For ten years, Gwen Harlow suppressed her forbidden Witch-Wolf magic to be the perfect Luna for Lucien Blackfang. Her reward? A silver dagger to the heart, twisted by the very man she lived for—all to make room for her treacherous sister, Sienna.

But death was not the end.

Granted a second chance by the Moon Goddess, Gwen wakes up ten years in the past, on the day of her joining ceremony. This time, she won't kneel to the man who killed her. Instead, she walks past a stunned Lucien and chooses Kaelen, the ‘Cursed Alpha’ feared by the entire world.

Lucien thought he was discarding a burden, never realizing that Gwen’s secret magic was the only thing keeping him alive. Now, as Lucien begins to rot without his silent protector, Gwen rises as a sovereign of shadows, ready to burn his empire to the ground.

"Once, I died for you. Now, I live for your ruin."

The air within the inner sanctum of the Blackfang Fortress was thin, stripped of its mountain freshness and replaced by the dry, synthetic warmth of the northern stabilization wards. Outside, the world was screaming. The living tide of stone continued its silent, mass-heavy assault against the lower ramparts, their marble limbs grinding against the granite foundations of the keep with a sound that vibrated through the very bedrock. But inside the high tower's apothecary wing, the chaos of the siege felt distant, muffled by three feet of solid iron-veined stone and the heavy, protective silence of the sovereign guard.


Chapter 138 - THE SECOND SEED