LOGINShare
Chapter Twenty-Seven - A Promise of Never
publish date:
2025-12-10 00:00:26
Latest chapter
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 361 - Private Confession
(Adelaide)Saying what I want would change something. Her gaze didn’t waver. “Don’t what?” she pressed, the words quiet, but certain. His jaw tightened slightly, the hesitation brief but real, before it gave way. “Because I don’t want to lose you before we even get there,” he said. The words settled into the space between them with a weight that felt different from everything else—less reactive, less driven by the moment, and more like something that had been sitting beneath the surface long before any of this. Adelaide felt it. Felt the way it shifted something in her chest, something that had been forming since the tunnel, since the way he had looked at her, the way he had touched her, the way he had stood between her and everything that wanted to tear her apart. “You almost did,” she whispered. Not to blame. As a fact. “And it—” her voice caught briefly, her throat tightening before she forced the rest through. “It felt like something was being ripped out of me before
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 368 - My Queen
(Apollo)The throne room did not merely still; it seized beneath the force of his arrival. The air compressed, as if something vast had been forced into a space never meant to contain it. The impact of his landing cracked the stone floor, sending a sharp tremor through the pillars that framed the chamber. Conversations died mid-breath, not by command but by instinct, every soul in the room reacting at once to the pressure that rolled outward from him in heavy, suffocating waves. Each inhale became deliberate, each movement measured against survival. Generals turned, not in unison but in staggered recognition, their focus dragged toward the source of it as shadow and fire recoiled from the shape that now filled the space where their king should have stood. Malachar moved first, stepping forward with the reflex of command and loyalty, power already gathering around him in response to the intrusion— And then he saw him. Not the man who ruled the Dominion with measured control and de
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 359 - Nothing Else
(Adelaide) Time surrendered its shape somewhere between the second wound and the third, uncoiling itself with the slow inevitability of a serpent sloughing its ancient skin. Only the present endured, inescapable and pitiless. Time did not pass; it unravelled, each thread snapping in turn until nothing remained but the moment itself, drawn taut and merciless as the blade of a fallen angel. Adelaide no longer counted her actions in steps or choices, but in the relentless grind of movement and resistance, in the searing heat and the slow, savage labour of driving the Queenflame deeper than immortal flesh was meant to endure. The wound at his side was the worst, a gash so profound it demanded her hand vanish into him, swallowed by blood and torn sinew, the living heat clutching at her skin as if some infernal spirit refused to relinquish its claim. She pressed on, past the threshold where instinct shrieked for retreat, past the point where mercy would have faltered. Her breath had long
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 358 - What Fire is For
(Adelaide)“But I have fire.” Adelaide drew in a breath and held it for a moment, not to steady herself completely, but enough to keep from breaking apart under the weight of what she was about to do. “I’m going to try something,” she murmured, her eyes flicking briefly to Cael's face as if she expected him to argue, to stop her, to say anything at all. But he didn’t move. The brief clarity he had found was gone again, his body slack, his breathing still present but thinner now, slipping further from her with each passing second. Her throat tightened hard enough to hurt. She swallowed it down. Forced herself forward. Her hand returned to his chest, checking again, feeling for the rise and fall that was still there, still holding, still enough. “Okay,” she said softly, the word more for herself now than for him, her voice trembling but not breaking as she shifted back slightly, grounding herself in the narrow space, in the feel of stone beneath her knees, in the reali
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 357 - Below The Burrow
(Adelaide)The forest felt different now. Closer. The space between the trees tightened without anything actually moving, the air thickening as more of those watching points resolved in the distance. Adelaide forced her gaze away from them, scanning instead for something else, something useful, her eyes moving quickly over the uneven ground, the roots, the fractured stone. And then she saw it. A collapsed tree lay half-tilted against a rise of rock to her right, its hollowed trunk split open to reveal a dark, low opening beneath it, the earth carved away just enough to form a shallow burrow. It wasn’t much. But it was cover. Her decision came without hesitation. “We’re moving,” she said, already shifting closer, her arm sliding more firmly around him as she braced to take his weight. “Can you stand?” He let out a breath that might have been a laugh if it hadn’t been so thin. “Define… stand.” “Lean, then,” she replied, sharper now, urgency tightening every word as she p
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 256 - Time's Up
(Adelaide) Adelaide struck the earth with a force that rattled her bones, the shock of it surging up through her legs and into the fortress of her spine. Her wings snapped shut behind her, folding in with the last remnants of descent, the air itself still quivering with the memory of her fire. Heat clung to her skin, a second, possessive atmosphere, threads of warmth winding along her arms as if the flame itself refused to relinquish its claim. The scent of scorched ash and iron haunted the back of her throat. The forest, once a hostile adversary, now recoiled before her, drawing back just enough to permit her passage. Ash shifted beneath her boots in uneven drifts, whispering secrets to the ground with every step. Even the trees bent away, their blackened limbs arching like relics of some ancient, infernal order, bowing in reverence to a power they dared not touch. That deference pressed against her chest, a strange, holy unease settling beneath her ribs, as if the forest itself rec
The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 137 - Voice of the Mountain
(Apollo)He remembered the first time he had seen it. Not in battle or defiance, but in stillness. She stood at the heart of a ruined city, ash drifting around her like snow, the crown heavy on her brow and the weight of rule heavier still. Her hair burned red like living flame—not a metaphor, not
Last Updated : 2026-03-30The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 130 - Teach & Punish
(Adelaide & Caelum) The chamber felt different after Apollo left—emptier, yet somehow still too full. The air seemed uncertain, moving between holding his shape and forgetting it. Adelaide exhaled slowly, smoothing her palms over the leather on her thighs. The material creaked softly, warmed by h
Last Updated : 2026-03-29The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 128 - Warm Words
(Adelaide)The Dreamscape greeted her with cold. Not the cold of winter, but the clean chill of starlight on water. She stood barefoot at the edge of a black lake, its surface so still it looked like obsidian glass. The sky above was an endless dark dome, pricked with unfamiliar constellations. F
Last Updated : 2026-03-29The Devil's Broken Doll Chapter 132 - Leashes and Laws
(Adelaide & Caelum)Power burst through him like a sun exploding underwater—white-gold fire racing over his skin, searing through the leash spell at his wrist, burning Apollo’s mark into ash. The corridor brightened so sharply the shadows fled to the corners, recoiling like sinners from a shrine.
Last Updated : 2026-03-29
You may also like
One Night With My Alpha Ex
Eve Above Story55.3K viewsThe Gentle Dragon
Cooper53.9K viewsShamrocks & Seashells: The Quest for Lucky and Oceanna
Keisa Khaos27.3K viewsRevenge of the Celestial Sovereign
Banin SN33.1K viewsREGRET THE HUNGRY GOD
Ukay247400 viewsThe Dragon King's Forbidden Desire
Athena David 389 viewsHybrid Warrior - A Survivor's Story
Cyn Ariz209 viewsChosen in Dragonfire
Jane Above Story209 views
