Chapter 51

Blood pooled around Thane's motionless form, staining the cold stone floor. Lucius, frozen in a mixture of anguish and rage, stood in disbelief, his eyes fixed on his fallen brother. Azaroth stood unflinching, a twisted smile etching its way across his face. "Let this serve as a lesson to all who dare defy me," he announced with an unnerving calmness, his voice a chilling echo in the chamber. Lucius, torn from his grief by a surge of raw rage, snapped back to reality. In a ferocious display of primal instinct, he launched himself at Azaroth, his movements fueled by a seething vengeance and grief-stricken fury. Azaroth, sensing the impending threat, shifted immediately into his wolf. The sentinels of the dead got ready to intervene but hesitated as Azaroth's commanding growl signaled that this was his battle. With the woman's power coursing through his veins and the painful loss of Thane tearing through his heart, Lucius, too, underwent a transformation. His wolf fought with a forc