Jayden POV
I am halfway back to the manor when I hear the crack, the sound is so loud it hurts my ears, and I jump. The wind rushes toward me like a wall from the forest behind me, making me stop when I feel my father’s magic erupt in me. His power bursts from my fingertips, twisting and escaping through the air. I watch his magic float on the breeze back toward the forest, as the light engulfed the sky.
It consumes the night and turns it to light. I watch as my father’s shadows move toward the ruins, slivering across the grass. “Kaif?” I ask because he is so quiet. I wonder if he is still with me.
“She broke the curse,” Kaif whispers to me, and I can feel shock wash through him.
“Marabella?” I worry.
“No, Katya,” he murmurs. The shadows move across the ground, disappearing into the forest, and I run toward the treeline. The oppressive forest feels light, like the shadows and ghosts of my ancestors are no longer shackled by the errors of a past that held them here, the torment and ang
