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Chapter 38 – Shackled Hearts
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2025-10-17 19:22:46
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The symbol pulsed.My dagger answered.For a heartbeat, everything else fell away, the shattered clearing, Damien’s presence, the weight of the curse.All I could see was that mark.Identical.Impossible.“Who are you?” I demanded, my voice still edged with the lingering echo of the shadows.The masked stranger lowered their hand slowly, as if the reveal had already said enough.“You already know what I am,” they replied.“I asked who,” I snapped.Behind me, I felt Riven step closer despite the strain in his body. His presence anchored me, steady and unyielding.“That symbol,” he said sharply. “It belongs to Shadowfang’s first Alpha line. It should not exist outside our blood.”The stranger tilted their head slightly. “Blood has a way of traveling farther than loyalty.”My grip tightened around the dagger. “You’re connected to my grandmother.”A pause.Then,“Yes.”The answer hit harder than I expected.“How?” I pressed. “What did she hide? What didn’t she tell me?”The shadows at my
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“Now, the heir belongs to me.”Damien’s words didn’t echo.They settled.Heavy. Final.Something inside me cracked.Not fear.Not a weakness.Restraint.The ancient dagger in his hand pulsed in rhythm with my fading heartbeat. Riven’s arm tightened around me, his body a shield I could barely feel anymore.I was slipping.Not into unconsciousness.Into something deeper.“You don’t own me,” I whispered.Damien stepped closer. “You misunderstand. I don’t need to own you. I only need to awaken you.”The shadows at my feet trembled.Not because I summoned them.Because they heard him.I felt it then—the fracture in my control. The barrier I had spent my entire life building to keep the darkness contained.The healer’s fragment still burned faintly inside my chest. The dagger throbbed in my palm. Kael lay motionless. Riven’s pulse thundered against my back.And Damien smiled like he had already won.Something primal rose in my throat.Enough.I stopped fighting the drain.Stopped trying to
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There was no saving them both.The realization tore through me like a blade.Kael’s arm drew back. His strike would be fatal this time—clean, direct, unstoppable.Riven shifted behind me, preparing to counter.If he moved, Kael would die.If I hesitated, Riven would.So I chose.I didn’t block.I redirected.The dagger in my hand burned as I twisted my wrist sharply and stepped into Kael’s attack instead of away from it. At the last second, I altered the current of power running through the blade—angling it sideways rather than forward.The air between us warped.Kael’s strike veered violently off course as if seized by an invisible hand. His blade tore past my shoulder instead of Riven’s heart, slicing through fabric and skin.Pain flared hot and immediate.But it wasn’t deep enough to kill.The redirected force exploded outward.Kael was thrown sideways, crashing into the frost-covered earth with a brutal thud. His weapon skidded across the clearing.Riven lunged toward me at the sa
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The echo of the dagger hitting stone still rattled in my bones. My breath caught, every sense straining, waiting for the next strike. The corridor seemed to shrink around me, shadows thickening, whispering promises of death.Then I heard it—the whisper of steel slicing air.I dropped instinctively,
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