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."

With a final, desperate burst of physical speed, Gwen lunged forward through the rapidly collapsing gap beneath the fading void shield. Her heavy leather boots cleared the outermost stone perimeter of the Grand Conservatory just as the entire three-hundred-foot marble structure collapsed violently inward. The grand temple did not leave behind solid debris; it turned into a massive, lifeless cloud of grey sand that billowed upward, blotting out the northern horizon like a suffocating desert storm. The kinetic shockwave slammed into her spine, throwing her forward into the ash-choked dirt, her fingers clawing at the loose earth as the vacuum of the building's erasure dragged the very air from her lungs.


Chapter 183 - THE REFRACTION EXODUS