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Echoes of the Blood Coin

Author: Avalyn Noir
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-11 05:58:33

The city had started to heal. Months had passed since the golden light consumed everything, and the world that rose from the ashes looked almost human again. Almost.

Julian stood on the balcony of De’Marco Enterprises—what was left of it. Half the tower had crumbled during the collapse, but the rest had been rebuilt with a different purpose. No longer a symbol of power. Now, it was a sanctuary. The lower floors housed refugees and survivors. The upper floors had been converted into laboratories and archives, collecting what little was left of the knowledge the world used to know.

He looked out over the skyline. The veins of light that Aurora had left behind still glowed faintly beneath the streets. Every night, the city pulsed with it, like a heartbeat. Scientists called it a “bioluminescent anomaly.” The people called it her.

They whispered her name like a legend. The woman who became light. The savior of two worlds.

Julian had stopped trying to correct them.

“Still can’t sleep?”

He
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  • A Deal with the Mafia Lord   The Breath After the End

    The sea was still. The kind of still that made it hard to breathe. Smoke hung low over the harbor, rolling slowly over blackened ruins and fractured stone. The city was silent, almost reverent, as if the world itself had paused to witness the aftermath of what had been unleashed—and what had been lost.Julian sat at the edge of the pier, his hands stained with ash and salt. Aurora’s body lay beside him, her skin pale but serene, her hair fanned across the wet ground like gold threads caught in twilight. He had lost track of time. Maybe hours had passed. Maybe days. The sun refused to rise.Her hand was still warm when he held it, but the pulse he searched for was gone. He brushed his thumb over her knuckles and whispered, “You did it. You really did it.”The words broke in his throat. He had always believed he was the one who saved people—through control, through power, through force. But Aurora had done it by giving everything.“You were never afraid of dying,” he murmured, his voice

  • A Deal with the Mafia Lord   The Awakening

    The air split open with a sound like thunder buried under water. Aurora clutched Julian tighter as the ground beneath them trembled, the red light from the cracked Blood Coin bleeding through the darkness. Every pulse from it sent a wave of heat through her chest, stealing her breath. It wasn’t just energy anymore—it was something alive, something ancient, something that had been waiting for this moment.Julian groaned in her arms, his head rolling against her shoulder. His skin was hot, his pulse erratic. “Aurora,” he rasped. “Get away from it.”She shook her head, her voice trembling. “I can’t leave you.”His eyes fluttered open, a faint gold shimmer still lingering in them. “If it wakes fully, it won’t stop. Not for me. Not for anyone.”Before she could answer, the ground cracked again, and a fissure spread outward, glowing red-hot. The air filled with a low hum—a heartbeat, deep and resonant, shaking the world. The Blood Coin lifted from the ground, turning slowly, fragments of it

  • A Deal with the Mafia Lord   The Man Who Wasn’t Julian

    The air shimmered with the quiet after the storm. Aurora stood perfectly still, her pulse thudding in her throat. Julian—if that was truly him—stood only a few feet away, his figure haloed by the dim gold light of the Blood Coin. Everything about him looked the same. His shoulders, the way he tilted his head, the familiar warmth that should have melted her. But it didn’t. It chilled her instead.He smiled, slow and deliberate, his voice low. “You pulled me back, Aurora. You never could resist saving people who didn’t want saving.”Her lips parted. “Julian, it’s really you?”He took a step closer. The ground beneath his boots rippled faintly like disturbed water. “Who else would it be?”She should have run to him. She should have thrown herself into his arms and let the ache that had been tearing her apart dissolve. But something deep inside her screamed not to move. The air around him wasn’t right. It hummed wrong—too still, too perfect, like the silence before an explosion.Aurora sw

  • A Deal with the Mafia Lord   The Return of the Blood Coin

    Aurora’s breath hitched as the water rippled, sending gold spirals through the black surface. The Blood Coin moved slowly but deliberately, like it had a mind of its own, gliding toward the shore. For a heartbeat, she couldn’t move. Her pulse quickened, the cold air biting at her damp skin. “No,” she whispered. “This can’t be happening.”But it was.The coin shone brighter, pulsing with the same rhythm as the golden thread against her chest. Her body reacted before her mind could catch up—she stumbled backward, her heart hammering as memories flashed like lightning. The gate. The screams. Julian’s sacrifice.She took another step back, shaking her head. “You’re gone. You were destroyed. You can’t come back.”A gust of wind swept across the pier, cold and sharp, carrying with it a voice—low, distorted, and familiar. “Nothing stays buried, Aurora.”Her breath caught. “Who’s there?”From the shadows near the end of the dock, a figure emerged. Tall. Wrapped in a dark coat, his face half-h

  • A Deal with the Mafia Lord   Shadows of the Living

    Aurora didn’t move for a long time. The city was awake around her—horns blaring, neon signs flickering, footsteps splashing through puddles—but she was still caught between two worlds. The rain tasted like the sea from Country C, and every drop felt like a reminder that she shouldn’t be here. Not without him.She stood slowly, her knees trembling. The world spun for a moment before it steadied. The thread on her chest pulsed once, faintly, like a heartbeat that wasn’t her own. She touched it with shaking fingers. “Julian?” she whispered. Nothing. Only the whisper of wind across wet streets.She pulled her coat tighter around her and started walking, her mind blank but her body moving on instinct. The city lights blurred past, smeared gold and silver through the mist. Somewhere behind her, she swore she heard footsteps following, but when she turned, the street was empty.Hours later, she found herself at the edge of the harbor. The skyline shimmered across the water, steady and cold.

  • A Deal with the Mafia Lord   The Pulse Between World

    Aurora stood frozen as the glow around her deepened, golden light seeping from beneath her skin. The air thickened, humming with the same rhythm that had haunted her dreams since the night she left Country C. Julian’s fingers were still around her wrist, his grip steady, grounding. But the light between them was anything but gentle.He felt it first—a sudden heat, alive and violent, surging up her arm and into his veins. He hissed through his teeth and pulled back slightly, but didn’t let go. Aurora gasped, clutching his hand. “It’s happening again,” she whispered, her voice trembling. “It knows you’re here.”Julian’s jaw tightened. “Then let it know I’m not leaving.”The glow rippled, casting their faces in shifting gold. For a moment, she saw both of them reflected in the window—him standing tall and defiant, her trembling but unbroken. It was like watching two flames battle to stay lit in the same wind.“Julian, listen to me.” Aurora’s voice shook, desperation breaking through the

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