---- "Hurt her?" Seraphina laughed maniacally. " Hahaha! Do you really think you're so great? Ninety-nine failed markings, when did you ever truly care about her? When did you not rush to my side?" "Be quiet!" Kaelen tried to cover her mouth, but she continued to scream hysterically. "While she was crying in her room, you were with me! While other Omegas mocked her, you were gentle with me! You say you love her? You only love the feeling of possessing her!" Kaelen let go of her, slumping to his knees. "You're right," he said, closing his eyes in pain. "I truly don't deserve her. I thought I was protecting her, but I was just satisfying my own possessiveness. I thought I could take care of everyone, but I ended up hurting the most important person." I watched this drama unfold with cold eyes, ---- feeling nothing but endless disgust and exhaustion. "Dogs fighting dogs, quite interesting," I said, turning to leave. "Banish them both!" "No! Lyra!" Kaelen was dragged up by the guards. "Please forgive me! I only now understand how foolish I've been!" "You understand now?" I turned back, a cold smile on my face. "Too late." "T know I don't have the right to ask for forgiveness, but please let me spend the rest of my life atoning!" Kaelen struggled. "I'll do anything... " "There's only one thing you can do." My voice was terrifyingly cold. Disappear completely from my life." Looking at Kaelen's desperate face, I felt not even a ripple of emotion. ---- "T understand." Kaelen lowered his head, his voice becoming calm. "You're right. I should let go." He stopped struggling, letting the guards drag him. "I'll leave, Lyra. I'll never bother you again." I turned to walk away, thinking this farce was finally over. But just as the guards were about to drag them out of the city gates, I heard Seraphina's shrill voice. "Wait!" Seraphina suddenly broke free from the guards, laughing wildly. "If I can't have it, then I'll destroy everything!" She raised her hands, chanting an ancient, evil incantation. Dark mist emanated from her body, and the air filled with the stench of death. "Shadow power?" My face changed. "How does she know this forbidden magic?!" ---- "Hahaha!" Seraphina cackled. "I couldn't become Luna, I was even cast out of my pack! This is all your fault! You're a princess, aren't you? Let all your subjects die with you!" Beastly howls came from the black mist, and pairs of blood-red eyes glinted within it. Shadow wolves crawled out from a rift in the abyss, lunging towards us.