The True Alpha of Lupine (Seraphina and Ronan) novel Chapter 169

SERAPHINA

The Ghost Forest thundered with the pounding of paws, the ground trembling beneath the stampede of werewolves as the cursed trial tore through legend and reality alike. Shadows writhed with every shake of the earth, whispering of death.

1, however, could not shift no matter how much I wanted to. My white wolf would expose my identity to the other Alphas, and that risk was as deadly as the curse itself.

Yet the danger pursuing me was worse. It wasn’t just physical, it pressed against my soul, clawing at my spirit, a presence that made my blood run cold. The curse was alive and it was hunting me.

A faint voice drifted through the misty trees, so close it might have been whispered against my ear.

“You are my Beta.”

My eyes snapped wide, darting toward the sound. My breath hitched. The trial had begun, everyone was meant to recognize one another but why did the recognition carry a howl afterward? A sound that felt more like mourning than triumph?

My heart pounded with panic, but my legs did not slow. I couldn’t stop. Not now. Not when the curse breathed down my neck. The only chance of survival lay in finishing the trial…before death devoured me and the White Feather Door appeared.

A blur of black tore through the snow to her right. My eyes caught on him instantly, an Alpha wolf. I immediately recognized him, Alpha Linus.

We locked eyes mid–stride, the mark on the back of my hand throbbing in response. Recognition pulsed between us, undeniable. My lips parted to speak the words that would seal the bond-

-but Linus’s gaze flicked backward.

In that instant, I saw it too.

My breath caught as my vision filled with the sight of an abnormally large shadow, monstrous and grotesque, its form shifting like smoke and nightmare given flesh. Its features were twisted, lethal, its very stare promised death.

Chapter 169 You Are My

The curse.

Before I could even warn him, it swung its massive weapon down on Linus.

A single blink-

–and he was gone.

Blood and flesh exploded into the snow, spraying scarlet across the white forest floor. The ground drank his life in an instant, staining the mist with the copper sting of death. Where Linus had been, nothing remained but crimson slush and silence.

The shadow vanished with him, dissolving into the forest as though it had never been, leaving behind only terror and proof that the curse was no myth.

My stomach dropped, my entire being trembled with horror. I had just witnessed the most grotesque truth of my life.

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