[Xanthea] My eyes fell towards the breakfast table where Asher, Raven, and Ezra sat together. Ezra almost spilled the coffee while placing it on the table, but Raven saved it with a deft swoop of his one hand, balancing the mugs on the tray. “Woah, Raven. Have I ever told you that you should join
I walked to the table. I didn’t know if Raven and Ezra would drink the tea, but for some unknown reason, I thought it would be intelligent to brew them a cup of tea as well. *** “About what you sent last night. Why are you doing it?” Raven asked. “Why? Do you have a problem with it?” Ezra asked R
[Xanthea] A very old memory flashed in my mind at Ezra’s question. I was five-year-old back then and had a caretaker who looked after me. And by looking after, I mean it was her duty to make sure I never crossed paths with luna Meesa and her family. Once, she failed to do her duty, and I began po
Ezra took in a rough inhale, clenching and unclenching his jaws, looking outside the glass walls at the sea of skyscrapers. All of us sat in silence for a while before Asher began serving me breakfast. “Alpha, let me serve. You don’t have to. I can—” I said, getting up from the chair slightly, alm
“Xanthea…” A faint voice echoed through me. “It’s ok, angel. Everything you feel is valid, and it’s not your fault in any way. It’s ok.” Ezra stroked my back, hugging me tightly against himself. I felt a jolt behind my guts as I crashed back into reality. Parting from me, Ezra cupped my face in hi
[Ezra] As I entered the dining room again, the first thing I noticed were the two flower pots placed in the middle of the table. I squinted my eyes. Aren’t they the same flowers Xanthea had in her garden? I looked at Raven. He cocked a brow, gesturing towards Asher who was in the kitchen prepar
“Me too, Ezra. I am serious so that you don’t have to be. And everything I have done so far and am still doing is for us. To end what our father started, to fix what he ruined—” “Alright!” I snapped, clenching my fists. Asher let out a sigh. “And you still ask why I don’t talk? Because you are no
“No,” he said with finality in his tone. “You don’t have time to waste on that cat.” “A cat?” Asher chimed in. “Not now, Asher. We’re talking about a werecat who cannot control her healing powers,” Raven stopped Asher before he could obsess over cats again. “But she controlled her powers. You saw
So… the celestials know about the curse and the throne madness.The throne madness, huh?Right. That was the very reason the curse was created in the first place.I looked at Asher and all the instances of Alpha Deimos, the demon lords’ father, suffering from the madness flashed before my eyes.Moth
The prince took a quick gulp before reading the letter addressed to my grandfather.“~Father. A lot happened after I fell from grace. I’ve missed you, mother and my siblings dearly over all these years. I want to tell you so many things, but perhaps it’s better if I don’t. Yet, there’s a part of my
Nikolai read the letter further where mother revealed her real identity to Alpha Valdimir and she assured him that the celestials would help him protect his pack.She specifically asked him to burn down her books and diaries before interacting with the celestials. Doing so would break the seal on th
[Xanthea]“These letters are enchanted and only the ones they are addressed to can unseal or open them,” the prince said.He paused.“They’ve been kept in Alpha Valdimir’s care since your mother’s death. All of them have been opened by their addressees… except yours.”“Alpha Valdimir gave me everyth
But Asher—Every inch of him was covered in them. Dense. Spreading. There wasn’t an inch of his body that hadn’t been wounded critically.How is this even possible?What the hell has he been through to end up like this?No… who did this to him?For a second, I thought it was the holy rain. Or maybe
“What’s there to understand about a grown-ass man who can’t even control his emotions? He looks like he’s a high rank celestial. Still, he lacks basic manners, etiquettes, even the rationality to fathom the consequences of his actions? He attacked the Alpha of the Infernal Pack. Do you think the Pri
[Xanthea]A sharp pulse of pain zapped through my head, every nerve and blood vessel screaming in agony. My muscles spasmed, my bones felt as if they were melting as the life force was yanked from my body and poured into my tongue — fueling the spell with raw energy.My vision blurred for a moment,
Mother had performed the spells and drawn the magic circles and symbols so many times that they became an instinct ingrained in her. And that instinct was passed down to me.I bit the tip of my finger. Ignoring Asher’s protests, I drew the recovery symbol, a symbol that accelerated healing, on his c
But I stayed calm, drawing in a deep breath while all my mother’s knowledge, experience and abilities manifested in their full force within me.I had naturally inherited 5% of my mother’s basic healer skills, which included things like instant diagnostic sight, blood analysis and manipulation, mana