(Reina’s POV)
The night air was thick with tension as Kyle and I emerged from the Forbidden Archives, our steps quick and deliberate. The palace corridors were eerily silent too silent. The crashing sound we heard above had vanished, but the air carried an unnatural chill.
Kyle’s golden eyes flickered with intensity, his Alpha instincts sharp. “Something is here.”
I nodded, my breath steady but my magic on high alert. The power of the Moon Goddess coursed through me, reacting to the unseen force that had invaded our kingdom.
Then
A low snarl echoed through the hallway.
Kyle pushed me behind him instinctively, his muscles coiled for a fight.
And then I saw it.
A creature unlike anything I had ever encountered stood in the dim torchlight. Its body was massive, cloaked in shifting sha
