Mag-log inI clenched my fists, but didn’t allow myself to react.Slowly, I looked from him to Kyrell, still in full bow.“Get up,” I said.Kyrell lifted his head but not his eyes as he rose to his feet.I turned my back on them.“Your doubts are justified,” I said quietly. “I’ve spent years running from respo
He had hoped — just like me — that Deathless Death wouldn’t work.But it had.Because Asher made sure it would.That was why he oversaw every step of its creation.Back then, I thought he had an enemy he hated enough to build a weapon like this.I didn’t realize it was himself.I looked at Kyrell.“
[Raven]Draknor, Kyrell, and the others closed in, their attention fixed on Zxlorthon.“Classify everything that has happened in this room since the throne’s disappearance. Effective immediately,” Draknor said, his tone controlled.“Understood,” Kyrell replied. “But the elder council will demand an
But they couldn’t parry it all.My heart no longer pounded.It… slowed.For a moment.Then ripped itself apart, drowning every voice, including Zxlorthon’s warnings.Until only one voice remained.“Give back my brother!”“Return Asher to me!”The shadows writhed violently, hissing as they stopped sh
I frowned as my mind went completely blank.What happened next… was a jumbled chain of fragmented memories.I got up from the couch, opened the cabin’s door and strode out.The corridors swam past me, stretching and warping.Panicked staff. Military trying to pacify them. All blended together.Faces
The bunker wouldn’t hold.Ezra. Xanthea—“I need to get to them.”I didn’t realize I’d said it out loud.I got to my feet.Power surged beneath my skin as I reached to teleport—Cold metal snapped around my wrists.I froze, my power dying in my veins.Mana blocker cufflinks?“What the fuck do you th
‘Which includes me,’ I said.‘We’ll have only seconds to escape.’‘I know.’ Steadying my breath, I pulled away from Madness.I glanced at Azum and Yandor, standing a few steps behind him.In that brief window of seconds, I would have to escape with Xanthea and Azum.It wouldn’t be easy with celesti
He smiled, clicking his tongue.“I couldn’t come close to you, but you could call me. And you did.”My eyes widened. “I knew you’d call for Asher,” he murmured, voice dripping with satisfaction. “The moment you did, you gave his body indirect consent.”He leaned closer, his grin dark as he held my
But no. It wasn’t them.My emotions collided into a brutal war the second I realized it was me.That was when I knew I was fucked for a lifetime.“Fuck you, Xanthea…”Words trembled through my gritted teeth as my fingers cupped her face, sliding around her nape, as I crashed my lips against hers.Co
[Raven]Had Zxlorthon not calmed me, I don’t know what I would have done to myself, to her, to us.‘You would have done exactly what you did,’ Zxlorthon whispered. ‘You can wear yourself like poison all you want, but when it truly matters, you will always heal even if it hurts you, and that is why I







