Mira Thornvale

Lia was once the healer of the White Rose Clan. At seventeen, she watched her people slaughtered by the Bloodclaw Legion. She survived only because she treated an injured enemy soldier—an act that branded her a traitor. To protect that boy, she willingly endured three years of imprisonment in the Bloodclaw camp, never uttering a word.

She believed he had long forgotten her. Yet she never knew that boy was now the Bloodclaw's ruthless warlord—Karl Thorne, codenamed "The Bone General," who swore an oath to "sever all ties to the past with his own hands."


The Wolfbone Promise

“Clear the table! I want every stabilizer, now!”


Karl kicked open the doors to the high lab—Lia cradled in his arms, barely breathing. Her skin had gone marble‑white, veins laced with creeping black lines.


The chief surgeon paled. “Commander—”


“Not commander.” Karl’s voice cracked. “Not today. Just save her.”


Karl drew his blade and pressed it to the surgeon’s throat. “Move.”


In seconds, the table was prepped. Machines screamed. Vials shattered. A line was tapped into her neck—blood pumped slow, irregular.


“Wolfbone toxin’s binding to her nerves,” one medic muttered. “Her organs are liquefying.”


Karl gritted his teeth. “Then we reset her system.”


He slammed a glowing core onto the tray—the one embedded inside his own chest: Wolfbone Engine MK-II.


“That’s your heart,” a nurse whispered.


“It’s the only prototype left,” Karl said. “If we implant it into her—”


Chapter 12 – The Silver‑Eyed Promise