CHAPTER 133: THE CELESTIAL WOLF’S REVENGE

I could feel that Rion wanted to end Finn with his own hands, but he respected that I had to do it myself. To let go of my past and what happened to my family, I had to avenge them. I couldn’t let anyone else do it.

He understood what I wanted, so he just stood there, waiting for me to finish what I started.

He would stay back to watch the show and enjoy it.

Leika and I turned to Finn. We growled as we stepped closer. I could feel Leika’s anger mixing with mine, amplifying everything inside me.

I didn’t understand why I had the power and form of the celestial wolf, but for now I wouldn’t think about it. I would use it to escape Finn and kill him.

Before Finn could shift, I had jumped onto him, pinning him to the ground.

"How did you become the celestial wolf? Did you know from the beginning?" he stammered, voice trembling with anger and confusion.

I could tell that never in his wildest dreams had he imagined the slightest possibility that he’d be at my mercy.

"If... if you really are the celestial wolf, then forgive me, Vien. I didn’t know! I’m so sorry for what I’ve done! Let’s start over, okay?" He forced a soft smile. "Please, give me another chance to correct my wrongs. You will have a place here in the Levian pack. You will be my Luna, and you’ll have everything. We will rule the continent together! We will lead the Unified Alliance—"

My claws dug into his arms, making him groan. He looked ridiculous in this state. Now that he was in front of the celestial wolf he’d been waiting for his whole life, he didn’t hesitate to abase himself like a beggar.

"Can you hear yourself?" I spoke into his mind. "You are fucking pathetic, Finn. A moment ago you wanted to kill me, and now you’re begging me to be your Luna?"

I laughed, and my wolf shuddered in satisfaction.

"You are insane, Finn. I would be crazy to stay in this place with you."

"You are just brainwashed, Vivien! Think about our past! We grew up together. I know you loved me! I know you still do!"

Rion’s displeased growl echoed in my head. It seemed he heard Finn’s words perfectly well.

I bit Finn’s shoulder and threw him to the center of the dais. Wisps of shadow wrapped around his arms, chaining him down. I knew it was Rion’s doing, and I didn’t mind him lending a hand.

"Love you? Where on earth did you get that? Maybe I did like you, but that was a long time ago. When you sentenced my father to death without justice, I knew you were no longer my friend. I stopped caring about you."

No Levian warrior dared come near me as I forced their alpha to kneel. They were too terrified to act after what they’d seen me do.

My wolf wore the form of the Celestial wolf, the power humming under our skin, and I wouldn’t hesitate to kill anyone who tried to stop me from taking my revenge on Finn.

"You are just angry that’s why you’re saying that! Come on, Vien, just forgive me, okay? I will make it up to you, I promise! I will be good! I will do everything you want me to do."

"When I begged you to spare Stella, did you even hear me? When I begged you to stop that night you brought me to your bed, did you listen? When you killed my mother in front of me, did you even feel an ounce of remorse? You didn’t..."

"The Unified Alliance granted me the right to mate with you! You are mine! You should be with me and no one else!" he blurted, desperate.

I ground my teeth. "The Unified Alliance decided that for themselves, using the excuse of a contest. But did the Moon Goddess give them that right? Did you have the goddess’s permission to claim the Celestial Wolf? No. That’s wishful thinking, Finn. You never had a claim on her. And if I am the Celestial, I would rather die than be your mate."

"But in that case," I added, "I wouldn’t be the one to die. You would."

Leika and I lifted our faces to the sky, and the storm above seemed to answer. Power thrummed through our bones.

At a single thought, the sky tore open. Blinding white split the clouds, and lightning descended.

Finn screamed as the first bolt hit him, his voice swallowed by the thunder. The second came before he could draw breath, and his body jerked violently, muscles locking, veins bursting beneath his skin. His Alpha blood fought to keep him alive, to resist, but no mortal strength could withstand the wrath of the skies.

The third strike shattered the last remnants of pride in his eyes. He was trembling now, his body smoking, his knees digging into the cracked stone as the lightning carved luminous veins into the ground around him.

The sky itself seemed to rage for me, its fury mine to command.

When the fourth bolt struck, the sound was deafening. The square fell silent except for the hiss of rain beginning to fall and steam rising from Finn’s scorched skin. His breath came out ragged, shallow.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, glinting crimson against the ash smeared across his face.

Still, he clung to consciousness. Barely. His once-golden eyes were dull now, wide with disbelief that his fate had turned this way.

"How does it feel to be tortured like a criminal?" I asked, though I knew he had no strength to answer.

Seeing him like that was enough. I felt no remorse. After what he’d done, after my father died and my mother was killed before my eyes, I wanted to give him the death he deserved.

Leika and I moved behind him. We bit his head off, then cast his body before his people.