LOGINBut 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
[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
He’d been studying diseases and cures — he must have researched the madness as well.If only he were here.I knew I couldn’t save Asher, but perhaps Raven could.If I could somehow get Asher to Raven.“I understand,” I said, meeting the celestial prince’s eyes. “I know you’re trying to protect me, b
My grip on her loosened, her words hitting me harder than the realization that she had already figured it out.Then again… I showed her every side of me, because even if no one else ever did, I wanted her to know—“Ugh!” she groaned, clutching her chest as her labored breaths became more irregular.
A few minutes later, the music faded.The prince lowered his flute, his gaze studying Xanthea as her body tensed up again, reverting to a half-conscious state.The prince stopped a few hands’ distance from us.Lowering himself to his knees, he shut his eyes tightly, his body stiff, as if straining t







