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CHAPTER51- THE FRACTURED CROWN.

Penulis: Nathaniel
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Selena’s hand hovered just inches from the child’s fingers, the pull between them a tide of magic and memory so deep it felt like drowning. Her breath caught in her chest, as if inhaling might shatter the fragile stillness that held them suspended. She wasn’t afraid of the child—she was afraid of what touching it would confirm. That everything she had fought to become was only one echo in a chorus of fates she could not outrun. But her fingers moved anyway, drawn forward not by will—but inevitability.

The moment their skin touched, the chamber exploded into silence. Not the absence of sound—but the stripping of all things: breath, weight, thought. Selena blinked, and in place of stone and mirrors, she saw lives flash like stars—brief, burning, and gone. A soldier crowned in ruin. A child queen drowned in blood. A shadow that wore her face but none of her mercy. They passed through her, not as visions, but as truths.

When she landed, she was no longer in the Spiral. The world around he
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  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER77- THE LOCK THAT SPEAKS.

    Selena stared at the sigil, its words still seared behind her eyes. The lock must break. Not a plea. Not a warning. A command, spoken with the weight of something older than language. She could feel it now—the lock the Spiral had buried so deep even she had never glimpsed it before. It pulsed beneath her skin like a second heartbeat, coiled in the space between her soul and the Spiral’s core.Lucien approached, careful not to touch her. “Selena, talk to me. What does it mean—the lock?” His voice was steady, but she heard the hesitation, the quiet fear of knowing too much. She closed her eyes, searching within. There, beneath layers of flame and memory, was a sealed threshold. A boundary carved in truth and forged in sacrifice. “It’s something the Spiral was never supposed to open,” she whispered. “Something it bound with its last breath before the cycle began.”The others were summoned before the hour ended. Elias stood rigid at the edge of the altar while Maera, her face pale, examin

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER76- THE SIGIL OF COUNTDOWN.

    The sigil burned brighter as the last echo of the wardens faded into the horizon. Its light was no longer passive—it pulsed with intention, each flare sending ripples across the temple floor like silent bells tolling in reverse. Selena stumbled backward, clutching her chest as the Spiral inside her responded with a flicker of heat and dread. The mark hovered midair now, turning slowly, casting fractured reflections across every surface as if reality itself bent in reverence—or fear. A whisper threaded into her mind: Thirty days.Lucien moved to her side instantly, catching her elbow. "What is it doing?" he asked, though his own gaze was locked on the sigil’s rhythmic glow. Selena didn't answer at first. Her voice caught on a vision flashing behind her eyes—Lucien kneeling on scorched ground, his body broken, the skies bleeding red above him. Her breath hitched as the Spiral surged, not in anger, but in desperate defense. "It’s a countdown," she finally said, each word carved from the

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER75- THE FLAME BEYOND THE GATE.

    The world beyond the gate was neither sky nor earth—only a boundless expanse of shifting echoes and flickering memories, suspended like glass shards in a storm. Selena stepped through first, the Spiral flaring violently in her chest as her body fought to orient itself in a realm without gravity, light, or time. Her feet touched nothing and everything at once, and the only constant was the pressure of presence—an overwhelming awareness pressing against her soul. Lucien’s hand reached for hers, but a violent current of fragmented light tore through them, ripping his image into smoke. Selena screamed his name, but the sound dissolved into silence, eaten by the void.Shapes moved in the haze, not of beasts or men, but of selves—reflections of her from paths never walked. One stood cloaked in fire, her eyes black with grief; another wore a crown of bone, her expression void of empathy. Each version bore the Spiral, corrupted or refined, showing her what could have been had her choices twis

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER74- THE SHATTERED HORIZON.

    The wound in the sky widened, bleeding cold, silver light across the torn horizon. Selena staggered a step forward, shielding her eyes as the unnatural glow pulsed against her skin like fire and frost entwined. The wind screamed through the temple’s bones, carrying with it the mournful cry of something vast and imprisoned no longer. The air had changed—thicker now, as if laced with memory and despair, as though the world itself had stopped breathing. Behind her, Lucien’s fingers grazed her back, anchoring her to the moment while everything else threatened to unravel.The crystal in her hand flared sharply, reacting to the chaos beyond the temple's threshold. A vision—not her own—rushed into her mind, blinding in its clarity. She saw a circle of ancients cloaked in flame and shadow, standing around a chasm that pulsed with a living darkness. One by one, they lowered their weapons and pressed their hands to the earth, sealing something beneath with blood and sacrifice. Selena gasped as

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER73- THE GATEKEEPER BURDEN.

    The moment the Spiral flared again, sharp and urgent, Selena knew the calm was a fragile illusion. The temple’s walls, once steady and ancient, now pulsed faintly with a restless energy that whispered of something deeper and darker lurking beneath. Lucien’s grip tightened around her waist, his eyes scanning every shadow, every crack as if expecting the world itself to tear open. Selena’s breath caught—she could feel it, a presence moving through the earth, older than the gods, waiting patiently for her. This was no longer just a test of power, but a reckoning with forces she barely understood.Her merged Spiral throbbed against her ribs like a second heartbeat, pulsing with both strength and vulnerability. The twin’s essence that had once been her enemy now nestled quietly within, a fragile harmony forged from pain and survival. But harmony was a fragile thing, especially when the dark beneath the temple stirred like a beast waking from slumber. Selena’s eyes narrowed as the weight of

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER72- THE SECOND AWAKENING.

    The temple held its breath. The air, once thick with Spiral energy, now felt unnaturally thin—as though something vast had exhaled and left a void behind. Selena clung to Lucien, her legs trembling, but it wasn’t exhaustion that made her falter. It was the feeling beneath the stone, the subtle quake that wasn’t a sound but a sensation crawling up from the earth’s marrow. Her Spiral, whole and steady just moments before, now coiled with tension—not in pain, but in anticipation.Lucien sensed it too. He pulled back just enough to study her eyes, still glowing faintly. “Selena, talk to me,” he urged, voice tight. But her attention was far away, locked on the ground that had once offered light and healing. Now, it thrummed with something colder. Not hate. Not rage. Something far more terrifying—curiosity. As if the world beneath the world had turned its gaze upward for the first time in millennia.She stepped from his arms, slow and reluctant, like one walking into a storm they couldn’t s

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER71- THE DOOR BENEATH THE FLAME.

    The light faded slowly, leaving only the flicker of starlight overhead and the glow of the Spiral coiled within Selena’s chest. Lucien’s arms stayed tight around her, grounding her to this moment, but her mind had already slipped beyond the temple’s fractured floor. Her senses stretched, brushing against something buried far beneath the stone—something vast and slumberless. It wasn’t the Spiral. It wasn’t even a god.It was deeper.“I feel it,” Selena whispered, her fingers curling against Lucien’s tunic. Her voice was distant, like an echo pulled from a forgotten dream. “It’s not gone. The Spiral is calm, but something else… something older is moving.” She pulled away, standing unsteadily as her feet skimmed the cracked floor. The stillness of the temple had turned heavy, almost watchful, as if the walls were listening—and waiting.Lucien’s eyes swept the shadows, hand on the hilt of his blade. “Where is it coming from?” he asked. His voice tried for calm, but Selena heard the tensio

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER70- WHEN SILENCE SPEAKS.

    The temple had gone still—not with peace, but with tension so sharp it could slice through bone. The twin stood across from Selena, Spiral energy arcing in jagged breaths around her like a storm caged within skin. Selena’s heart thundered in her chest, but her limbs stayed steady, even as her Spiral flickered beneath her ribs like a candle facing the wind. They were no longer hurling power. No longer colliding like gods. Now, they watched each other, frozen in the thin breath between decision and destruction.Lucien leaned against a fractured column, blood trailing down his cheek, eyes never leaving Selena. He didn’t call out again—didn’t interrupt. He knew better. This wasn’t a fight he could end with a sword or with love. This was something ancient, primal, carved deep within the bones of the Spiral itself. A battle of identity, of memory. And it would demand more than light or flame. It would demand the truth. The whole truth.Selena's breath came ragged, her lungs pulling in the t

  • THE ALPHA'S LAST CHOICE    CHAPTER69- THE SPLIT WITHIN.

    The two Spirals pulsed in unrelenting opposition—one brilliant and deliberate, the other unstable, unraveling like a wound torn open too soon. Beneath Selena’s feet, the temple vibrated, as though the world itself were unsure which thread of fate to follow. Her Spiral burned golden, steady, forged from every choice she had bled for. But the other surged with chaos and memory, a twisted echo of her regrets. It wasn’t just a parasite. It was her.Lucien stood rigid beside her, his expression taut with fear and awe. He looked at both Spirals, but his gaze returned always to her, the real her, the one he believed in. “They’re both from you,” he said, voice quiet but heavy with knowing. “One you made. The other… you survived.” He stepped forward, but his hands trembled.Selena nodded, her throat dry as ash. “It’s the part of me I buried,” she murmured. “The guilt. The grief. The rage I never let out.” The second Spiral writhed behind the reflection that now emerged from its core—her twin,

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