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

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

your feet.” His voice boomed like glaciers colliding,

pressed my hands to my throbbing

to intrude, but I

surge of white musk hit

slammed the floor, shoulder blades groaning under

saw my broken nails

to all Alphas,” Erasmus said, his voice as unyielding as three years ago in Silvermoon Canyon. “I can’t take

suffocating aura,

pupils narrowed, aurora-like energy swirling in his eyes—the legendary “Sky’s Eye” that once

a fight. “I’m asking for

my lower lip,

You want to reject Ulrik?” Lycan Erasmus’s

to ask for your permission to form a mating bond. Today marks the anniversary of my father

awaits you outside Bloodmoon, Adelaide?” Erasmus’s voice held a

you know what you’ll face after

Erasmus became Lycan King, he’d visit Frostfang

trained with my father and brought me

I was sent to the elders, he

in Ulrik and Velda’s way.

Adelaide. Will you return to ruins? What’s next for

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