Chapter 69 – The Awakening Within The snow fell in sheets across the Northern Pass as Seraphina and her Alphas approached the mouth of the Icelorn Mountains. Everything felt… wrong. The air was too still, the snow too silent, and the wolves they’d brought refused to cross the frozen threshold. Lucien’s eyes flickered gold as he surveyed the path. “We’re being watched.” “By something old,” Draven murmured. Kael lifted his hand to the stone, pressing his palm against the frozen wall. “Magic… pure ice magic. Ancient.” Seraphina closed her eyes. And when she opened them, it wasn’t her voice that spoke. > “You return to me with mortal skin and divided soul.” The men turned sharply. Seraphina’s pupils had dilated into glowing, twin-colored flames—one gold, one sapphire. She stumbled

