Chapter 194 – Ascension
–LIA’S POV-
It was over.
&
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The battle.
The war.
The world.
Nothing mattered anymore.
Minutes passed.
Zane did not move.
His body lay limp on the floor. His eyes were still open. Still staring at me. Unblinking.
“Zane,” I sobbed, shaking him by the shoulders. I pressed his chest, trying to resuscitate him.
But half his face was blown off. Parts of his abdomen too. I
hadn’t even seen his back.
How would he wake up?
He was… gone.
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My sobs only got louder, everything else blurring around me.
There was a click.
The same one I’d heard before Zane was shot.
I didn’t glance up.
The soldier could kill me.
It would be better that way.
My chest ached. My head spun.
The soldier screamed, and then a thud.
“Zane,” I heard Warner whisper.
I didn’t look up.
The Hounds circled around me.
Pained howls filled the air.
More Order soldiers closed in.
One laughed.
“The mission is successful,” he said. “Their little Alpha is dead.
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He died saving the girl. And she won’t survive either. What a waste.
My fists closed around the dirt, nails sharpening to points, digging into my palms.
Heat coursed through me, jaw clenching.
My chest heaved up and down, eyes never leaving my mate.
My love.
My Zane.
Hot tears rolled down my cheeks, a cry building in my throat.
“Let’s go, Lia Snow,” the soldier said, stepping towards me, his gun raised. “Time to leave. You’re gonna be cool to study.”
I squeezed my eyes shut, a hum rumbling beneath my skin.
“Take the dead Alpha too. Cut off his head properly. We can’t afford him healing and waking up again.”
Someone dared to step towards us.
I glanced up, heat filling my eyes.
The soldier flinched, backing away quickly.
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“Oh come on,” the one who’d ordered him laughed. “You’re such a pussy. Move, I’ll get him.”
I stood up, and without missing a beat. I screamed.
It cracked the air.
It wasn’t just a sound. It was a rupture. A tearing. Of grief, of silence, of something inside me that could no longer hold.
Zane was on the ground, blood soaking the dirt beneath us. His skin was pale. Too still. I couldn’t feel a heartbeat. Couldn’t hear him breathe.
I kept screaming. Or maybe I’d stopped. I couldn’t tell. Everything was breaking apart.
And then, the earth answered.
At first, I thought it was a vision. The world had tilted. But no—the ground truly trembled beneath me. A hum rose from the soil, low and deep like something ancient was waking up. I blinked, as dirt and stone shifted beneath my feet.
The ground moved.
Not like an earthquake.
It moved with purpose.
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Cracks formed in the earth, glowing faint silver and violet, like veins of buried starlight. The ground lifted—just slightly at first—rising beneath me and Zane. Stone curled upwards, jagged and sharp, forming a platform that pushed us up above the battlefield. Above the packs. Above The Order. Above the cruel world that had taken him from me.
A platform of earth. Of magic. Of me.
Somewhere below, I heard Sheila shout my name. Distant. Like
she was underwater.
I didn’t answer her. I didn’t move.
Something in me had woken up.
The sky responded.
Clouds tore open with a sound like ripping fabric. Smoke churned with light. And then, through the wreckage of the storm, the moon revealed itself.
But not just any moon.
The Blood Moon.
Hung high and red, glowing like an eye that had finally opened. It wasn’t time. We weren’t supposed to see it yet. But it was here now—angry, full, and very, very awake.
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My heart didn’t pound.
It roared.
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My skin pulsed with energy. Silver light cracked across my arms. Violet threads of magic wrapped around my ribs like armour, coiling up my spine. The pain in my leg vanished. The ache int my chest faded. My body wasn’t heavy anymore.
I was light.
I was fire.
I was something else.
The power didn’t explode. It unfolded. Carefully. Purposefully. Like it had been waiting for this moment—for me—since the day
I was born.
Below, the wolves stilled.
I saw them through new eyes, clearer than anything I’d ever seen. Zane’s wolves had stopped fighting. Their paws sank into the dirt as they bowed, heads lowered to the earth. Every single one of them—even the Hounds—dropped in perfect sync.
Then came Blake’s pack.
All of them dropped too. Their eyes shimmered as they knelt without hesitation.
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Then came the rogues.
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The ones The Order had chained, forced, tortured. Their bodies trembled. But it wasn’t fear. It was relief. As if they’d finally found something worth surrendering to. One by one, they sank to their knees, chests heaving, tails down.
I stared, breath caught in my throat, as the battlefield fell silent.
And then the humans followed.
The soldiers.
The Order.
At first, just one dropped his gun. It clattered against a piece of broken stone.
Then another. And another.
Metal rained down. Rifles, blades, grenades—all falling from nerveless hands. Dozens. Hundreds. All of them frozen in place, staring at me like I was something holy.
Something untouchable.
Even the medics, hiding near the trees, came forward slowly and dropped their weapons in the dirt.
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Not a single one ran.
They didn’t want to..
They were waiting.
For me.
A single man stepped through the crowd.
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The one who’d been shouting orders. The one who commanded a soldier to cut off Zane’s head. His eyes were wide, blank with something that wasn’t fear. His feet moved like he wasn’t the one controlling them.
He walked through his own army without resistance. Past the kneeling wolves. Past the stunned Hounds. Right up to the base of the platform I stood on.
His face was slack. Empty. But not dead.
He looked up at me like I was his salvation.
“My Goddess,” he whispered.
The words didn’t feel like his. They echoed too deeply, touched with something older than language.
“Command it,” he said. “Say the word, and we will all slit our throats for you.”
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Lucky Draw My jaw clenched, eyes lowering to Zane, and then to the rest of them.
It was what they deserved. Every single one of them.
All of them deserved to die.
