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Chapter 57: A Heart Willing to Break
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2025-11-15 04:49:04Alexander stood frozen, staring at Lena’s lifeless body on the metal table.
Her lips bluish.
Her chest barely rising — if at all.
His own heartbeat thundered painfully.
Hearing Cassandra say you will die didn’t scare him.
He stepped closer, brushing his hand gently across her cheek.
“I’m here,” he whispered. “I’m right here, Lena…”
Elias watched silently, jaw clenched, a storm of emotions tightening his features.
Rage.
Fear.
And something he’d never admit aloud:
Cassandra circled the table, her eyes sharp and calculating.
“We don’t have much time,” she said. “Her heart is slowing. The purge is settling. If it roots fully…”
“…no one can save her.”
Alexander nodded once.
Resolved.
“What do I have to do?” he asked, voice cracking.
Cassandra hesitated — the slightest flicker of conflict in her otherwise cold demeanor.
“The purge inside her… it needs an anchor. A stronger body. A stronger will. One tied to the Circle by blood.”
“That’s me,” Alexander said immediately.
Elias stepped forward sharply. “You can’t just—”
Alexander turned to him, voice low and raw.
Elias’s jaw tightened. “I know. But we need to think—”
Alexander shoved past him. “There’s nothing to think about.”
Elias grabbed his arm.
Alexander stopped, glaring at his brother.
Elias swallowed, voice breaking for the first time.
“You’re my only family left.”
Alexander froze.
Elias’s eyes softened — something vulnerable slipping through the cracks.
“Don’t make me watch you die too.”
Alexander stared at him.
Then whispered:
“You want me alive? Help me save her.”
Elias let go.
He stepped back, face hollow with grief he didn’t know how to express.
Cassandra prepared two metal cuffs, each glowing with faint blue circuits.
“These will link your circulatory systems,” she explained. “Your blood… your energy… will flow between you both.”
Alexander nodded quickly.
Cassandra didn’t move.
Her voice lowered.
“Alexander… you need to understand the full truth.”
He frowned. “What truth?”
Cassandra exchanged a glance with Elias — a heavy, knowing glance.
Then she spoke.
“The purge doesn't just kill the recipient.”
Alexander’s stomach tightened. “What do you mean?”
Cassandra’s tone was soft. Serious.
“It consumes them.”
Elias froze. “Cassandra—”
She continued.
“It burns the soul. The memories. The essence. When it’s done… the person is gone.”
Alexander felt the world tilt.
“Gone… how?”
Cassandra whispered:
“Gone. Not dead. Erased.”
Alexander’s breath shattered.
Lena would wake up — and he would not only be dead…
Lena would go on living…
his voice,
his love.
Her world would never have had Alexander Knight in it.
He choked on the realization.
“That’s the price?” he whispered hoarsely. “She lives… and I disappear?”
Cassandra nodded. “Yes.”
Alexander looked at Lena again — at her motionless form, her hair falling over her face, her fingers curled weakly.
He loved her enough to die.
But did he love her enough…
Elias saw the torment in his eyes.
And for the first time, Elias broke.
“Alex…” Elias whispered. “We can find another way. Please—”
But Alexander shook his head.
“There is no other way.”
He lifted Lena’s hand, pressing it to his lips — one last trembling kiss.
“I promised you,” he whispered, voice breaking. “I’d protect you. Even from this.”
Elias suddenly slammed his fist into the table, eyes burning.
“DAMN IT, ALEX! If you take the purge—she lives, and you’re GONE!”
Alexander wiped a tear from his cheek — the first Elias had ever seen.
“That’s the point,” he whispered.
Cassandra raised the cuffs again.
Alexander didn’t hesitate.
“Yes.”
Elias’s breath hitched.
He stepped forward, grabbing Cassandra’s wrist. “Wait.”
Alexander turned sharply. “Elias—”
Elias looked between them — Alexander, Lena, Cassandra — and something inside him broke open.
He whispered:
“There IS another way.”
Alexander frowned. “What are you talking about?”
Elias stepped closer to Lena.
Devastated.
“The purge needs someone of the bloodline.”
He met Alexander’s eyes.
“I’m of the bloodline too.”
Alexander froze.
“No.”
Elias nodded.
“Yes.”
Alexander shook his head violently. “Elias—you’ll die—”
Elias smiled faintly, bitterly.
“Alex… I’ve been living on borrowed time since the night my mother died.”
Alexander swallowed, voice trembling. “You can’t—”
Elias placed his hand gently on Lena’s cold arm.
“One of us dies tonight,” he whispered. “It doesn’t have to be you.”
Alexander shook his head harder. “I won’t let you.”
“You can’t stop me.”
Cassandra stepped back — surprised, even shaken.
“Elias…” she murmured. “You understand what that means?”
Elias nodded.
Certain.
“I die. And she lives.”
Alexander grabbed Elias by the shirt, voice breaking into a raw scream.
“YOU’RE MY BROTHER!”
Elias stared straight into his eyes — and whispered:
“Then let me save her.”
Alexander’s hand trembled.
Tears fell.
Slowly…
Painfully…
He let go.
Elias stepped toward Cassandra.
“Prepare the transfer.”
Cassandra hesitated only a heartbeat.
Then nodded.
Alexander crumpled beside Lena, sobbing quietly.
Elias stood over them, eyes soft, full of something rare and beautiful:
Peace.
He whispered to Lena’s still form:
“Live, little flame.”
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