LOGINI woke up slowly, without the usual jolt of terror that used to accompany my mornings. This time, the warm, comforting weight of Arsel’s arm around my waist acted as an infallible anchor.
When I tried to move gently so as not to wake him, Arsel’s arm tensed instinctively, holding me against him with a blind, lazy possessiveness.
“Don’t go yet,” he murmured in a hoarse voice, thick with sleep,
ArselMy parents’ study fell silent after Elaine finished speaking.My mother was staring at Elaine; my father didn’t move; and I could hear my mate’s breathing as if it were the only sound in the entire house.Elaine had spoken a truth so calmly and powerfully that my wolf, who had been walking on the edge of his own fury for days, froze inside me.The Goddess has chosen her, Leo said furiously.I didn’t want to answer him because that was precisely what terrified me.The Goddess had spoken to Elaine and called her a bridge.She had shown her a war where the hunters were no longer just frustrated humans with rifles, technology, and stolen symbols.And now my mate, my human, my miracle with trembling hands and a heart of steel, was at the center of the chessboard.My mother was the first to move.She approached Elaine with slow steps and cupped her face in her hands. She didn’t examine her as a healer but as a mother. There were tears in her eyes, but they weren’t tears of fear.“My c
Elaine“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
ElaineThat morning, the sun filtered through the linen curtains in a soft, golden glow, reminding me that time was still moving forward, even though my memory had come to a sudden halt.And that was something that paralyzed me.I sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing my temples. The headache was no
ElaineA pleasant warmth washed over my entire body.Then I awoke enveloped in a violet mist that smelled of vanilla—an unusual combination, but one that my amnesiac mind was already beginning to associate with salvation.Then the memories came flooding back to me.The effect of the fairy nectar st
ArselI saw Elina lift her face toward me, her eyes sparkling in the golden light of the sunset filtering through the immense willow trees in the clearing. She was so beautiful, so ethereal and vulnerable, that my heart skipped a beat.When she stood slightly on tiptoe, closing the small distance b
ElaineThe morning dawned shrouded in a silvery mist that tangled among the tops of the immense, centuries-old pine trees, giving the mansion a dreamlike, almost melancholic air, and I wondered if that had to do with my mood or with the fact that there was something else going on.I sighed and took







