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CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR: Ash Bargains
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Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN: The Day the Sky Fell Twice
The first sound was not thunder.It was a crack, sharp and clean, as if some great pane of glass had split across the sky.Elira woke to the cold spill of Hollow Star light flooding her chamber, its silver glare searing through the window as though it wanted her gone. She rose without thinking, bare feet silent against the stone, and stepped to the balcony.The Vale was not as it had been when she’d closed her eyes.The horizon wavered. Forests bled into mirrored versions of themselves, mountains doubling and sliding apart like mismatched cards in a deck. Towers she knew—her own Star Throne among them—stood twice over, one solid, one ghostly.And in that second world, she saw people moving. Not echoes. Not shadows. People.The Hollow Star hung above both skies, one pale and bleeding silver, the other bruised black as if the light had burned away. Between them yawned the rift—thin as a scar, but stretching from one horizon to the other.“Elira.”She turned to find Zara at her doorway,
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX: Ruby's Vow
The air in the training hall reeked of iron and starlight.It was past midnight. The torches burned low, their flames restless, throwing jagged shadows across the stone floor. Somewhere above, the Hollow Star’s pale light filtered through the skylight, turning the dust motes into drifting fragments of silver.Ruby stood in the center of the ring, her boots planted firmly on the worn flagstones. Across from her, Elira circled. The girl’s movements were precise, measured—too measured. She no longer moved like someone reacting to her opponent. She moved like someone obeying a rhythm no one else could hear.Since returning from the Hollow Court, something in Elira had been… altered. Her eyes lingered too long in the corners of a room, tracking things Ruby could not see. When she held her sword, her fingers twitched as though keeping time with a silent song.In the archway, Zara leaned against the wall, arms crossed, gaze steady but unreadable. She didn’t speak, didn’t interrupt. Zara neve
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE: The Hollow Court
The shadow’s directions had been maddeningly vague—find the place where the wind has no sound, where light folds in on itself, and you will find the Hollow’s gate.Elira had ridden for two days into the storm-swept barrens beyond the Vale, a place where even fire seemed to burn quieter. The air tasted like metal. Her mount’s hooves sank into ashen soil that clung to her boots when she dismounted. She had not told Zara or Ruby. If they knew, they’d follow—and she needed to do this alone.A jagged spire jutted from the wasteland like the tooth of something ancient and long buried. At its base, the air shimmered as if heat rose from unseen flames. She felt her skin tighten, her own light dimming under the weight of something watching.When she stepped closer, the shimmer gave way like water, and she fell forward——into silence.Her boots struck stone, black as obsidian and veined with faint, pulsing gold. A cavern stretched before her, lined with archways that opened into endless night.
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR: Ash Bargains
Smoke clung to the capital like a second sky. From the high balcony of the scorched citadel, Zara could see the ruins sprawled beneath the dawn’s ashen light—streets once silver-paved now cracked and dark, banners of rival Houses trampled in gutters. The air was dry, tasting faintly of cinder and old magic.Maxim stood at the balustrade, silent, his black coat torn at the shoulder. He hadn’t slept; his eyes were the wolf’s—gold shot through with shadow.“They’ll try to use this chaos,” Zara said quietly, stepping beside him. “Every pack leader who still smells blood will come to bargain for scraps.”“They’ll come for more than scraps,” Maxim replied. His voice was low, like a growl dragged over stone. “They’ll come for you.”Before she could answer, the sound of boots on tile broke the moment. Guards parted, revealing Ruby. She was still in the armor she’d worn to the fire lines, her braid loose, eyes bright with something Zara couldn’t read.“I bring news from the Ash Market,” Ruby s
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE: The Shadow at Her Back
The wind howled through the Vale’s eastern cliffs, dragging with it the copper tang of storm-bruised air. Elira’s boots dug into the frostbitten soil as she blocked Ruby’s strike, sparks flying from their clashing blades. Their breath fogged the morning, each exhale steaming like warhorses before a charge.“You’re slower today,” Ruby said, pushing forward, her eyes narrowed. “Too many visions keeping you awake?”“Just a headache,” Elira lied, though she felt the telltale ache in her chest again—the same hollow pulse she’d felt since the Ashen Crown had revealed its horrors. She pivoted, spinning away from Ruby’s blade, but her footing slipped.Pain lanced her side.When she looked down, her tunic wasn’t torn by steel—it was seeping light. Silver-gold drops fell to the earth, pooling like molten stars before sinking into the frost.Ruby froze. “Elira…”A chill prickled her neck. She turned slowly.Behind her, the shadow stood.It was not her shape. Not anymore. The figure was taller, b
Beast Billionaire Claim CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO: The Ashen Crown
The eruption began in silence.One moment, the Vale’s eastern horizon was whole and unbroken. The next, a pillar of black smoke punched into the sky, curling into the clouds like an uncoiling serpent. Zara’s scrying mirrors shattered one by one in the council chamber, each silver surface fracturing with a note like a ringing bell.By the time Elira reached the high balcony of the Star Throne, the air was thick with the smell of ash. The molten glow from the far mountain range pulsed like a second heartbeat across the land. She could feel it even here—heat pressing against her skin, carrying something older than the Vale itself.“That’s not an ordinary eruption,” Kael’s lingering flame murmured from its brazier beside her, voice a low crackle. “The mountain woke because something called it.”Elira didn’t reply. Her gaze was fixed on the jagged gap torn open near the volcano’s base. Through the haze, something glinted—too sharp, too deliberate to be stone.Hours later, she stood on scor
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