Episode: 4Episodes: 40
Selena checks a castle map, evades patrolling elders, and slips into a restricted chamber. A maid shows her the barrier core. Selena drips blood onto the altar to open an exit and flees into the woods. Riven tells her that Victor killed her parents. Assassins ambush them, but Riven slaughters them. He suppresses Selena's burning blood bond, and she sneaks back inside. Caleb Drakes immediately senses her absence.
Selena examines a stolen castle map while moving quietly through the corridors. She dodges patrolling elders along the way. She navigates the hallways and searches for the hidden entrance to the restricted chamber.
Selena walks into the restricted chamber and discovers an altar. A maid enters and interrupts her. Instead of sounding an alarm, the maid explains that this core can open an escape route for ten minutes.
Selena drips her own blood onto the stone altar. The magic shatters a glowing hole straight through the castle wall. She climbs out through the gap and runs into the open fields outside.
Selena reaches the moonlit forest and meets Riven among the trees. She confronts him directly about her family. She demands to know the truth about how her mother and father died years ago.
Riven tells Selena that her mother was Luna Voss, the final moon priestess. He explains that her father was a pure-blooded vampire. Victor targeted both parents and killed them right after Selena was born.
Victor's vampire assassins ambush Selena and Riven in the woods. An assassin stabs Riven in the shoulder. Riven orders Selena to close her eyes, unleashes his wolf strength, and slaughters every attacker.
Caleb's blood bond suddenly flares with intense pain across Selena's chest. Riven channels his power to awaken the mark on her neck. This action calms the burning crest and suppresses the bond for one hour.
Riven escorts Selena back to the outer wall. She climbs through the barrier and slips into the dark corridors. Across the castle, Caleb Drakes feels the shift in their blood connection and detects her absence.
“This is the barrier's core. Push against it from the inside and the boundary opens for ten minutes.”
“Your mother's name was Luna Voss. She was the last moon priestess.”
“Victor wants her gone before the Prince finds out.”
“Close your eyes.”
“You went to him.”
Selena makes it back past the perimeter wall and steps back into the castle halls. In the shadows, Caleb Drakes senses the disturbed bond and whispers that she went to Riven. Will Caleb punish Selena for meeting the wolf Alpha, and can she keep Victor's plot secret before the vampire elders find out?