บททั้งหมดของ Elixir: Fated To The Three Alpha : บทที่ 71 - บทที่ 80

Elixir’s POVTheir silence said everythingThe next morning none of the Alphas spoke of the dream I knew we all hadWe sat by the fire with stale bread and bitter water and no one looked each other in the eye I felt the void between us stretching like a wound we couldn’t bandageI’d dreamed of their deaths againOnly this time I didn’t scream when I wokeI didn’t need toThe screams had already settled in my chestEwen broke the silence first “They’ll come back today”Lucian nodded once “They’re not done They want her marked”Soren added nothing but I saw the faint glow beneath his wrist—his bond mark still there faint barely alive like mine“I’m not going to them,” I said even though the truth itched behind my teethBecause part of me wanted toNot because I believed themBut because I wanted to believe I wasn’t wrong to feel what I felt“You don’t have to go to them,” Soren said quietly “They’ll bring the choice to you”He was rightThey didn’t need to pull me into the veil againTh

Lucian’s POVShe didn’t look back when she left the fireElixir had walked into the trees like the night belonged to her like it would bend before her or break if it didn’tAnd I let her goBecause I was afraid I wouldn’t recognize the girl who came backThe severing didn’t break cleanEveryone said the bond had been cut but they didn’t feel what I feltIt wasn’t goneIt was frayedA thread snagged between ribs tugging when she hurt pulsing when she doubted echoing in me even as I pretended to stand wholeSoren had grown quiet since her dream woke the camp two nights agoHe was trying to hide the way it haunted him but I knew that look too wellHe was reliving itJust like I wasIn her dream I’d killed himIn mineI watched her dieAnd did nothingEwen claimed he was fine said the severance helped him see clearly but I’d seen the way he kept rubbing his chest as if his own heartbeat had gone cold and unfamiliarWe weren’t okayNone of us wereThe Order of the Unmade hadn’t just crept

Elixir’s POVThe moment I stepped into the circle of the Order’s magic, the world fell away.No sound. No light. No breath.Just memory—so ancient, it didn’t belong to me.And yet it fit like a second skin.I stood in a vision of a temple long forgotten. Golden spires reached into a sky that bled fire and stars. There were no wolves here. No humans. Only beings of light and shadow arguing before a throne carved into the bones of time.At the center of them sat a woman.Not a goddess.Not yet.She had my eyes.“She was the prototype,” a voice whispered beside me.The cloaked figure from the Order stood with me now, but his presence was faint like a shadow projected through centuries.“She was not born. She was built. Her soul carved from divine flame, her flesh molded from prophecy. The Moon Goddess didn’t create her. We did.”I turned, horror blooming in my chest.“You’re saying I’m her?”“No,” he said softly. “You are her second attempt.”The air fractured.Images struck like lightni

Elixir’s POVEvery instinct said to run but I stepped forwardThe creature didn’t attack It simply waited as if expecting a command a signal a word I hadn’t yet rememberedLucian’s voice roared behind me “Don’t engage it Elixir”But I had already movedSomething about the way it mirrored my breath the way its eyes glowed gold and black made me certain This wasn’t a beast It was a messageNot one meant for allOnly for meIts mouth moved again but this time the words didn’t reach the air They entered straight into my mind and twisted like smoke around my thoughtsYou are unfinishedFind the flameBurn or be forgottenAnd then it vanished into the riftGoneLeaving only silenceAnd fearI turned to the alphas shaken but not broken “I need to leave”Lucian blinked “What?”“Alone” I addedSoren stepped forward “That’s not happening”“I saw something,” I said “A place—no a temple made of stone and shadow buried beneath what they call the Ashen Teeth It’s hidden from both wolves and men Tha

Elixir’s POVI didn’t breathe when she smiledAsh-Elixir tilted her head in that same way I’d caught myself doing before a lie left my mouth She walked with my gait paused like I did when I was trying to listen to more than soundShe wasn’t pretending to be meShe was meIf I’d brokenLucian growled low beside me but didn’t step forward Soren moved closer like he meant to shield me but I raised a hand“Don’t”They frozeBecause they could feel it tooShe wasn’t here to fightNot yetShe moved closer a shadow wrapped in flesh but somehow more solid than the wind I whispered to“You touched the flame” she said nodding to my hand where the golden fire danced along my skin like a serpent “But it hasn’t touched you yet Not really”I clenched my fists “What do you want”“To help you” she said simply “Before it consumes you the way it did me”“I’m not you”“Not yet”Her voice wasn’t cruelIt was worseIt was pityingBehind me I felt the bond fray and hum the three threads of connection pulle