All Chapters of Her Enemy, His Curse: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

Lucian:The mountain was still smoking.Every breath tasted like ash, every sound hollow, like the world itself had been struck deaf. I could feel Arielle shaking against me—her silver threads frayed to nothing, ghostly as smoke. My marks burned low, searing bone, too deep to heal.We’d sealed it. The abyss was gone. The captain—gone.But I couldn’t shake the truth gnawing at the edges of my skull. That void hadn’t died. It had only… recognized us.My fire guttered. Her threads flickered. And in that dying pulse between us, I felt it—something vast and watching, pressing against the cage we’d reforged.The hand that opens, the captain had called himself.Then what did that make us?I buried my face in Arielle’s hair, breathing her in, as if that would anchor me. Her voice was a whisper against my chest, thin as cobweb: “Lucian… what if it’s not over?”I didn’t answer. Because the truth was worse than silence.Arielle:I felt him tremble. Not from weakness. Lucian didn’t break that way

ArielleThe world ended in stone and fire.The mountain’s voice was a roar so loud it became silence, a crushing weight that swallowed air, light, thought. Lucian’s arms locked around me as the ceiling gave way. His fire surged, a shield of molten fury straining against the collapse, but even that was not enough to hold back a mountain.The bond screamed between us. Silver laced through his fire, anchoring, weaving, refusing to break. Every jagged stone that struck his flame reverberated down the tether, shuddering inside my chest, until I wasn’t sure if the pain was mine or his.And then—darkness.Not the abyss. Not yet. But the dark of stone sealing us in. Dust burned my throat, clawed at my lungs. I coughed, dragging in air thick with grit, and felt him still there—his chest heaving against mine, his fire flickering stubbornly in the suffocating dark.“Lucian.” My voice was ragged, swallowed by the silence after the collapse.“I’ve got you,” he said. His words were hoarse, but unsh

Arielle:The abyss moved like breath — slow, steady, inevitable.The silver inside me thrummed wild, raw edges sparking against Lucian’s fire as if my very blood wanted to recoil. But I held my ground. My knees trembled, lungs raw with dust, but I refused to step back. I refused to let it think I was afraid.Because I was. Terribly, helplessly afraid.The shadows slid closer, their tendrils like liquid smoke, dissolving stone as they touched it. I felt them tug at the threads between Lucian and me, plucking at them like a cruel hand testing for weakness. My magic shivered, frayed, but did not break.“Stay behind me,” Lucian said, voice a low growl.“No.” My answer came sharp, fierce, though my throat burned. “You don’t shield me. Not anymore. We fight it together.”His eyes flicked to mine, violet burning with both fury and fear. He wanted to argue, I could see it in the hard line of his jaw, but the bond hummed with truth. He knew I wouldn’t step aside.We had pulled each other out o

ArielleWhen morning came, it was cruel.The first shafts of dawn cut through the canopy above, scattering light over the moss, over the ashes smeared across Lucian’s chest, over my own fingers tangled in his shirt. For a breath, I didn’t move. I listened — to the steady drum of his heart beneath my cheek, to the faint rasp of his breath, to the silence of a forest that should have been alive with birdsong but wasn’t.Too still. Too quiet.I sat up slowly, wincing as the ache of exhaustion carved through me. The bond thrummed soft but steady, a tether I could feel deep in my bones. His fire, still laced with my silver, curled warmly against my soul. Not oppressive. Not consuming. Just there.But the weight of it was undeniable.Lucian stirred, violet eyes blinking open. For a moment, he looked at me not as a warrior or cursed thing, but as a man. Unguarded. And gods, the way that look unraveled me.“You didn’t rest,” he rasped, his voice rough with sleep and smoke.I shook my head, br

Arielle:The night air clung damp and sharp against my bare skin, but I didn’t shiver. Lucian’s heat lingered, making the forest feel like an extension of him. His violet eyes, his touch, left echoes I’d only just discovered. The bond thrummed beneath my ribs now, as if settling into a rhythm it always knew.Lucian’s arms tightened around me, careful and possessive, as if I might dissolve if he let go. He trembled beneath his usual strength, and for the first time, I saw not just the warrior or cursed heir, but the man beneath—fragile, desperate. And gods help me, I loved that he let me see him.“Do you regret it?” His voice rasped against my temple, rough and unsteady, fragile in a way that made me ache.I pulled back enough to meet his gaze, letting my silver flare gently in answer, brushing against the violet of his fire as though they were threads weaving us together anew. “No.”His brow furrowed. “Arielle, you don’t understand what this means. What I am. What I carry. You think t