20 YEARS LATER…

NARRATOR

"SIGRID!!"

Zarek’s thunderous voice echoed through the dark castle.

Celine, seated in the library, looked up with a smirk before returning to her book.

Who knew what trouble that girl had gotten herself into this time with her mate’s belongings?

Sure enough, the Dark Prince was fuming as he stormed into his secret library—where he kept every kind of dark and forbidden sorcery book.

They were called forbidden for a reason—the spells inside were dangerous, ominous, and came at a steep cost. That was why he kept them hidden from certain unscrupulous little hands—and that hyperactive brain.

"This time, I won’t let it slide. Sigrid, get the fuck out here—NOW!"

Zarek left the underground chamber, his mind scanning the entire palace. But, as always, that menace of a Selenia was—without a doubt—his archnemesis. The bane of his power. The only one capable of hiding even within his own domain.

"ROUSSE, GET OVER HERE!" he commanded, summoning his commander—one of his mos