For ten years, Gwen Harlow suppressed her forbidden Witch-Wolf magic to be the perfect Luna for Lucien Blackfang. Her reward? A silver dagger to the heart, twisted by the very man she lived for—all to make room for her treacherous sister, Sienna.

But death was not the end.

Granted a second chance by the Moon Goddess, Gwen wakes up ten years in the past, on the day of her joining ceremony. This time, she won't kneel to the man who killed her. Instead, she walks past a stunned Lucien and chooses Kaelen, the ‘Cursed Alpha’ feared by the entire world.

Lucien thought he was discarding a burden, never realizing that Gwen’s secret magic was the only thing keeping him alive. Now, as Lucien begins to rot without his silent protector, Gwen rises as a sovereign of shadows, ready to burn his empire to the ground.

"Once, I died for you. Now, I live for your ruin."

The rhythmic, hydraulic hiss of silver gears expanding within porcelain sockets was the only sound that broke the absolute zero of the inner sanctum. The cold radiating from the mechanical monstrosity did not merely drop the temperature of the room; it froze the ambient humidity into jagged, floating needles of frost that hung suspended in the green bioluminescent gloom. It was an oppressive, suffocating atmosphere, a localized winter engineered by a mind that had spent three centuries rotting in the empty expanses of the Void.


Chapter 124 - THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIVAL