Bound to the Triplet Alphas

ELDER COUNCIL LEADER MORGANA POV

The crystal shattered in my hands.

Blood ran down my fingers as the old communication stone broke apart. The message it brought made my thousand-year-old heart race with fear.

"The camp is under attack," I whispered to the other Elder Council members. "The Shadow Lords have begun their final assault."

Around the holy circle, eleven other ancient beings sat in their stone chairs. Some were vampires, others were witches, and a few were werewolves older than the mountains themselves. We were the Elder Council, the hidden guardians of the supernatural world.

𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

And we were about to make the hardest choice in our long lives.

"How many are dead?" asked Elder Cornelius, a vampire who had lived through the fall of Rome.

"Too many," I said, wiping blood from my hands. "And more will die if we don’t act now."

Elder Freya, a Norse witch, leaned forward. "The time has come, hasn’t it? We must reveal the Ancient Pact."

The other adults fell silent. We had hoped this day would never come. For three thousand years, we had kept the secret locked away, hidden from the younger generations.

"Are you sure?" asked Elder Chen, a dragon shifter from ancient China. "Once we tell them, there’s no going back."

I closed my eyes and felt the weight of ages on my shoulders. "The Shadow Lords are too strong. They’ve tainted too many of our people. Normal guns won’t stop them anymore."