ALDRIC

"I will go to battle with my mother. We will support Sigrid. You know I can’t just stay here doing nothing," I hear Valeria’s voice in the darkness as she rests against my chest.

"Aldric, if that evil can’t be contained, there will be no safe place left in this world."

We’re both ready to sleep, but neither of us can.

Quinn has gone to the lycan lands to oversee their territory.

No one knows when this bomb will explode.

More and more specters keep escaping. We have to fight them every time they appear. And each time, they are stronger.

Sigrid told us that the specters left on this earth were nothing compared to the ones still imprisoned.

Thinking about a swarm of those things—massive ones, according to her—would make anyone’s balls tighten.

"Alright. Even if I locked you up in the dungeon, I know you’d find a way to escape," I sigh, pulling her tighter against my chest.

"I just have to protect you with everything I have."

«I just have to protect them—my woman and my pups. I can