Chapter 11

The silence in the bedroom was so absolute I could hear the hum of the city traffic ten stories below.

Kaelen stepped between me and the door, his massive frame blocking the only exit. His face was an unreadable mask of stone, but his Alpha aura rolled off him in suffocating waves, tes

Chapter 12

The shift back to human form was as effortless as taking a breath—a stark, euphoric contrast to the agonizing transformation I had just endured.

As I stood naked in the center of the room, my skin flushed and my muscles humming with a violent, electric energy, Kaelen didn't turn away.

Chapter 13

The morning of the Ascension Ceremony broke with a dreary, overcast sky, the gray clouds mirroring the grim reality of the Obsidian Syndicate’s Citadel. But inside the heavily fortified compound of the Bloodiron estate, the atmosphere was crackling with a terrifying, electric anticipatio