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Chapter 66: The Queen in the Bone Crown
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THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE Chapter 66: The Queen in the Bone Crown
I couldn't move.The palace stretched farther than my eyes could follow, its black marble floor polished enough to reflect the steady flicker of every torch burning along the high walls. White bones had been painstakingly worked into the architecture—weaving through the soaring pillars, framing the vaulted arches, and forming the massive throne beneath the woman watching me. None of it should have been familiar, yet my body recognized every inch of the space. My feet knew the exact path to the dais, my fingers curled around the ghost of a sword that wasn't there, and somewhere deep beneath my ribs, something whispered a name. Not mine. Hers.The woman rose from the throne. Bone scraped against bone as the crown shifted slightly on her brow, catching the firelight. She had my face, my mother’s pale eyes, and the other Seraphina’s sharp mouth, but her expression belonged to someone who had spent centuries ruling long enough to stop asking permission."Come closer," she said.I stay
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 68: The Voice Behind the Door
"I do."My other self's answer had barely cleared her lips before the blackness beyond the threshold rippled.Then come to me.The voice carried a soft, familiar cadence—the quiet edge Lyra used whenever she was terrified but refused to show it, the gentle weight in her tone when I used to be reckless as a child. My chest tightened until breathing felt like swallowing glass."Mother?" I whispered.Kael's fingers clamped around my forearm like an iron vise. "Don't.""That's her," I urged, pulling hard against his weight."No." His focus never drifted from the doorway. "It sounds like her.""What's the difference?""The woman you knew would've dragged herself back to you," Kael muttered, his jaw working as his grip tightened further. "This thing is sitting in the dark, waiting for you to walk right into its mouth."A pale hand emerged from the shadow, its long fingers catching the faint light, followed by another. A woman stepped into the open air of the chamber, and my knees
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 64: The Blood That Was Hidden
The floor split with the dry, tearing screech of stressed granite. I leapt backward as a jagged fissure raced across the chamber floor, stopping just short of the ancient, rune-carved archway behind Eryndor. Heat radiated from the glowing crimson fracture, stinging my face with the sharp, copper stench of molten iron.Between me and the girl who bore my face, the Crown Blade remained buried to its hilt in the dais. Neither of us reached for it.Eryndor stood in the red glow, his silver eyes unreadable as he watched us both."You said one of us wasn't supposed to survive," I said, forcing my breath to steady despite the thrumming adrenaline in my throat. "Explain.""Your mother never intended to leave two daughters behind," Eryndor replied quietly.My stomach turned. Beside me, my double took a half-step forward, her boots scraping over loose gravel. "Then why did she?""She didn't." Eryndor glanced down at the shuddering hilt of the Crown Blade. "Someone else altered the ritual.
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 63: Beneath the Sealed Door
The free fall felt endless, stone scraping violently against my shoulders while air rushed past my face in a deafening tear. Blindly reaching out into the dark, my hand found Kael’s forearm. His fingers locked around mine with bruising force.“Don't let go!”“I'm trying!”Before I could anchor us, an enormous weight slammed down from above—Vaelor. The dragon crashed down through the narrow shaft, folding his leathered wings tight around us an instant before we hit the bottom. The impact drove every drop of air from my lungs in a dull, sickening thud.For several breathlessness seconds, nothing existed except the high-pitched ringing in my ears and the stench of crushed stone. Beside me, a wet cough broke the dark.“Everyone alive?” Kael choked out.“I'm here,” Aster called from somewhere to my left.A groan echoed from the far corner—the other Seraphina. “Unfortunately.”A breathless laugh cut through my chest despite the horror of it all, but it died the second the metallic t
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 62: The Dragon Beneath the Veil
Thousands of massive bodies struck the subterranean rock in unison, a concussive shockwave that shuddered up through the soles of my boots and rattled the teeth in my skull. I couldn't move. The creature hovering above us defied the cavern's geometry; the stone didn't crush under its bulk, but seemed to yield, curving around six dark, translucent wings veined with a deep, pulsing crimson. Obsidian scales plated a massive skull crowned with backward-sweeping horns.When its gaze locked onto mine, the Dragon Mark on my skin thrashed with heat—an identical, answering burn. Beside me, my double—the other Seraphina—dug her fingers into my wrist until it bruised. "That's impossible," she breathed, her voice barely carrying over the ambient hum of ancient power.The dragon lowered its snout until a single, dinner-plate-sized crimson eye absorbed my entire field of vision."Children."The word wasn't a roar; it was a low, resonant rumble that set the dust shaking from the stalactites over
THE NIGHT MY MATE BURNED ME ALIVE CHAPTER 61: When the Dragons Returned
The first dragon didn't descend—it tore through the mountain like a dying star.The subterranean chamber groaned, the bedrock buckling under my boots as a sickening, low-frequency shockwave rattled through the stone floor. Clouds of ancient dust cascaded from the vaulted ceiling, blinding and choking the front ranks of the infantry. Red-armored soldiers stumbled, losing their balance in the haze, while even the translucent, writhing shapes of the Veil-creatures recoiled into the shadows.When the beast landed, its impact sheared directly into the vein of raw red crystal running through the center of the cavern.Plates of midnight-black scales armored its colossal frame, but beneath the heavy ridges, veins of liquid magma pulsed with a rhythmic, furious light. Plumes of acrid grey smoke billowed from its nostrils as it lowered its massive, crested skull until its snout nearly brushed the stone before the First Queen.The Queen lifted the Crown Blade, the ancient steel catching the
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