LOGIN"Lorenzo!"Lorrie’s scream tore through the dead silence of the forest as her husband’s blood-slicked fingers slipped from hers. She threw herself onto the cold, black moss, digging her knees into the earth as her knuckles turned stark white, holding onto his left wrist with every ounce of strength left in her breaking body.Below him, the open grave churned like a pit of living quicksand. Black soil and writhing shadows wrapped around Lorenzo’s boots, dragging him down into the subterranean darkness."Lorrie, let go!" Lorenzo roared, his dark eyes wide with an agonizing terror—not for his own life, but for hers. "The pit is pulling with divine weight! If you hold on, it will drag you and the baby down with me!""I am never letting you go!" Lorrie wept, her muscles quivering under the crushing gravitational pull. "We leave together, Lorenzo! We live together!""Think of our son!" he begged, his boots slipping deeper into the abyss. "You have to live for him!""No!" she screamed.Press
Lorrie couldn't breathe.The air in the subterranean vault felt like ice water in her lungs. She stared down at her newborn son, her arms trembling as she held him flush against her chest. His eyes were not the warm, chocolate brown she had prayed he would inherit from Lorenzo, nor were they the sparkling silver of her mother’s divine bloodline.They were black. Pure, hollow, pitch-black voids that swallowed the light around them.And the voice that had just emerged from his tiny, delicate lips was not the cry of an innocent infant. It was deep, metallic, and heavy with thousands of years of ancient hatred.«"Father... I finally found you."»Lorenzo stood frozen beside her, his blood-stained shirt clinging to his chest. Every muscle in his broad frame was locked tight, his face drained of all color."Lorrie..." he rasped, his voice barely audible over the roaring wind outside. "Step back."Lorrie instinctively tightened her arms around the swaddled bundle, taking a defensive step back
The subterranean chamber fell into an absolute, suffocating silence.The air was thick with the stench of ancient dust, ozone, and spent gunpowder, yet the sound that lingered in Lorrie’s ears made her blood run colder than any winter draft. The tiny newborn lay wrapped in white silk inside the arms of the creature wearing Bianca’s flesh. But the voice that had just emerged from those tiny, fragile lips was deep, metallic, and heavy with thousands of years of malice."Mother... kill them all."Lorrie’s heart hammered against her ribs like a trapped bird. She stared down at her son, her hands trembling as a cold sweat broke over her skin. "Lorenzo..." she whispered, her voice barely a thread in the silent vault. "Did you... did you hear that?"Lorenzo didn't answer immediately. His tall, blood-soaked frame was frozen, his dark eyes locked onto the baby with a mixture of profound terror and absolute disbelief. Slowly, his jaw tightened, and he nodded once. "Yes. I heard it."Across the
Lorrie couldn't breathe.The silence in the chamber was heavier than the falling stone, thick with the scent of ozone, ancient blood, and the sweet, terrible milk-warmth of a newborn child.Her mother stood motionless near the base of the floating throne, draped in white silk robes that hovered without a breeze. In her arms lay the tiny bundle—a delicate child wrapped in a glowing blanket, his tiny fists swatting aimlessly at the air, his soft, fragile whimpering echoing off the obsidian walls."Give him to me," Lorrie choked out, taking a single, agonizing step forward. Tears tracked through the grime and gold dust on her cheeks. "Please... Mom, give me my baby."Her mother did not flinch. Her silver eyes—once warm, once full of maternal comfort—had hardened into twin facets of cold, unyielding glass. "You are not ready, Lorrie. You carry the mark of the Sovereign, but your heart is still bound to mortal frailty.""I am his mother!" Lorrie shouted, her voice breaking into a desperate
"I don't have a son."The words left Lorrie's lips like fragile glass, shattering against the subterranean air of the vault.The young man standing before her didn't move. His tall frame was draped in dark, ancient armor, but his silver eyes held a depth of centuries-old grief that made Lorrie’s breath catch in her throat."Not in this lifetime, Mother," Alexander whispered, his voice trembling with a bittersweet warmth that cut straight through the roaring wind.Elena immediately stepped in front of Lorrie, her silver aura flaring around her hands like a defensive shield. "Stay away from her! I don't know who you are, but you will not take another step!"Alexander looked at Elena, his expression softening into a painful, sorrowful smile. "You really don't remember me, Elena? You used to hide behind my cloak whenever the dark realm's storms rattled the palace glass."Elena's stance wavered, her brow furrowing in confusion. "I don't know you.""You did once," he murmured softly. "Befor
"Massimo."The name tore from Lorrie’s throat like a bloodied rag, barely louder than a whisper, yet it cut straight through the thunderous hum of the collapsing chamber.At the threshold of the shattered vault stood the dead man himself. Massimo Dimitri—the ruthless architect of the family’s darkest secrets, the phantom who had haunted Lorenzo’s childhood nightmares—looked terrifyingly whole. Flanked by an honor guard of elite syndicate soldiers bearing the ancient silver crest of the Dimitri lineage, the old patriarch stepped over the fallen stone as if walking into a palace ballroom.His hair was a mane of immaculate, frosted silver, his tailored black suit uncreased despite the war waging around him. But it was his eyes that sent an icy shiver straight down Lorrie’s spine. They were no longer the calculated brown of a mob boss; they burned with a cold, ethereal silver light.Lorrie immediately shifted her body, placing herself directly between Massimo and Lorenzo, who lay bleeding







