Chapter 45. Bond Ignited

The white-hot light was not an explosion, but an implosion. It drew the chaotic, self-consuming energy of Aria’s fracturing Flameborn core, wrapped it in the powerful, ancient stability of Kade’s Crest essence, and sealed them both within a singular, violent, binding embrace.

Kade felt his consciousness rip, stretch, and then seamlessly mend. The boundary between his mind and hers dissolved entirely. He was no longer just Kade, Alpha of the Crest, bound by duty and lineage; he was the anchor for a cosmic, devastating power.

Inside his soul, the change was absolute. He felt the terrifying, agonizing heat of the Moon Wolf’s fire—not as an enemy, but as his own circulatory system, flowing alongside his ancestral copper-gold magic. The fire had been wild, desperate, and suicidal; now, held by the deep, steady current of his Alpha core, it became quiet. It settled into a burning, eternal reservoir, clean and contained.

He felt the immense, raw force of the Moon Wolf ess