Chapter 172 Chapter Insight: What This Scene Reveals About the Story This chapter uncovers emotional layers that quietly guide the story’s direction, revealing motivations beneath the surface. Their choices are shaped by deeper conflicts they struggle to express. Tension builds subtly, hinting at consequences that will echo beyond this scene.

Chapter 171 Chapter Insight: What This Scene Reveals About the Story This chapter uncovers emotional layers that quietly guide the story’s direction, revealing motivations beneath the surface. Their choices are shaped by deeper conflicts they struggle to express. Tension builds subtly, hinting at consequences that will echo beyond this scene.

Chapter 170 Chapter Insight: What This Scene Reveals About the Story This chapter uncovers emotional layers that quietly guide the story’s direction, revealing motivations beneath the surface. Their choices are shaped by deeper conflicts they struggle to express. Tension builds subtly, hinting at consequences that will echo beyond this scene.

Chapter 169 Chapter Insight: What This Scene Reveals About the Story This chapter uncovers emotional layers that quietly guide the story’s direction, revealing motivations beneath the surface. Their choices are shaped by deeper conflicts they struggle to express. Tension builds subtly, hinting at consequences that will echo beyond this scene.

Chapter 168 Chapter 168 ATASHA’S POV “She’s alive,” Grace said the moment Cassian gave her a nod to speak. Her voice was steady, but her eyes flicked briefly toward me before she went on. “She’s been bound, Your Highness. We’re waiting for her to wake up p> I sat on

Chapter 167 Chapter 167 ATASHA’S POV Violet lunged again, fast enough that I barely had time to breathe. I met her halfway this time, pushing off the wall and catching her by the wrist. Her strength hit me like a wave, she was small, but what was inside her wasn’t.

Chapter 166 Chapter 166 ATASHA’S POV “Who are you?” I asked. She didn’t answer. Violet’s smile stretched in a way that didn’t belong to a girl who thanked me five minutes ago. It was too wide, too calm. Her eyes didn’t blink. Almost immediately, a thin tremor ran up my

Chapter 165 Chapter 165 ATASHA’S POV When the servant said Sister Veris was here to see me, she never mentioned anything about Violet, her niece. “Please forgive us for coming without notice,” Sister Veris said as she entered the study. “But Violet and I wanted to thank you personally for

Chapter 164 Chapter 164 ATASHA’S POV “My lady, it was just as you expected. Lady Kenneth’s maid sent a letter as soon as they reached the guest house,” Grace reported. I pressed a clump of damp soil around the base of a thin, blue-veined stalk, the dirt cool and grainy

Chapter 163 LADY KENNETH’S POV Lady Kenneth shut the door behind her and stood for a moment in the quiet of her guest room, hands still in her gloves as if she had forgotten to remove them. The walk back from the infirmary had not cleared her head. If anything,

Chapter 162 ATASHA’S POV When I was younger, my father used to say that everyone in the capital was cunning, that they were wolves who could eat you alive with their words. I never believed him. I used to think words couldn’t cut that deep. But after only a few

Chapter 161 Chapter 161 When I woke, the first thing I felt was soreness. A deep ache that sat low in my body and flared when I moved. For a moment, I lay still, staring at the ceiling, trying to understand it. I shouldn’t feel this way. My body heals

Chapter 160 ATASHA’S POV Wait until we get home. Those words kept echoing in my head, looping over and over until they made it hard to think. I was standing in the study now, facing Cassian. The trip back had been silent, every step of that horse burned into my

Chapter 159 Chapter 159 ATASHA’S POV “Alright,” I uttered as Cassian’s hand closed around my forearm and pulled me up in one smooth motion. I swung my leg over and settled in front of him, feeling the weight of his presence immediately. The saddle was warm, the leather stiff beneath

Chapter 158 Chapter 158 ATASHA’S POV “Dead,” a heard someone said near me. I ignored it and continued watching. They worked in silence at first, or maybe it only seemed that way. The world felt muffled, yet I could still hear everything, the scrape of boots on gravel, the drag

Chapter 157 Chapter 157 ATASHA’S POV “Your Highness!” I was certain that those words were coming from Grace. Yet, I didn’t turn. Blood was everywhere. On the ground. On my hands and even on my face. It clung to my skin like it belonged there. I stared at it, breathing

Chapter 156 Chapter 156 ATASHA’S POV “Your Highness… I really don’t think this is a good idea,” Grace said, settling beside me on the carriage bench. Her hands were tight around the strap above the window, knuckles pale. “I know,” I answered, watching the road sway under the lantern. “You’re

Chapter 155 Chapter 155 ATASHA’S POV “Sadly, there is no way to go around it.” Agape’s words struck me like a bell inside my skull, deep, echoing, and impossible to silence. I swallowed hard, the sound too loud in the stillness. The tea on the table had gone cold, untouched,

Chapter 154 Chapter 154 ATASHA’S POV “We need to talk,” I said as soon as the door opened. Prince Kaelith filled the frame first, but my gaze went past him to the older man behind him. Elder Agape stood there with the kind of calm that made you feel like

Chapter 153 Chapter 153 ATASHA’S POV Lady Kenneth’s smile didn’t soften. “I’ve heard the rumors about Lady Celeste’s sister,” she said pleasantly. “That she never awakened her wolf. Then I heard she married the Northern Lord, and now there is to be a public testing.” Her head tilted, like she