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The Rejected Queen 107.
Rayna POV Damon’s hand was still on my shoulder when his eyes glazed for a second - the telltale flicker of the mind-link. I could feel the ripple through the bond, his tension coiled like a drawn bow."Lira. Now. Our chambers."The link snapped closed before she could even answer. I touched his wrist. “You shouldn’t sound that scared through the link. She’ll panic.”He gave a humorless snort. “Too late for that.”Moments later, the door burst open. Lira swept in like a storm in healer’s robes, her braid half undone and eyes burning bright. Her power always came with the smell of crushed herbs and metal - sharp and clean, like the promise of rain.“What happened?” she demanded, already at my side before Damon could answer.“I’m fine,” I started, but Lira shot me a glare sharp enough to peel paint.“Don’t even try that. You look like someone drained the sun out of you.” Her fingers hovered just above my skin, and light flickered between us - faint, green-gold tendrils of her magic sea
The Rejected Queen 106.
Rayna POVI woke to the sound of silence.Not the peaceful kind. The kind that hums beneath your skin, heavy and waiting, like the pause before thunder breaks.My eyelids felt weighted with sand. Every time I tried to move, something inside me pulled in the opposite direction - a thread, taut and cold, buried deep under my ribs.The world tilted when I breathed. Silver light flickered behind my eyes.“Easy.” Damon’s voice reached me first - low, rough, and far too steady for how his pulse thundered through the bond. “You’re safe.”Safe. That word again.I wanted to believe him. But beneath the soft sheets and the faint scent of cedar and smoke that clung to him, I could feel something else - the faint echo of the temple. The Goddess’s touch. The wrongness she’d burned into me to make things right.When I turned my head, the room blurred. The moonlight through the window rippled, shifting like it was made of water instead of air.And then I heard her.“You did well.”The voice wasn’t o
The Rejected Queen 105.
Damon POVRayna was cold in my arms. Too cold.Her body felt like marble, her skin kissed by frost. But her pulse - thank the Goddess - still beat, steady and strong, beneath my fingertips.I didn’t think. I just lifted her, holding her tight to my chest, and left the temple behind.The guards at the door straightened when they saw me, eyes wide, but I didn’t stop to explain. The air outside had changed - the night itself felt muted, thick, as if the world was holding its breath.The hum that had haunted the temple was gone. But so was every sound that followed it.No wind. No crickets. Not even the faint heartbeat of the city beyond the walls. Just silence - vast and heavy.Rayna stirred faintly, her head turning against my shoulder. Her eyelashes fluttered, silver catching in the moonlight. “Damon…”“I’ve got you.” My voice came out rough, strained. I didn’t care. “You’re safe now. I swear it.”Her eyes half-opened, distant, like she was listening to something only she could hear.T
The Rejected Queen 104.
Rayna POVThe last note of Nythera’s laughter still clung to the air - thin, sharp, like a needle through my spine - before it vanished.And then, for one heartbeat, there was peace.Then came the pull.Not the gentle tug of a dream or memory - this was a wrenching force, violent and deliberate. The world rippled around me.Damon’s voice broke through, raw and terrified. “Rayna, no! Stay with me. Rayna!”I tried to answer. But my voice didn’t make it past my lips.Everything around me distorted - the temple’s marble walls, the moonlit floor, the air itself bending as though it was made of water. His hands were on my shoulders, grounding me, shaking me, his voice echoing through the thick, drowning distance.“Rayna! Open your eyes. Don’t you dare-” I heard him. But it was fading. Like I was sinking.Light collapsed inward. The world folded. My body fell away. The silver void took me again.No gravity. No sound. Just the vast, endless shimmer. The space between worlds.But this time it
The Rejected Queen 103.
Rayna POVThe first thing I felt was cold. It clung to me like frost, sinking under my skin even though I was sweating. The temple floor was hard beneath me - smooth marble veined with silver light - and someone was shouting my name, voice sharp, frayed with panic.“Rayna- gods, stay with me-” Damon. I knew that voice before I even opened my eyes. The bond trembled, faint but alive, a thread I clung to as I dragged myself back from whatever abyss I’d fallen into.Light flared overhead. Not divine this time, but from the torches Kael must’ve lit. I blinked, gasping as faces swam into view: Damon, crouched beside me, his jaw tight; Kael and Lira behind him, both looking like they’d seen a ghost. Maybe they had.“What happened?” My voice was raw, broken glass and breath. “How long-”“Seconds,” Damon said quickly, but the muscle in his cheek jumped. “You collapsed as soon as you stepped through the arch. Then… everything went to hell.”He glanced toward the temple doors. The air still s
The Rejected Queen 102.
Rayna POVWhen I opened my eyes, there was no ceiling, no floor. Just light. Endless, rippling silver stretching in every direction like water under the moon. My body felt weightless, suspended between one breath and the next.My wolf was there before I even called for her. A shimmer of fur and gold eyes beside me, tail low, hackles raised.“Where are we?” I whispered.She tilted her head, nose twitching. “Not the mortal realm. Not her temple, either.” Her voice was uneasy. Like she didn't like this either. “We’re between.”A flicker passed through the air, and suddenly the light shifted - a pulse of warmth that pressed against my skin like sunlight through mist.And then the Moon Goddess appeared.She stepped out of the glow, her feet never touching the ground. Her eyes - that same endless silver - found mine, and I saw something there I had never seen before. Fear.“Rayna,” she said softly, her voice carrying like the sea. “You should not be here.”I dropped to one knee automatical
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