All Chapters of Forbidden Love - Awakened Hearts: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I don’t remember very much about the life that I once lived before I met the man that I fell in love with. I have fragments of memory like it was told to me by a wandering future teller that I was to meet the love of my life that night, only if I went to the Le Glow Club, but I’d only meet him if I went there, as I went home that day. I found it hard to believe as I had always been overlooked my men in the past so I really didn’t think much of it but straighten up my bag and started to head towards the tube sky station somehow I still found my way to the Le Glow Club so I thought to myself I guess I’ve got nothing to lose except for a good telling off once I finally got home.However, my father always told me that a girl's only job was to marry a man, nothing more. Although not that he was really home for me from the little that I could remember of his was that my father was hardly every home. So I doubt I ever knew what he did for a job.I only had the faintest memories of my mother,

"You're real," he whispered, his markings pulsing rapidly with emotions I couldn't interpret. "They told me you were awake, but I thought—I feared it was another trick.""I'm real," I confirmed, my hands moving of their own accord to touch his face. His skin felt cool beneath my fingertips, smooth like polished stone but yielding like flesh. "I don't remember everything, but I remember you."Behind us, Lady Arinna and the attendants had entered the chamber. "My Prince," she said urgently, "we have little time. Lord Vexan's guards are searching for both of you."Costa's expression hardened, his arms tightening protectively around me. "Let them come. I will not be separated from her again.""If they find you together now, you will have no chance," Lady Arinna insisted. "The conservatives still control the Council. We need time to rally support among the moderate factions."I could feel Costa's reluctance in his body's tension, but I also sensed his royal training kicking in—the politica

"How do we—" I began, but Costa was already moving, pulling me toward a small control panel embedded in the wall."The emergency override," he explained, his fingers dancing across symbols I couldn't read. "If it hasn't changed in six hundred years..."The panel chimed, and a single transit pod detached from the main flow, gliding smoothly to stop before us. Its door slid open with a welcoming hum."Hurry," Costa urged, helping me inside. The pod's interior adjusted immediately to our presence, seats forming from what had looked like empty space moments before. The walls became transparent, offering a dizzying view of the transit network stretching out in all directions."Voidhaven, subsection seven," Costa commanded, and the pod lurched into motion with surprising gentleness.As we accelerated through the tunnel system, I watched the city blur past us through the transparent walls. New Nova had changed dramatically—the rigid separation between human and alien districts that I dimly r

"Enough!" he commanded, his voice cutting through the fountain's song. "Deploy the stasis field generators. We end this now, before they complete whatever abomination they've begun."The guards moved with practiced efficiency, pulling crystalline devices from their equipment packs. As they activated them, the air itself seemed to thicken, pressing against our water barrier with suffocating weight."Costa," I gasped, feeling the connection between us strain under the artificial pressure. "They're trying to force us back into dormancy."His grip on my hand tightened, and I felt his determination flood through our bond. "Not this time. Whatever we were meant to become, we finish it here."The pendant around my neck suddenly blazed with such intensity that it illuminated the entire courtyard. The stasis field generators sparked and overloaded, their harmonic whine cutting off abruptly. Lord Vexan stumbled backward, his own markings flickering with what I realised was genuine terror."Impo

As the binding reached its crescendo, a shockwave of energy pulsed outward from the fountain, racing through the streets of Voidhaven and beyond. I could sense it spreading throughout the city and the planet, touching every mind human, Novan, and hybrid alike. It was not controlling but revealing, showing each person the connections that had always existed beneath the artificial barriers.When the light finally faded, Costa and I stood hand in hand in the fountain's basin, transformed. The water had receded, leaving only a fine crystalline dust that clung to our skin like diamond frost.The courtyard had fallen completely silent. Lord Vexan had ceased his struggling, staring at us with an expression I couldn't quite name fear, yes, but also something like reluctant wonder."It is done," Lady Arinna said softly, releasing Lord Vexan's arm. "The binding is complete."I looked at Costa, seeing him truly for the first time with my transformed preceptive. It was as if something had broken