VALERIAI close the bathroom door and hear Aldric sighing in frustration outside.Eventually, he leaves and lets me be alone.He entered the room on the second floor, climbing through the window from the forest in his lycan form.I hear him searching for clothes and changing.The door to the room opens and closes.He's going to settle matters with the Alpha's family, who will no longer be the Alpha of this pack.I begin removing my wet clothes, processing everything that happened.I swallow the knot in my throat at the thought of Edward and close my eyes in pain, holding his memory deep in my chest.My hands reach into the inner pocket of my dress, and this is the main reason I pushed Aldric away.I felt the power of the relic the moment I opened my eyes again and hid it from him. I didn't remember things clearly enough to explain if he asked.My mind is full of blanks, just like every time I woke up from those strange episodes, but now there was a witness—Celine.Fear gripped me. Fea

VALERIA“Really?! How lucky!” Dave grabbed her shoulders, leaning in cheerfully.“Do it for me. I love personalized things! No, wait, even better—you’ll be my maid from now on!”“What?” Juliette raised her eyes for a second to look at him, and I saw something in her expression I had never noticed before.She always teased the other lycans, but now that I thought about it, she had never said anything about Dave.So this was her weakness, I thought maliciously, already plotting how to pay her back for all her teasing.“I’ll be waiting for you in my room then, maid… What’s your name?”“Ju… Juliette, sir…”“Good, July. You’re mine from today,” he nodded, deciding for himself—typical lycan behavior.“But I…”“Hey, Valeria! We’re going on a run through the woods this afternoon. Meet us by the lake, we’re one person short. I think His Majesty will be there too—you have to be on my team!”He added before dashing down the hallway like the hurricane of energy he always was.“So… Guardian Dave,

VALERIA“It’s at these coordinates…” she told me the location, which seemed to be an old structure in the middle of nowhere.“No matter how much we’re forced to veer off, just run there! We’ll cover you!”So, almost blindly, we charged deeper into what looked like a creepy, ancient cemetery.The massive she-wolf Alpha beside me suddenly shoved me with her snout, catching me off guard and making me roll over the grass.I never let go of the flag and quickly got back on my feet, just in time to see her growling threateningly at another smaller she-wolf—still stronger than my petite Omega.I felt a presence lurking in the dark mist and jumped to Celine’s side just in time, nearly caught by Dave, who had been hiding behind a crypt behind me.“Valeria, I’ll hold them off! Run!” she ordered, and I did, but it wasn’t going to be that easy this time.“You really think we’ll let you get away?!” Dave growled and shifted into his human form, lunging at Celine.Despite his playful nature and some

VALERIAI was processing his words when he gave me a warm kiss on my snout.“Come on, the others are already on their way. I’ll hand the victory flag to Quinn so he can console himself with it—maybe even pathetically jerk off to it while I fuck his captain,” he added under his breath, and I rolled my eyes.What a brute and jealous man.“By the way, babe, we love your little wolf. Next time, I’ll shift into Azarot, and we’ll go on a private hunt, my beautiful little Omega.”He stroked my body as he spoke in a low voice, and I leaned against his chest, feeling happy about winning and being pampered.I thought everything would keep going according to my plan, but that wasn’t the case.That petty King had decided to take revenge later.*****We returned to the castle with Dave throwing a tantrum over losing, and me still in Aldric’s arms, as he refused to release my wolf form.But I finally broke free of his grasp and escaped to my room to take a “thorough” bath and put on a simple dress.

VALERIA«Eneara, I have never regretted a decision so deeply. My whims brought terrible consequences to the world and to your fragile body.Your desire to be a mother—I will fulfill it. I will create three special treasures for you. Thank you for showing me freedom through your eyes.»“This is part of the passage you deciphered at the Altar,” Quinn says as the three of us sit inside the castle library.“I know, but I still didn’t understand a thing,” I admit, seated across from them with a long table between us.“As I understand it, it speaks of the emergence of the first supernatural creatures. According to the legends, Eneara was the vessel for the Moon Goddess when she came to explore the mortal realm,” Celine explains, and Quinn nods.They seem like two brainiacs, bookworms, real overachievers—and that’s a good thing.“However, this much is clear. According to the legend, Eneara, with the remaining power of the Goddess flowing through her veins, gave birth to the first Lycan, Witc