Sold To Mate, Promised To The Throne

The Room Trembled

Flames continued to licked higher along the walls, climbing the ornate panels like living things. Smoke choked the air, thick and biting, curling into my lungs and making them burn with every inhale. The heat pressed against my skin like a living force, hot enough to blister, hot enough to make my blood run faster. The intruders didn’t move. They froze, rigid, as if sensing something shifting…something dangerous, something alive.

My pulse thundered so loud I thought it would burst through my ears. My chest hammered, my fists clenched involuntarily. Rage…at this point it wasn’t just anger anymore, It wasn’t fear or frustration or heartbreak, It was fire.

Pure, untamed, almost sentient, not like the ones burning the hall down.

It twisted and roared inside me, desperate to get out.

“You think you can scare me?”

I yelled, with a raw voice, trembling like a wire about to snap.

“You think you can take what’s mine?”

Kael and Cassian flinched slightly. Even they felt it. That raw power crawling under my skin, twisting the air, bending the energy in the hall. Something inside me was rising…bigger than me, stronger than anything I’d ever known. Something that didn’t just demand respect…it demanded obedience.

My hands shook, My vision blurred. The firelight danced across the walls, reflecting off shattered chandeliers, smoldering furniture, and fallen banners. And then… it happened.

White flame poured from my eyes.

It wasn’t literal fire, not really. It was light, pure and blinding. My hair turned stark white in an instant, glowing like moonlight trapped in flame. Silver sparkles danced across my skin, flickering like stars against the darkness. Energy rolled from me in waves, a living, breathing force that sent everyone in the hall staggering backward. Kael and Cassian struggled to stay upright, their bodies crackling with static, hair standing on end, their eyes wide with awe and fear.

I didn’t understand it, I Couldn’t control it either. But it felt… right. f****d up right. It felt Powerful, so terrifying and Unstoppable.

The first intruder hissed, claws scraping across the marble floor, eyes wide with something between fear and shock. The masked figure behind him gripped his weapon tighter, his muscles taut…but he faltered, stepping back as the energy slammed into him like an invisible wall.

“What the f**k…” Kael growled, moving toward me, his teeth gritted, but he hesitated at the raw, and unshaped power that was radiating from me.

“Get back!” I screamed.

My own voice sounded strange, it was echoing, carrying its own weight, carrying a fire that put off the fire in the hall. Even to my own ears, my voice didn’t sound human.

Cassian shouted something I couldn’t make out over the roar of energy thrumming through the hall. The energy bounced off the walls, shattering chandeliers, knocking banners from the ceilings off, sending splinters of wood and shards of glass flying like deadly confetti.

The masked figure lunched toward me the second time, raised his weapon at me, but he slammed into a wall of energy I didn’t even consciously create.

He stumbled so hard, the weapon in his hand clattering to the floor, and for the first time, I saw hesitation in his eyes.

My vision became blurred. My hands shook. The energy inside me pulsed, it was untamed, hungry, thrashing, clawing for release. It wasn’t just my wolf anymore..it was something else, something older, stronger, and primal. I could feel it vibrating through my bones, into my very blood. I wasn’t human anymore, I didn’t not fully feel like a human. Something inside me had awakened…something bigger than my body can handle, bigger than my mind can comprehend.

Kael’s voice cut through the chaos, sharp commanding, and protective.

“Focus, damn it!”

“Focus?! How the f**k do I focus?!”

I screamed, rage lacing every syllable, like I wasn’t suppose to utter those words. The sound of my voice made the walls tremble. My energy pulsed violently, knocking tables over, and hurling chairs across the room. Smoke burned my lungs, sparks rained down like hot needles. The intruders groaned as they slammed against walls, thrown by waves of raw power, unable to resist.

And then finally… my legs gave out.

I hit the floor hard, pain seared through my body, my chest collided with broken floorboards, my head spun, my vision blacked at the edges. But the energy… it didn’t stop, It didn’t care about my body. It radiated outward like wildfire, white, silver and, unstoppable.

I heard Kael curse, felt Cassian’s hand brush against mine as he tried to steady me. But I couldn’t open my eyes, couldn’t think straight, couldn’t breathe, I was gone, dissolved into the power that had overtaken me.

And somewhere in the hall, beyond the smoke and chaos… someone was smiling.

A shadow detached itself from the flames. The shadow was tall and Silent. Stayed Calm through the chaos, Watching and Waiting. Not the northern banners, not the man in the masked I recognized, not Kael, not Cassian, Someone else entirely.

Someone I had thought powerless… until now. Everyone else was affected by the energy coming out from me except him.

The room shifted, even the northern banners who had frozen before now seemed almost aware of the new presence, and tension crawling through their bodies. They all fled.

The firelight flickered unnaturally, stretching shadows across the walls, as if the mansion itself recognized the shift, recognizing something greater than the flames, greater than all of us.

The last thing I felt before everything went black was the pulse of my own power.

White flame burning hotter than fire.

Silver sparks covering my skin like armor.

Energy that was mine…and mine alone.

And then… nothing.

When I woke up, it wasn’t like I’d fallen asleep. It was like the world had been holding its breath, waiting for me to open my eyes and claim it. My body ached so bad, yes, my lungs burned, but the energy was still inside me, coiling, thrumming, whispering in a language I didn’t fully understand.

Kael’s hand was there first, gripping mine, warm and steady.

“You’re okay,” he muttered.

His voice shook, barely, just enough to betray his awe.

Cassian’s silver eyes were fixed on the shadow who was still there watching, calculating, calm, untouchable, like he had seen this coming.

Cassian couldn’t hide the tension in his shoulders, the way the hair on his arms bristled in response to the energy radiating off me and the shadow.

And then I realized… I had changed.

The fire wasn’t just around me anymore. The fire was me.

I was no longer the scared girl who had walked in to the hall with kael, no longer the prisoner. Something inside me had awakened…Something older than fear, stronger than rage, sharper than pain.

This wasn’t just a fight for survival anymore. This wasn’t even just a fight for the throne. This was a fight to show them all, to every intruder and territories, that the Queen had returned. The Alpha had risen.

And anyone who thought they could stop me…They were already dead.

But first, I need to understand what just happened to me. I know, the shadow man has all the answer.