Fell for the Alpha-less Queen

Chapter 544 Severed for Good

When Tessa drove out of the city, she finally allowed herself a deep breath. She quietly disabled the location-sharing function on her phone, then opened her private navigation app and switched the destination to the secret villa.

Thirty minutes later, the black sedan pulled into a concealed forest path. The villa lay hidden among the trees, with only a faint light glowing from a second-floor window-the nightlight she'd left on in advance, to illuminate the layout of the array.

As soon as she opened the villa's front door, a rush of air hit her-thick with the scent of cold iron and ancient wolf sigils. In the center of the living room, the Sealing Array shimmered silver under the moonlight, exactly as described in the Wolf Codex, a nine-grid formation inlaid with crushed wolf bone powder. At its core sat a shallow indentation-just large enough for the Moonstone.

"Are you ready?" Emma's voice echoed in her mind, carrying a thread of tension.

Tessa nodded and locked the door behind her. She stepped into the center of the array and sat down. From her document folder, she took out the Moonstone, its surface glowing ice-blue in the moonlight, weaving into the silver lines of the array like a living web...

"It's going to hurt," Emma warned, her voice low and steady. "The lunar incantation will fight back. The silver ring will start burning, and then-'

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the silver ring. She'd worn

the Moonstone into the core of the array and bit her fingertip, letting her blood drip

into blinding blue light. Energy surged along the array lines, filling the room and locking into place inside the Sealing Array. Tessa's ring finger seared with white-hot pain, like a branding iron pressed into her bone. The silver ring pulsed with black light, clashing violently against the Moonstone's glow-the lunar energy trying to purify the curse,

like it was melting into her bone. The lunar incantation etched inside

through your blood- use it to drown

nerve. Wherever it touched, the black glow of the curse dimmed- but with every inch it faded, the backlash worsened. She could hear faint cracking sounds inside the ring- that

know how long

light settled, the silver ring that had bound her for five years gave a sharp snap and split clean in two-then clinked to the

indentation remained,

array, drenched in cold sweat, her fingers still trembling. But when the looked down at the shattered ring on the floor, a laugh escaped her-shaky and breathless,

over. The chain Nathan had forced on her was

exact moment, far away in Yalvaria, deep in the Frost Pack

the blood-bond silver ring on his left ring finger slipped