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.

the shattered moonstone

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

boomed like glaciers colliding, sending dust cascading from

pressed my hands to my throbbing

I’m sorry to intrude,

creaked. A surge

the floor, shoulder blades

vision, I saw my broken nails

his voice as

suffocating aura,

energy swirling in his eyes—the legendary “Sky’s Eye” that once tore apart the

to rescind your decree,” I said, every word a fight. “I’m asking for a

split canines bit through my lower lip,

reject Ulrik?” Lycan Erasmus’s tone was

to form a mating bond. Today marks the anniversary of my father and brothers’ death. I want to use their

you outside Bloodmoon, Adelaide?”

know what you’ll face

Erasmus became Lycan King, he’d

father and brought

when I was sent to the elders, he

Ulrik and Velda’s way. If their love’s true, it’s the Moon Goddess’s will.

you return to ruins? What’s next for

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