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."

Gwen did not use a mechanical platform, a localized antigravity harness, or a armored wyvern drake from the western aviaries. To rely on the artificial constructs of man or the fragile wings of beasts would be to insult the absolute sovereignty of the bloodlines running through her veins. Standing at the absolute edge of the highest tier, she closed her amber eyes, ignored the frantic alarm sirens echoing from the lower strategy vaults, and reached inward. Deep within the core of her biology, past the aching strain of her heavy womb and into the cellular foundation of her bones, she drew the entirety of her ancestral southern imperial grace.


Chapter 161 - THE SECOND SUN