Semua Bab Lyra, His Second Chance Mate: Bab 181 - Bab 190

Nyxar’s POV He didn’t need to be invited.Nyxar slipped through the castle’s underbelly like a whisper in a crypt, unseen and unbothered by the wards woven into the stone. Magic of this realm obeyed its makers. But Nyxar… he was from before such rules were written.The council chamber stood beyond the long corridor of mirrored columns and wolf-carved sconces, its entrance barred not by guards, but by layered enchantments meant to deter spying. Still, he found the gap in their defenses - there was always a seam. Always a weakness. He breathed into it, stepped into the walls themselves, and became shadow.He didn’t emerge into the room. Not yet.Instead, he listened.The voices inside were lower than the fire’s crackle, heavy with unease.“She’s changed,” came Lord Marius’s voice, sharp as brittle glass. “Did you see her eyes? Silver. That’s not our Queen - it’s something else.”“She walks like herself, speaks like herself… but she’s not the same,” said another. A younger councilman, L

The passage was colder than she expected.It breathed beneath the castle like a living thing - its walls carved not by human or lycan hands, but by something older. More deliberate. The torch Nyxar had summoned cast a flickering, golden light, licking over ancient stone and faded carvings that had long since lost their names. Runes etched into the walls pulsed faintly with residual magic, their glow responding to her presence.Lyra walked carefully beside Kane, her fingers brushing the damp, uneven walls now and then for balance. She could feel it - something changing beneath her skin. Her silver hair clung to her temples, damp from the cold air, and her silvery eyes adjusted to the dark better than they ever had before. But it wasn’t just her sight that had sharpened. It was her soul.The First Queen was gone now, merged with her - completely. She was no longer two. No longer guided by visions or memories or whispered dreams. It was both grounding and terrifying. She had become some

Lyra’s POVThe corridor was long behind them now, swallowed by the cold stone walls of the ancient passageway. After Nyxar's warnings and the unsettling energy that still buzzed beneath her skin, Lyra had returned to their quarters with Kane, her thoughts a storm of questions and instincts she could barely contain.Now, wrapped in the soft embrace of their bed, the room dimly lit by the moonlight filtering through gauzy curtains, she lay beside him, tangled in a quiet stillness.Kane’s arm draped around her waist, his thumb brushing lazy circles along her hipbone as if grounding her to the present. But Lyra’s mind wandered - back to the runes, the sealed door, and the low thrumming that echoed beneath the castle floors like a warning or a heartbeat."You're quiet," Kane murmured beside her. His voice was low, still slightly rough from sleep, but it held a softness only she ever heard. "Too quiet. That usually means you're thinking something dangerous."Lyra let out a breath. Not quite

Lyra’s POVThe air in the chamber was thick with something unseen, something pressing. Lyra exhaled slowly, trying to shake the restless energy curling through her veins. Across from her, Nyxar stilled, his dark eyes narrowing as if he, too, had felt it.It wasn’t just unease. It was something else - something shifting beneath the surface of reality.A slow, pulsing force.Ancient. Wrong.Lyra’s fingers twitched at her sides. She turned to Nyxar, meeting his gaze. “You feel it too.”Nyxar didn’t answer immediately. He tilted his head slightly, as if listening to something just beyond the reach of mortal hearing. Then, quietly, “Yes.”Her pulse quickened. “What is it?”For a moment, he didn’t respond. Then, with measured slowness, he turned toward the archway leading to the terrace. “Come.”Lyra followed, her steps brisk but silent as they moved through the halls. The further they walked, the heavier the air became, charged with something unnatural. It wasn’t just her imagination - eve

The grand hall of the council chamber was eerily quiet as Lyra and Kane stepped inside. The room, bathed in muted light from the high, arched windows, seemed to hold its breath. The members of the council - elders from every corner of the kingdom, each of them powerful, respected - sat at their long, polished table. Their eyes were trained on her, but it wasn’t just curiosity that lined their gazes. It was a heavy, suffocating mix of concern, fear, and suspicion.Lyra felt the weight of their stares, each one an invisible pressure on her chest. The air seemed thick with unsaid words, too many emotions coiling together in a silent storm. As she walked further into the room, her silver eyes flickered over the council members - each a pillar of power in their own right - and she couldn’t help but notice the way they recoiled from her presence, as though her very being unsettled them.The whispers were already starting.“I told you it would come to this,” Elder Varick muttered from the fa