Lahat ng Kabanata ng Elixir: Fated To The Three Alpha : Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 74

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