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The thunder rolled in Thornhaven long before the storm touched its gates.Liam stood on the western balcony of the High Hall, the same one where he’d once watched Nova walk away from him with fire in her veins and secrets in her eyes. But now, it wasn’t Nova that kept his gaze locked on the horizon.It was the war that was coming.Not a war of lands or gold or pride.A war of bloodlines.And at the center of it was Cassia, his daughter, his miracle, his curse. The very embodiment of everything he and Nova never asked for, yet everything they would die to protect.He heard her footsteps before she reached him.Nova.She stepped beside him, not saying a word, just watching the clouds churn above the Vale.“She didn’t sleep much,” Nova finally said, her voice low.“Seryna?” Liam asked.“Cassia.”He nodded. “She feels it too, doesn’t she?”Nova’s jaw clenched. “She’s not a child anymore, Liam. We can’t protect her the way we did when she was in the crib.”Liam turned to her, eyes burning
My Father's Rival Is My Lover Chapter 77
The light from the pedestal still shimmered in Cassia’s eyes.Nova watched her daughter like a hawk, every breath, every flick of her fingers, every twitch in her brow. There was power humming around her, ancient and sentient, crawling into the marrow of their bones and whispering secrets in the air.But the voice they had just heard, it lingered.Her mother’s voice.After decades of silence, after betrayal and war and loss, it returned like a dagger wrapped in silk.Nova knelt before the pedestal. “What is this place really?”Kael’s voice came from the side, low and reverent. “This was the cradle of the split. The first flames were drawn here. The first betrayals too.”“I know,” Nova whispered. “Because that was her voice. Lady Maelora Ashford.”Elyra stiffened.“She never told you.”Nova’s jaw tensed. “Told me what?”Elyra looked at Cassia, then at the flickering flame on the pedestal.“That the woman who raised you wasn’t just your mother… she was the Mother of Flame. One of the th
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Liam stood beneath the blood-red sky, watching the sigil pulse above Thornhaven like a beating heart. It cast long shadows across the courtyard, twisting the familiar into something sinister. Around him, soldiers scrambled, mages lit flame wards, and Cassia’s cries echoed from her room.He didn’t flinch.Didn’t move.His mind was already racing.Third line…The words of the prophecy gnawed at him.The child of vengeance and ice.He clenched his fists. Whoever this was, she was threatening his family, his daughter.And Liam didn’t forgive threats.Ever.Nova stepped beside him, cloak billowing in the sharp wind. Her eyes locked onto the sigil with a look of haunted recognition.“You’ve seen this before,” he said.She nodded slowly. “In the archives beneath the Ashford estate. Only once. A forbidden scroll sealed behind fireglass.”He arched a brow. “And?”“It was a blood curse,” she murmured. “An ancient mark used by the exiled Flameborne who turned on the throne. They were cast out an
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The air in Thornhaven was heavier than Nova remembered.Not with dust or decay, but with memory. With truth.She walked the stone halls of the fortress alone, torches flickering in the sconces like they recognized her. Like they whispered, Welcome home, daughter of secrets.Her mother had lived.Had lied.Had died in silence to protect a truth that Nova was only now unraveling.“Verdance,” she whispered into the shadows, and the name felt like acid on her tongue.Her mother was one of them.She tried to breathe, to reason, but her heart felt caged in a box of thorns. The prophecy… her daughter… the truth…All of it was tangled.Elsewhere, Liam stood watch over the sea wall, eyes trained on the horizon.He didn’t like the calm.Not after what they’d learned.He wasn’t just protecting a child anymore. He was protecting a myth. One that both Flameborne and Verdance would kill to control, or destroy.Cassia was inside the Hall of Memory now, with Rhea and the girl from Verdance, whose nam
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The morning after the trials was strangely quiet.Not the kind of silence that comes with peace.But the kind that whispers something is coming.Liam sat at the edge of the stone balcony in their Paris safehouse, watching the golden sunrise wash over the city like spilled honey. Cassia slept curled in Nova’s arms, her breath steady, her lashes still fluttering from dreams soaked in flame and prophecy.He should have felt triumphant.Instead, he felt… watched.“You’re up early,” Nova’s voice murmured behind him.He didn’t turn. “Couldn’t sleep.”Nova stepped beside him, her silk robe catching the breeze. “Neither could I.”They stood in silence for a while, the wind rustling the quiet between them.“She did it,” Nova finally whispered. “She passed the trials.”Liam turned to look at her. “She did more than that. She changed them.”Nova’s lips twitched. “And now they’ll come for her.”Liam’s jaw flexed.“They already have.”An hour later, they received the message.A silver dove.Not ma
My Father's Rival Is My Lover Chapter 73
The wind at the top of the Eiffel Tower didn’t howl. It whispered.Like the voices of thousands of Flameborne ancestors, watching the girl with silent judgment.Cassia stood alone on the glowing sigil drawn across the floor, her hair rippling in the wind like ink across silk. She didn’t flinch when the first challenger stepped forward, a woman with skin the color of frost and eyes like burning stars.“Name yourself,” Nova called from the edge.“I am Seraphine the Tempest,” the woman replied. “Sentinel of Ice, Guardian of Silence.”Cassia’s tiny fingers curled.“I’m Cassia,” she replied, voice strong. “I’m six. I like peanut butter. And I’m not afraid of you.”Laughter echoed around the platform, mostly mocking, mostly male.Seraphine raised her hands, and the air turned bitterly cold.Nova stepped forward. “She’s a child! This is a death sentence.”Dorian stood unblinking. “This is legacy.”Liam had to hold Nova back with one arm while keeping the other hand clenched over the golden s
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Rome wasn’t supposed to burn again.Not like this.But Liam stood at the top of the ancient colonnade near his family’s estate, watching smoke ripple over the distant city lights.Flames didn’t rise from buildings.They rose from people.It started after Solara’s fall, when the Ashford mansion, once a silent fortress of wealth and secrets, became a beacon.A signal.Now they were being watched.Not just by allies, but by enemies who had waited in the shadows for too long.“You’re quiet tonight,” Nova said softly behind him, walking barefoot across the rooftop.Liam turned, offering her the coffee he hadn’t yet sipped.She took it with a smile but didn’t drink either.“She’s still glowing,” Nova said.“Cassia?”She nodded.“She hasn’t slept. Just… sits and watches the moon.”“Like she’s waiting for something,” Liam murmured.“Or someone.”Nova bit her lip, eyes tracing the horizon.“You think they’re coming?” she asked.Liam didn’t answer right away.Then he said, “They already are.”T
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It wasn’t the wind that woke Nova.It wasn’t even the distant howl of Rome’s night or the uneasy stillness that had wrapped the Ashford estate like a funeral shroud.It was Cassia.The little girl stood in her crib, her amber eyes wide, glowing like they held a sun behind them.“She’s here.”That’s all Cassia said.And the moment those two words passed her lips, the flame sconces lining the hallway outside their bunker guttered, and died.Every flame in the house went out.Except for one.Nova’s heart pounded as she turned toward the entrance.Kael was already there, his eyes glowing faintly. “Stay here. Protect her.”Nova handed Cassia to Liam, her voice firm but quiet. “Don’t leave this room. No matter what happens.”“I should go with you,” Liam started.But Nova shook her head. “Not this time.”She stepped through the heavy door, sealing it behind her.The corridor was lit only by the flickering gold of the protective sigils.The silence was thick.Then… a footstep.Not hurried.No
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The nightmares started on a Tuesday.Cassia woke screaming, red light flickering in her irises.Not fire.Something deeper.Liam rushed to her crib, Nova close behind, but Cassia’s eyes had already gone back to normal. She cooed and reached for her mother, utterly calm.Like nothing had happened.Like the world hadn’t just tilted under them.Nova wrapped Cassia in her arms, but her gaze flicked to Liam.“You saw that, right?”He nodded. “I saw it.”They didn’t say the word aloud, but both were thinking it.Power.The days that followed felt like waiting for lightning to strike.Adelaide had disappeared after the Moscow assault.Tatiana returned to her underground contacts, trying to trace the remaining embers of the Eastern Bloc.And Liam?He barely slept.He watched Cassia more closely. Watched Nova even more.Because Nova was changing too.Fiercer.Sharper.Like her fire was preparing for something it couldn’t name yet.And Liam, he worried. Not just for her safety. But for what the
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