Just as my consciousness started to slip away, I
fell into a cool, powerful embrace.
I looked up into a devastatingly handsome face.
One of his eyes was covered by a patch, which
did nothing to diminish his looks. It only added
a touch of wild, dangerous charm. Behind him
stood two other gorgeous men. One was cool
and distant, the other had a sweet, shy look,
and both of them were staring at me with deep
worry.
“Elara. let us help you.” Kael’s husky voice was
like a spell, pulling me deeper into his arms.
The moment our skin touched, he felt like a
cool spring in a burning desert. My throat was
on fire, and like a traveler dying of thirst, I
desperately wanted more.
But some part of me, the part that was still me,
screamed no.
“Get out!”
The three men stood outside the cave, staring
at each other in disbelief. They had modeled
their human forms after the most popular
shifters.
The Kiera from their past life couldn’t take her
eyes off men who looked like them.
Yet after all the effort it took them to finally
shift, Elara had thrown them out.
It was in that moment that Ash and Roc finally
believed, without a doubt, that I was not the
same woman from their past life.
When I emerged from the cave the next day, I
was exhausted.
The three of them were waiting for me at the
entrance. “You…”
Their eyes held a trace of disappointment, but also a profound sense of awe.
She truly was a goddess. To endure even that
on her own…
“Elara, you need to eat something to get your
strength back.”
Kael gently placed a bowl of warm meat broth
in front of me.
“You need to rest for a few days. We’ll handle
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the hunting.”
I nodded, too tired to refuse.
Between the mating heat and the ice bath, I
was completely drained.
Lying on the stone bed, my thoughts turned to
the war that would come after winter.
In my last life, this was when Kael and the
others had died protecting Kiera.
And it was then that I had commanded my tiger
and lion to save the remnants of the Clearwater
Tribe, absorbing them into my own.
Those rescued shifters had become fiercely
loyal to me, their savior.
My Wildplains Tribe grew larger and larger, its
members unbreakably loyal to their leader.
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This time, however, a dark glint appeared in my
eyes.
The white tiger, the black lion, and the eagle
would ‘find it much harder to conquer the
Clearwater Tribe now.
After all, how could their coddled, comfortable
shifters compare to ours, who had fought for
every scrap of survival?
Kiera was probably starting to realize that being
a Divine Maiden wasn’t as easy as she thought.
