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 atmosphere within the Sanctum of Solitude was not merely cold; it was clinically void of life. Built from damp-dampening obsidian and lined with silver ley-lines that hummed with a low-frequency suppressive magic, the chamber was designed by Aurelius to be the ultimate crucible for the soul. To Aurelius, the universe was a series of elegant equations. Gwen, the current vessel of the Solar Core, was the most complex variable he had ever encountered—and her human emotions were the "noise" he intended to silence.


Chapter 60 - THE MEMORY OF DESIRE