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CHAPTER 12: The Blood Between Us

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The vault door sealed behind them with a final, metallic groan that echoed into the night like a warning. Ash still clung to Yvette’s clothes. The moonlight slashed through the treetops, casting silver bars across Cara’s pale, sleeping face.

She had whispered it just once — “You were never hers.”

And now that silence rang louder than any scream.

Yvette didn’t speak as Tristan guided them back to the truck. She held Cara tightly, as though afraid letting go might allow something else to slip into the child’s body—something older than memory.

Only when they were halfway up the gravel pass did she finally ask, “What did she mean?”

Tristan didn’t look at her. His hands gripped the wheel too tightly, knuckles white against the leather.

“Don’t do that,” she snapped. “Not now.”

He still didn’t answer.

Yvette’s voice cracked. “Did you know?”

He pulled over abruptly, tires skidding across loose gravel. “Not like that,” he muttered. “Not… all of it.”

“Not all of what, Tristan?”

He turned slowly
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    The mirror’s surface shimmered like a restless sea, its fractured edges now mysteriously whole. Yvette’s breath caught as the reflection inside shifted—no longer just her face, but a flicker of something else, something dark and familiar.Her fingers hovered, trembling, over the glass. The silence in the room was deafening, broken only by the faint whisper of a voice she thought she’d buried deep inside herself.“Yvette…”The name echoed in the hollow space, as if carried on the cold wind itself.She spun around, heart hammering, but the room was empty. Or so it seemed.Behind her, shadows curled into shapes — twisting, alive, reaching.Tristan’s voice came from the doorway, low and urgent. “We don’t have much time. The Network is closing in.”Yvette nodded, forcing calm into her voice. “Cara… she’s gone. And this mirror—it’s not just glass anymore.”Tristan’s eyes darkened. “It’s a gateway. We need to find out what it’s keeping before it’s too late.”But what the mirror kept, Yvette

  • A LOVE LIKE OURS   CHAPTER 16: What The Mirror keeps

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  • A LOVE LIKE OURS   CHAPTER 15: The Cost Of Silence

    Yvette stared at him.Tristan. Chained. Bleeding. Still alive.And smiling like a man who had already said goodbye.“You can’t be serious,” she whispered, her voice trembling. “There has to be another way.”“There’s not,” he said calmly. “I’ve looked. Elise looked. Your mother tried. But once the echo roots in both vessels, the only way to silence it is to sever the source.”“You’re not the source.”“I was made to be. As your mirror. Your twin in the ritual. We were designed to balance each other. You carry Elias’s voice. I carry his memory.”He looked up at her, and for the first time in weeks, Yvette saw the boy she used to know—before the Network, before the bloodlines, before the secrets.“If I stay alive, he has a path back. A thread. If you let me go…” He paused. “You could finally be free.”---But the thought of killing him made her soul crack.She stumbled back, breath uneven. “You’re asking me to become like them.”“I’m asking you to end them.”Tristan’s voice broke. “Yvette

  • A LOVE LIKE OURS   CHAPTER 14: Echoes That Remain

    The silence wasn’t peacefulIt was raw. Open. Agonizing.Yvette woke to the cold bite of stone beneath her, a metallic taste in her mouth, her ears ringing with echoes of a scream she wasn’t sure she had made. Her body felt scorched from the inside out. The ritual chamber was still cloaked in shadows, except now… it felt emptier than death.She sat up slowly, heart pounding.“Cara?” she croaked.No answer.“Tristan?”Her voice dissolved into the thick, unmoving air.The ritual mirror lay shattered before her, not in pieces—but in slivers, as if the very concept of reflection had been sliced to ribbons. She crawled toward it, hand shaking, and reached for one of the shards.As her fingers brushed the glass, the room flickered.And in the glass—Not her face.Not anymore.She saw Tristan.Strapped to a chair. Bleeding from the mouth. Still alive.Somewhere.She gasped—and the vision vanished.“No,” she whispered. “No, no—please—show me again!”But the shard remained blank.She turned to

  • A LOVE LIKE OURS   CHAPTER 13: Vessel of Silence

    Yvette’s breath caught in her throat.“Through me?”Cara’s voice had changed. It wasn’t her usual soft cadence. It was distant—like the echo of someone else speaking through a tunnel of time.Tristan moved slowly toward the child. “Yvette, don’t touch her yet. He’s… close.”Yvette ignored him and dropped to her knees beside the bed. “Cara, sweetheart, listen to me. Whatever you’re hearing, whatever you’re feeling—it’s not real. It’s not you.”Cara turned her head, eyes locking onto Yvette’s. There was something unnatural about them. The irises shimmered like oil on water—dark, shifting, depthless.“He showed me,” she whispered. “He said you’re the door. He just needs to step through you, and everything will begin again. Better this time. He said you were made for it.”“No.” Yvette shook her head, voice trembling. “No one made me.”“You’re not Elise’s.”Yvette felt her chest split.Tristan stepped forward. “She doesn’t know what she’s saying.”Cara blinked, and the strange shimmer disa

  • A LOVE LIKE OURS   CHAPTER 12: The Blood Between Us

    The vault door sealed behind them with a final, metallic groan that echoed into the night like a warning. Ash still clung to Yvette’s clothes. The moonlight slashed through the treetops, casting silver bars across Cara’s pale, sleeping face.She had whispered it just once — “You were never hers.”And now that silence rang louder than any scream.Yvette didn’t speak as Tristan guided them back to the truck. She held Cara tightly, as though afraid letting go might allow something else to slip into the child’s body—something older than memory.Only when they were halfway up the gravel pass did she finally ask, “What did she mean?”Tristan didn’t look at her. His hands gripped the wheel too tightly, knuckles white against the leather.“Don’t do that,” she snapped. “Not now.”He still didn’t answer.Yvette’s voice cracked. “Did you know?”He pulled over abruptly, tires skidding across loose gravel. “Not like that,” he muttered. “Not… all of it.”“Not all of what, Tristan?”He turned slowly

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