Semua Bab A DEAL WITH THE ALPHA DEVIL: Bab 61 - Bab 70

Fiona's pov Branches slapped at my face as I ran, but I didn’t stop. Not when the trees are thick now and my lungs burned. Not even when I tripped over a root and slammed into the ground.I pushed up on shaking arms, snow sticking to my palms, breath ripping out of me in gasps.I could still feel it.Her lips on him, that kiss, that audacity.She looked straight at me when she did it. Mia knew I was there. She wanted me to watch. She wanted to break something and she had.“Stupid,” I whispered, standing slowly, fingers curling into fists. “So stupid…”For thinking he wouldn’t let her close again.For feeling something when he said I wasn’t invisible.I staggered forward again, deeper into the forest, directionless and furious. Trees stretched tall and bare around me, silence swallowing the path. Just me. Snow. And the ache in my chest that wouldn’t go away.“Fiona!”His voice cracked through the cold like lightning.I screamed.No, I couldn’t face him now.“Fiona, stop!”I ran.His f

Logan's pov “You don’t sleep much anymore,” I said as I stepped onto the frost-covered balcony.Fiona didn’t turn. Her breath misted in the night air. “Neither do you.”The wind blew her scent toward me and jasmine, steel, winter. Always winter now.“I thought you’d be in the war room.”“I was, but strategy doesn’t help when the enemy wants your soul, not your land.”I walked to her side, careful, like she might shatter or run. “You’re not alone, Fiona.”She turned finally, face pale in the moonlight. “Aren’t I?”“No.” I looked her dead in the eyes. “You never were.”Her gaze flickered, something softening but only for a second. “Then why does it feel like I’m always the one bleeding for us?”“That’s not true.”“Isn’t it?” she whispered. “You can fight Mia. I get it. I want her stopped too. But every time she touches you....”“She doesn’t touch me.”“She did.” Her voice cracked. “In front of me.”I swallowed hard. “That was strategy"“No,” she said firmly. “That was hesitation.”I di

“Fiona…”His name lingered in my chest like an echo I wasn’t ready to silence.The silence that followed his exit was louder than any scream. It throbbed in the air. It pounded in my ribs. The moment Logan vanished, something inside me cracked not broken like glass, not shattered like hope but split, like a bone that had to be set wrong before it healed right.He was gone and I was still here, Mia was watching me with that unreadable expression, one part triumph, one part something else… envy, maybe?“I expected tears,” she said after a moment, cocking her head like a curious predator. “Regret, maybe. You really surprised me, Fiona.”“I surprise myself,” I muttered, my voice hoarse. “But I’m not done yet.”She narrowed her eyes. “You're tethered to this realm. The door's closed. You sealed it yourself. So unless you're planning to grow wings or invent time travel, I think we're both done.”I took a slow breath. The runes across my skin pulsed with low light, rhythm steady like a hear

Fiona's pov “You brought the key,” the veiled woman said again, voice smooth as silk, but now it was laced with hunger.And something worse.Certainty.I stepped forward, every hair on my arms standing on end. The runes beneath my skin burned like living fire. They were responding to her, recognizing her as something ancient. Something dangerous.“I didn’t bring the key,” I said, trying to steady my breathing. “I am the key. But you already knew that, didn’t you?”Her smile was thin. Not amused, delighted. “Yes. That’s why you’re still alive.”Logan moved to my side, silent and fierce. Rowan flanked my other. For the first time, we stood united not as soldiers, not as rebels but as something closer to legend.“I sealed the realm,” I said, lifting my voice above the rising hum of the ley lines. “You shouldn’t be here.”“I shouldn’t have ever been caged,” she said sharply, eyes flaring black. “Do you think I didn’t leave pieces of myself scattered through every tether? Every story? Eve

Fiona's pov “Something’s wrong,” Kael said.He was crouched in the dead grass, gloved fingers brushing the edge of the circular stone embedded in the earth. The seal was so faded it barely looked like anything at all, just another forgotten mark worn down by wind and time.But I could feel it.I didn’t need to see the runes. I could feel them under my skin.I stepped closer, ignoring the sharp whisper of Logan’s warning behind me.“Careful,” he said, rising to his feet.I went to my knees in the dust beside Kael. The seal was smooth, unnaturally so, and ice-cold under my fingertips. A low vibration hummed through it, like a heartbeat buried miles deep.“This is it,” I whispered.“The tether?” Nira asked quietly, standing at Logan’s side.I nodded. “The twin of time. It’s underneath us.”Logan’s hand settled on my shoulder. “And what exactly does that mean?”I looked up at him.“It means the other half of the first realm. The one Mia corrupted. The one I sealed.” I swallowed. “That re