31| The Shift Of Power.

A high-pitched shrilling scream erupted from Miras' mouth. She turned over to her side and clutched the flesh that shielded her shattering heart. Pain as she had never felt before consumed her, and her breathing became laboured while her eyes sprang wide open.

The crowd went dead silent.

The guards who stood on the podium next to her ran for their lives, and Selena hissed with disgust.

"Witch!" She snarled. "The bitch is a fucking witch!"

Rage, heartache and despair grasped at the branches of Miras' stilled heart.

She had sensed Alpha Bastions' pain and heard him take his final breath.

If she was going to save him and Clohe, she only had a short window to do it, and she acquired a great deal of energy to do so.

She fed off the raw emotions that had her seeing crimson as she broke through the barrier that was holding her back from being the Blessed One.

Her fiery amber irises were replaced with eyes whiter than pearls as she drew from her source of energy, and the gold-plated coll