**SYZAR’S POV.**
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The day my life changed was a blur—a bloody siege my family never expected would befall our powerful pack. It was a quick disaster, an explosion rocking the entire castle as my father and I fought to defend it.
Yet just in time, he pushed my best friends—the beta twins—and me into a connecting labyrinth to hide safely, moments before a soldier raced to my father.
“My king, I am sorry, but the princess and queen have been captured!” she reported.
“Holy gods. Stay here, son,” my father instructed me, but I didn’t back down.
“No, Father, I’m coming with you. You’re sick and weak—that’s why these cowards struck now,” I argued, but his hands fell heavily on my shoulders.
“No, son. Stay with the twins. Cassian is already wounded. You three are the future of this
