Se connecterBut 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
[Raven]‘He’s here.’ My breath stalled at Nesryn’s mind-link, my step faltering as I froze in the middle of the cabin.It was almost midnight.The restlessness in my chest detonated without warning, drowning out even the thunder of my heart.‘From the energy fluctuations around the Parliament palac
“Because this was…” I held his gaze, a chill running down my spine. “…my alpha’s command.”The words felt like shards of glass on my tongue and like a soothing ointment in my chest.I had never called Asher alpha. I had always been openly disrespectful to him in front of the pack.Now, for the first
‘Tell no one of my fall. Go to my Alpha cabin. Sit on my chair. Call only Draknor. He’ll understand that I had succumbed to Madness. He’ll know what to do next.’Asher used to repeat that to me and Ezra.At the strangest times.And we just… ignored it.Never realizing — those were the days he fought
He gritted out, then gave a dry, hollow laugh.‘For you, my mate bond was always just another tool. And my mate, just another pawn.’‘No. You and Xanthea… you’re the only real bonds I’ve ever had. So no, Icifer. Your mate bond isn’t a tool and Xanthea definitely isn’t a pawn.’ I said firmly. ‘I agre
[Asher]The thing I had avoided my entire life finally happened: Icifer’s desires had reached the Throne.“The weapon Cadence mentioned in Alpha Caelum’s letter,” Yandor’s voice shook a little. “The weapon that’s powerful enough to bring down heaven. The one that must be obliterated. Could it be a d
“Ugh! Ah!” Asher vomited blood, clenching his chest with his trembling hands.“Asher!” I involuntarily took a few frantic steps towards him.An icy shudder crawled down my spine as my steps halted abruptly.‘Don’t!’The foreign voice in my head rang so loud it made my ears throb.“Xanthea… please…”
[Asher]The next second, the throne shadows rained down all around me, erupting into their obsidian alpha forms as they crashed on the ground.Shadow Icifer walked back to the throne, commanding the shadow alphas as they closed in on me from all directions.I gathered every last bit of my power and







