist.It wasn’t the first time I’d been here.The landscape materialized around me with a clarity that made my blood run cold. I was standing barefoot on a floor covered in moss that emitted
ArselJarek stepped forward and spread a digital scroll across the table, overlaying new data onto our territorial map. Immediately, several points began to flash bright yellow, but they weren’t within the Eclipse Pack’s territory. They were located in neighboring packs: the Silver Fang Pack to the north and the Shadowy Valleys Pack to the east.“Alpha Izan, Alpha Arsel… the news we’re receiving from external networks is alarming,” Jarek began, swallowing hard. “We’re not the only ones being targeted. Over the past forty-eight hours, our informants within the northern and eastern packs have detected serious anomalies along their perimeters.”“Did they carry out attacks similar to those on Crescent and Eclipse?” I asked, my eyes narrowing.“No, sir. And that’s what makes it more dangerous,” Vanya, the tracker wolf, interjected
ArselThe word hung in the air of the waiting room, floating like a curse or a distorted blessing that none of us knew how to process.The silence that followed was so thick I could hear the crackling of the blue-flame torches on the hospital walls.“Oracle?” asked my father, Izan, his voice resonating with a gravity that made the hospital walls vibrate.I stood motionless, staring at the little silver-haired fairy lying on Isaac’s chest. Bless looked at her with a mixture of reverence and utter bewilderment. The leader of the fairies, a man with sharp features and eyes that concealed centuries of secrets, stepped forward, clenching his fists with obvious tension.The impact of the revelation struck us all in the chest.The fairies in the entourage began to murmur in their lilting language, a sound filled with contained panic. The wolves of Eclipse’s guard growled instinctively, sensing the surge of mystical energy that began to emanate from the room.This is crazy, I thought, and Leo
ElaineI woke up with a strange sensation in my body; something was pulling me hard, so I got up carefully and shook my head. Arsel wasn’t beside me, so I figured he was still with his sisters, and I smiled.So I decided to head to the kitchen, walking calmly toward the stairs, when a conversation disrupted the peace and the bed shattered into a thousand pieces, but it was Arsel’s scream that pierced the entire house like a bolt of lightning.I’d left the room thinking I’d go downstairs to get a cup of tea when I heard the chaos erupt on the ground floor.Something inside me screamed so loudly that I couldn’t hold back, and then I realized that what had woken me up was, in fact, the bond between us, perhaps Leo pulling at me.I didn’t think twice; I ran down the stairs.My heart raced when I found the whole family gathered around a figure slumped on the floor.Selene.My heart stopped for a moment when I realized her body lay motionless in her husband’s arms. Izan was completely devas
ArselWhen dinner was over, the family scattered throughout the house.Elaine excused herself to go up to her room for a moment, claiming she was tired, though I knew, through our bond, that she also needed a moment alone to process the day.I waited half an hour before going up after her.I found her by the window, with moonlight streaming in in silvery streaks across the floor, gazing out at the dark forest with her arms crossed over her chest.I didn’t interrupt her right away.I leaned against the doorframe and watched her for a moment, the way she stood so straight even when something weighed on her inside, that stillness I’d learned to read as one of her ways of processing the world.“I know you’re there,” she said without turning around, a barely perceptible smile in her voice.“The bond?” I asked, stepping closer.
Elaine“When did he find out?” I asked as I stepped on the gas pedal out of fear.I couldn't help the feeling of unease and revulsion I felt at that moment, but I had to get as far away from my tormentor as I could.“About an hour ago,” Kris said seriously. “Your mother called the orphanage asking
ElaineAmelie arrived in ten minutes.She looked first at me, then at Arsel, and without saying a word, she sat down across the table and waited.I told her everything from the beginning.The two memories. When I finished, Amelie didn’t respond right away.She stared at the stone surface of the ta
ElaineAt that moment, fear consumed me.I had no idea how Maxon could have found the ticket because he never touched dirty laundry due to his OCD about cleanliness. So seeing him standing in front of me, ticket in hand, dashed every last bit of hope I had.“What the hell is this, Elaine?” Maxon as
ElaineI looked at the bruise covering my cheek.It was the latest addition to an endless list of bruises that marked my skin, and I wondered when my life had turned into a living hell.A year ago, everything was normal, but one night, when my father's decisions took a new turn, reality changed abr







