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Chapter 124

Author: Layomi
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-09 22:09:01

Celeste's POV

Cold,everything was cold.

The floor under my back was hard concrete. It smelled like death and blood. Like things that should be buried.

But I wasn't dead.

Not anymore.

I opened my eyes slow. The world looked different. Colors were brighter. Sounds were louder. I could hear a mouse moving in the wall twenty feet away. Could smell fear and pain soaked into the concrete around me.

I sat up. My body moved wrong. Too smooth. Too easy. Like I was floating instead of moving.

The den was quiet now. Bodies everywhere. Darius's men scattered around like broken toys. Blood on the walls. Holes in the concrete from bullets and claws.

I looked down at myself. My clothes were torn and bloody. But my skin was perfect. No wounds. No cuts. Just pale white skin that seemed to glow in the dark.

And on my chest, over my heart, was a mark I'd never seen before.

It looked like a crescent moon made of silver fire. It pulsed with my heartbeat. Each pulse sent warmth through my whole body.

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