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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worse than what I felt when I was forced into that bond." Tessa cut her off, her fingers brushing the silver ring. She'd worn it for five years. It felt like it had grown into her bone. The words forever yours etched inside were already branded into

and bit

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

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

flow through your

touched, the black glow of the curse dimmed- but with every inch it faded, the backlash worsened. She could hear faint cracking

didn't know how long it

the Moonstone's glow finally began to fade and the array's silver light settled, the silver ring that had

pale indentation remained, as

the center of the array, drenched in cold sweat, her fingers still trembling. But when the looked down at the

over. The chain Nathan had forced on her was finally

deep in the Frost Pack territory, Nathan stood

blood-bond silver ring on his left ring finger slipped off and clattered against the