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Chapter 90
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2026-11-10 05:18:35
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ELIZABETH’S POVDamon didn’t let go of my hand. Not once. Not as we rushed up the stone staircase, not as we crossed the underground corridor, and not even when we reached the hidden door leading back into the mansion.His grip remained firm, focused, purposeful, as though he’d already decided I wasn’t leaving his sight.Not that I was complaining.Okay, maybe I was a little. Mostly because every time I remembered he was holding my hand, my heart started behaving strangely. Which was incredibly inconvenient during a possible supernatural emergency.The moment we stepped into the hallway, Damon stopped so suddenly that I nearly walked straight into him. Again. At this point, I was beginning to think embarrassing myself around him was becoming a personality trait.The mansion was silent. Too silent. The kind of silence that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.Damon’s eyes narrowed as he listened. Somewhere in the distance, a door slammed, the sound echoing through the house.
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ELIZABETH’S POVThe words on the stone didn’t change.They didn’t need to.The Key shall return.I stared at them for several long seconds. Something about seeing those words carved into ancient stone made my chest feel tight. Not because they were surprising. At this point, everyone seemed determined to remind me that I was the Key.No. What unsettled me was the age of it.This tablet had been hidden beneath the mansion long before I was born, long before I had ever set foot in New Orleans. And yet, somehow, it was talking about me. Or at least about someone like me.I folded my arms. “Of course it says that.”My voice sounded small in the enormous chamber.“Because apparently being hunted by supernatural creatures wasn’t enough.”Silence.I looked towards Damon and immediately knew something was wrong. He wasn’t looking at me. He was staring at the tablet, completely focused. The teasing mood from earlier had vanished, and his jaw had tightened as his silver-grey eyes remained fixed
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ELIZABETH’S POVI followed Damon through the mansion. No explanation, no destination. Just Damon walking ahead of me as though I was supposed to magically know where we were going. Typical.The morning sun filtered through the enormous windows as we moved through the quiet hallways. Most of the house was still asleep. Or pretending to be. With this family, it was hard to tell.I glanced at his back. Black shirt, dark jeans, hands in his pockets. Relaxed. At least he looked relaxed. With Damon, appearances meant absolutely nothing.“You know,” I said.“Hmm?”“You could tell me where we’re going.”“No.”I rolled my eyes. “You’re incredibly annoying,” I whispered to myself, forgetting he could literally hear me.“So I’ve been told.”His voice carried the faintest hint of amusement. Somehow, that made him even more annoying.We descended a staircase I’d never seen before. It curved downward beneath the mansion, and the polished wood gradually gave way to stone walls. The air grew cooler,
MARKED Chapter 88
ELIZABETH’S POVI woke up before the sun had properly risen, not because I wanted to, but because I couldn’t seem to stay asleep. The mansion was unusually quiet in the early morning, as though even the walls were still recovering from everything that had happened the previous night. For a while, I simply lay there staring at the ceiling, unable to stop thinking about the red door. And, even worse, the version of me that had appeared in the hallway.I exhaled slowly and pushed myself upright. “Get it together,” I muttered, although the words did absolutely nothing to improve my mood.Getting ready felt almost automatic. I went through my usual routine of choosing clothes, fixing my hair and splashing cold water on my face, but my mind was somewhere else entirely. My thoughts kept drifting back to the prison, the map, the word BEGIN and the question that had been bothering me more than anything else.What if I was never supposed to be here?I paused in front of the mirror, studying my
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ELIZABETH’S POVThe lights came back seconds later, but the hallway was completely empty. The figure was gone, leaving no trace of its presence. There was no copy of me, no smiling monster and absolutely nothing that could explain what we’d just witnessed. The corridor stretched before us, silent and dark, and for a moment, nobody seemed willing to move.Then everyone sprang into action.Damon disappeared first, moving so quickly that I barely registered him leaving my side. One moment he was standing beside me, and the next he was nothing more than a black blur racing through the mansion. Lucien and Tristan immediately followed, while Adam cursed under his breath and grabbed a weapon from one of the display cabinets. Vanessa’s hands began glowing blue as she prepared her magic, and within seconds, the entire mansion had erupted into controlled chaos.For the next two hours, every room, hallway, hidden passage and possible entrance was searched. The guards joined in, but despite every
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ELIZABETH’S POVBEGIN.The word sat in the centre of the map, and for a moment, nobody in the library said anything. We simply stared at it, trying to understand what it meant. Eventually, Chloe blinked and looked around the table.“What exactly are we beginning?”“Hopefully not our deaths,” Lucien replied.“I’d like one week without a near-death experience.”“You’ve never had one week without a near-death experience,” Tristan pointed out.“That’s fair.”Normally, I would have smiled at their exchange. Lucien’s ridiculous comments usually helped ease the tension, but tonight I couldn’t bring myself to laugh. Something felt wrong, and I couldn’t explain why. The word on the map didn’t look like a warning. It felt more like the beginning of a countdown.Vanessa’s grandmother continued staring at the parchment, her expression noticeably paler than before. Damon seemed to notice it too.“You’ve seen this before,” he said.It wasn’t a question. The old witch slowly nodded.“Once.”Adam fol
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