Chapter 106: The Bond of Family

Serena POV

The spirit world was breaking.

Not shattering all at once—no, this was slower, crueler. Cracks crawled through the false Nightshade like veins of rot beneath skin. Trees groaned as if alive, their twisted branches bending inward, drawn toward the storm of power tearing through the clearing.

Lucien fought like a force of nature.

Not reckless. Not wild.

Focused.

Every strike of his spirit-form carried the weight of an Alpha who had already lost ...