All Chapters of Fated to Ruin the Luna - Crimson Moon Oath: Chapter 41 - Chapter 44

Kael’s POVThe first thing I felt was the smile. It sat on my face like a mask someone else had glued there, too wide, too calm and too wrong. My eyes snapped open to a silver glow that wasn’t mine and the hand resting on my cheek belonged to a woman who wore Lyra’s face but none of her fire. Doppel-Lyra’s thumb brushed my jaw, testing, claiming. Across the chamber, Lyra lunged, hybrid claws half-formed and silver-black fur rippling over her arms. She made it two steps before the Mirror Hunger inside her detonated. Silver veins locked her muscles; her vision fogged with reflected terror. She dropped to one knee, fighting for breath and fighting for me.I tried to say her name. What came out was layered, my voice braided with something colder, older and hungrier. “The Blade is mine to wield.”Lyra’s head jerked up. Recognition and horror warred in her eyes, not full possession but a fracture. I was still here, buried beneath the imprint, watching through a cracked pane of glass whil

Lyra’s POV.The silver hands dragged me into the abyss, and the Cinder Roads sealed above me like a tomb. Darkness swallowed everything, no light, no sound and just the crushing pressure of the mirror realm closing around my body.My lungs burned for air that wouldn’t come. My claws scraped uselessly against the liquid metal gripping my wrists, my ankles, and my throat. I screamed Kael’s name, but the sound never left my mouth. It was swallowed by the void.Then, breathe. It slammed back into me like a physical blow, cold and sharp and alive. My eyes snapped open to a cavern of endless silver, every surface a perfect mirror reflecting me back at myself a thousand times over.I pushed to my feet, hybrid claws scraping against the glassy floor. The air thrummed with a low, predatory pulse, the Mirror Hunger inside me coiling tighter, eager and hungry.My first thought was Kael. His name tore through my mind like a lifeline. Kael, the bond flickered, faint but there and a single thread o