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.

shattered moonstone patterns on the

boots crushed wolf-shaped reliefs beneath him, grinding

boomed like glaciers colliding,

my hands to my throbbing neck

Erasmus, I’m sorry to intrude, but I

creaked. A surge of white musk hit

the floor, shoulder blades

saw my broken nails digging into my

as unyielding as three

suffocating aura,

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

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

bit through my lower lip,

to reject Ulrik?” Lycan Erasmus’s tone

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

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

what you’ll face after

Erasmus became Lycan King, he’d

trained with my father and brought me

was sent to the elders, he

won’t stand in Ulrik and Velda’s way. If their love’s true, it’s the

you return to

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