Callie’s POV
The corridor reacted the moment it finished revealing the final inscription.
It was not an immediate explosion or a violent collapse of stone and fire, but something far worse: a gradual awakening, deep and ancient, as though the entire place had remained asleep for centuries waiting for that exact moment. The black walls began vibrating with slow pulses traveling through the silver symbols carved into the rock, while the blue fire slowly intensified until the entire corridor was drenched in spectral light that distorted the shadows across our bodies.
And everything…
everything seemed to answer to me.
Not the Alpha.
Not the territory.
Not even the twins.
Me.
I felt the shift inside my body immediately, ancient pressure moving beneath my skin while the voices reacted a
