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Carlota’s POVThe council arrived under a sky painted red, like fire bleeding into night. I walked between them, my hands trembling slightly, though I tried to hide it. Every eye in the hall burned into me like they could smell destiny clinging to my skin. They were all looking at me like predators that I almost didn't know what to do. I swallowed hard and kept my gaze forward, trying not to let them see how small I felt under all that weight.Gabriel stood on one side, like he was there to be a bodyguard. His golden eyes didn’t leave me, piercing through everything I tried to hide. Paxton stood on the other side. He looked the most unhappy to be there. He didn't even want to come in the first place. I'm very sure he came here because of me.I couldn't stop thinking about what he said earlier and how he wanted me to live. He promised he will do whatever it took, even if he had to fight against everyone. Should I say I'm touched by his sincerity, or should I just say he's stupid? I don

Carlota’s POVI woke gasping, the dream still clinging to me. Both of them had called my name. One voice soft, almost gentle. The other burning, raw, impossible to ignore. My mark tingled beneath my skin, pulsing in time with my heartbeat.Why was I having this kind of dream again? It feels like I was the one having different thoughts instead of them lately. I've been dreaming of things that were impossible, or maybe things that didn't happen. It feels like my body is becoming what I don't know.I looked for that mark again, and I surely wanted to rip it off my body. Should I just use something to cut it away, but is that going to stop anything? Even if I got it away, a mark that looked supernatural like this might even get bigger or even uglier.I just went out of bed and went into the bathroom to take a long shower to cool myself. After taking a shower, I went out to have breakfast. My mom was very busy preparing everything, and she looks very calm even though she knew that Dante wa

Gabriel’s POVI found it hard to sleep the entire night. I couldn't stop thinking about her, and I felt a lot of strange feelings of urgency as I tried to sleep. I thought it was just me being paranoid, and I didn't want to be apart from her. I never thought I would be so dependent on her that now I can't even sleep because of it.I finally got to sleep a few hours before dawn, but I wasn't able to sleep for long. I woke to my father’s voice; he sounded like it was urgent. Something was wrong. I opened my eyes to look at him. He wouldn't usually wake me up like this unless there's an emergency, and from his expression I could tell there's something he can't control.“What's going on this early in the morning?” I asked him.“Energy disturbances in the southern sector…” he said.I didn’t need to hear more. My heart slammed. It was her. I knew this was why I couldn't sleep yesterday. Something great was happening to her, and I was busy trying to sleep? This is the problem I put her in, t

Gabriel’s POVI drove her through the dark roads, the city lights shrinking behind us. The place was quiet, except for the hum of the engine and the occasional beating of my heart. She sat beside me, silent, fingers gripping her bag like it was a lifeline. I didn’t push her to speak.I already took her out of her home after I said she couldn't go anywhere. She was trusting me enough to take her somewhere safe, where she would not hurt anyone else, and now I was taking her somewhere I could think about.Every time I glanced at her, I couldn't help myself but think about how much we would be happy if all of this nonsense wasn't happening. She had so much power earlier today that I almost felt like I was going to die. Maybe the prophecy about her wasn't wrong, but it wasn't exactly right either. Since she knew about it, there was something she could change.The manor came into view, old stone rising from the hills, worn by centuries and shadowed by trees that reached toward the sky. My a

Gabriel’s POVI watched from the balcony, my hands gripping the railing until my knuckles burned. Below, Paxton and Carlota talked. Her actions looked like she was happy, and his posture was protective. Every instinct in me screamed to step down, to remind my stepbrother exactly whose she was.But then I saw a glow, faint at first, spreading over her skin near Paxton. It pulsed with her heartbeat. This made me understand what was going on, even though the both of them were not looking at it yet. The Awakening… it wasn’t just some legend. It fed on emotion. The stronger her feelings, the stronger her power.I swallowed hard, feeling something like panic crawl through me. I had trained for every battle, prepared for every rival, but this? This was different. Her power wasn’t just danger. It was alive, it responded. And it responded to Paxton.Because I could see how strong her power was, it meant that he had some feelings for him. I hated seeing that at all. Her powers were not glowing