MasukI 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
So… the celestials know about the curse and the throne madness.The throne madness, huh?Right. That was the very reason the curse was created in the first place.I looked at Asher and all the instances of Alpha Deimos, the demon lords’ father, suffering from the madness flashed before my eyes.Moth
[Xanthea]What?What did he say?My pulse roared in my ears, drowning out all other sounds. Betrothed mate bond?Engaged when conceived?My fingers twitched against the cold grave marble beneath me, my nails scraping the fine cracks spider-webbing at its surface.My mother fixed my betrothal with t
[Xanthea]“These letters are enchanted and only the ones they are addressed to can unseal or open them,” the prince said.He paused.“They’ve been kept in Alpha Valdimir’s care since your mother’s death. All of them have been opened by their addressees… except yours.”“Alpha Valdimir gave me everyth
[Xanthea]A sharp pulse of pain zapped through my head, every nerve and blood vessel screaming in agony. My muscles spasmed, my bones felt as if they were melting as the life force was yanked from my body and poured into my tongue — fueling the spell with raw energy.My vision blurred for a moment,







