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Chapter 79. Bonded in fire

Author: jengreyy
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-03 05:39:00

* Zeina *

I was drowning.

The throne room was ablaze, not with fire, but with screaming light. Blinding, divine, merciless. It poured from every crevice of the marble floor, bleeding from the carved eyes of statues, licking up the pillars like holy judgment.

And in the center stood Celine.

Celine, Firstborn of the Rogue Alpha father of Cerberus, Celine, the blade the Council kept sheathed in ceremony but forged in punishment. Now my executioner.

She wore her ceremonial robes, silk as white as bone, stitched with silver runes that shimmered like frostbite. Her eyes were no longer the dark night I remembered when she was with Alpha Robert. They were lightless now. Starless. Eyes hollowed by prophecy and power and the Council's cruel favor.

"You were the jewel," she said. Her voice rang like bells underwater, muffled, warped, choking. "You were supposed to end the bloodline wars. Not ignite a new one."

My body felt frozen in place, knees half-buckled, my hands wrapped in chains I couldn'
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