Chapter 5

Adelaide’s POV

Beata didn’t argue further, sensing my resolve.

I wasn’t mad. Beata, an Omega raised in Frostfang, still had that innocence—they didn’t bully Omegas there.

But I, as Alpha-born, had to stand my ground.

Outside the palace, time stretched endlessly.

Finally, the doors opened. Fabian, Lycan Erasmus’s Beta, emerged.

“Adelaide, Lycan Erasmus will see you now.”

Relief washed over me. I nodded gratefully and followed him in.

The obsidian tiles carried hints of dragon’s breath pheromones—every step felt like walking on ice.

I stared at the patterns under Fabian’s crimson cape, blood rising in my throat as my wolf clawed at my consciousness, straining against the invisible aura from the throne.

The cedar scent that once clung to my father’s armor now froze my nape with glacial cold.

I knelt before Lycan Erasmus, head bowed.

on the shattered moonstone

Erasmus’s snow-leopard boots crushed wolf-shaped reliefs beneath him, grinding my shadow’s

His voice boomed like glaciers

to my throbbing neck veins, bowed

intrude,

creaked. A surge of

shoulder blades groaning

blurred vision, I saw my broken nails

my orders to all Alphas,” Erasmus said, his voice as unyielding as three years

against the suffocating aura, I

in his eyes—the legendary “Sky’s Eye” that once

not asking you to rescind your decree,” I said, every word a fight. “I’m asking for a new one—permission to rejct

split canines bit through my lower lip, blood filling

want to reject Ulrik?” Lycan Erasmus’s tone was

Alpha Ulrik and Velda used their battle merits to ask for your permission to form a mating bond. Today marks the anniversary of my father and brothers’

you know what awaits you outside Bloodmoon, Adelaide?” Erasmus’s voice

what you’ll

Erasmus became Lycan King, he’d visit

with my father

to the elders, he faded from my

stand in Ulrik and Velda’s way. If

you return to ruins? What’s

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