Chapter 40: Awakening of the True Alpha
Darkness.
Heavy. Crushing. Endless.
Luna drifted in the void, weightless and lost. There was no battlefield here. No blood, no pain, no Lucien. Only a vast emptiness that stretched out into forever.
But even in the darkness, she felt it—the bond.
The connection to the ancient creature she had touched.
It burned in her veins like molten fire, seeping into every fiber of her being, rewriting her from the inside out.
Fragments of memories not her own flashed through her mind—images of ancient wars, kingdoms of wolves ruled by primal Alphas, blood oaths sworn under dying suns. She saw the creature as it once was: a guardian, not a monster. A protector of the True Bloodline.
And she understood—
This beast wasn't her enemy.
It was her inheritance
