ANMELDENKiara’s POVThe temple began collapsing around us.Stone crashed from the ceiling.Silver crystals shattered against the floor.Dust filled the air, making it difficult to see.But I could still see him.The Architect.He stood in the center of the ancient temple as if the destruction happening around him meant nothing.His black eyes remained fixed on my children.Rowan.Ryder.Then me.“The four,” he whispered.Kael stepped in front of us.“You’re not touching them.”The Architect smiled.“You still think this is about taking them?”Kael’s claws extended.“What else could it be?”The Architect slowly looked at him.“You were always your father’s greatest mistake.”Kael froze.“What did you say?”“You heard me.”The creature stepped forward.Kael immediately attacked.His claws sliced through the Architect’s chest.But there was no blood.The Architect simply disappeared.Kael spun around.Nothing.Then a whisper came from behind him.“You have your father’s blood.”Kael turned.The
Kiara’s POVChloe’s scream tore through the temple.Her body remained suspended above the altar, surrounded by silver light.The symbol on her chest burned brighter.“Get her down!” I shouted.Kael moved immediately.He rushed toward the altar, but the moment he stepped onto the first circle, an invisible force threw him backward.He crashed against one of the stone pillars.“Kael!”I ran toward him.“I’m fine.”He pushed himself up, but his eyes remained fixed on Chloe.“Don’t touch the altar.”Chloe screamed again.“Please!”I couldn’t stand there and watch.I placed Ryder into Kael’s arms.“Hold him.”“Kiara—”“I have to help her.”Kael grabbed my wrist.“You don’t know what that thing will do to you.”“I know.”I pulled free.“But I can’t leave her there.”I stepped toward the altar.The moment my foot entered the first circle, the symbol on my chest ignited.Silver light rushed over my body.The room disappeared.I was standing in the same chamber.But it was different.New.Aliv
Kiara’s POVThe ground moved beneath my feet.Not shook.Moved.Like something enormous had rolled over in its sleep beneath the mountain.I grabbed Kael’s arm before I could fall, my heart hammering against my ribs.“Kael…”“I know.”His voice was low.Too calm.The kind of calm that meant he was terrified.Around us, the dead warriors remained on their knees.Dozens of them.Maybe hundreds.Their heads were bowed toward Rowan.Toward my son.Rowan stood in the middle of them, his silver eyes glowing brighter than I had ever seen them.Ryder was pressed against my chest.His tiny fingers were tangled in my dress.The black circle on his palm pulsed.Once.Twice.Then again.And every time it pulsed, the mountain answered.Boom.Boom.Boom.I looked down at the ground.A thin silver crack had appeared beneath my feet.“Get everyone away from here!” Kael ordered.The pack immediately began moving.“Where?” one of the warriors shouted. “The border is surrounded!”“Then we make a path.”
Kiara’s POVThe words refused to leave my mind.The Gate isn’t trying to come into your world.It wants you to go into theirs.I stared at Seraphine.For once, she wasn’t smiling.There was no satisfaction in her eyes.No mockery.Only something that looked dangerously close to fear.“What is on the other side?” Kael asked.Seraphine’s eyes moved toward the Gate.“I don’t know everything.”Kael laughed bitterly.“You expect us to believe that?”“I expect you to listen.”The Gate pulsed behind her.Black.Silver.Alive.Ryder whimpered against my chest.I looked down at him.The black circle on his palm was glowing again.It had spread farther up his wrist.My stomach twisted.I grabbed his hand.“Why is it doing that?”Seraphine looked at it.“Because the Gate knows where its lock is.”I tightened my grip around Ryder.“He’s my son.”“And he’s also the lock.”“No.”The answer came from Rowan.Everyone turned.He was standing beside Kael, his silver eyes fixed on his brother.“He’s not
Kiara’s POV“Ryder!”The moment I saw my son through the opening, everything else disappeared.The screaming.The broken walls.Kael.Chloe.Even the creature wearing Kael’s father’s face.There was only Ryder.My baby was sitting on the other side of the Gate.His tiny golden eyes were fixed on me.And the woman holding him…Looked exactly like my sister.“Give me my son!”I stepped toward the opening.Kael grabbed my waist.“Kiara, don’t!”“That’s Ryder!”“I know!”“Then let me go!”“The Gate wants you to cross!”I struggled against him.“He’s my child!”“And that’s exactly why they’re using him!”I stopped.Kael was right.But knowing that didn’t make it easier.Ryder stretched his little arms toward me.“Mommy…”My heart shattered.“I’m coming, baby.”Kael tightened his grip.“No.”I turned toward him.“I have to.”“Not like this.”The woman holding Ryder smiled.“He’s afraid.”My eyes narrowed.“Put him down.”She ignored me.Instead, she kissed Ryder’s forehead.Then she looked
Kiara’s POVThe walls exploded.I screamed and pulled Rowan against my chest as pieces of stone crashed around us.Kael threw himself over us.Dust filled the room.For several seconds, I couldn’t see anything.Then silence.Terrifying silence.I slowly opened my eyes.“Kael?”“I’m here.”He lifted his head.Blood trickled down the side of his face.“Are you hurt?”“No.”I looked down at Rowan.He was still in my arms.But he wasn’t crying.He was staring at the hole in the wall.His silver eyes were glowing.“Rowan?”He pointed.“He’s coming.”My heart pounded.“Who?”He didn’t answer.Then Chloe spoke.“Your father.”Kael turned toward her.“My father is dead.”Chloe shook her head.“That’s what everyone was supposed to believe.”Kael stood.“You knew?”“No.”Her voice trembled.“I only remembered pieces.”“Then tell me what you remember.”Chloe looked at me.“Your father wasn’t trying to open the Gate.”Kael frowned.“What?”“He was trying to create something that could live beyond
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