VIVIAN’S POV
The scrying crystal shattered in my hands.
“NO!” I shrieked, hurling the pieces across my ritual room. They embedded in the walls, glittering like deadly diamonds.
The shadow wolves—six of my most powerful creations—destroyed. Not just defeated. Obliterated. Burned away by pure white light so intense it had burned through my magical connection to them.
Royal Wolf light.
The girl had accessed her power. Even with the curse still active, even this early in her awakening, Aria Winters had tapped into the Royal bloodline’s strength.
“Impossible!” I screamed at the empty room. “The curse should have held for months! Years!”
But it hadn’t. The Lycan’s mate bond was too strong, too pure. It was breaking down my carefully constructed curse faster than I’d anticipated.
I’d unde
