Kael’s POVConsciousness slammed back into me like a storm breaking, fragmented, jagged, gold and silver light clashing in my vision. My body felt wrong, split down the middle.Half of me remained bound to the pyre, chains of mirror-light digging into my wrists and chest, holding me upright like a puppet. The other half stood on the ash below, facing Lyra with feral silver eyes that burned with a hunger I recognized too well.The bond between us throbbed like an open wound, pulsing with her shock, her fear and her love.Lyra stood there, bleeding from her side, her hybrid form flickering as she stared at the reflection of me. “Kael… please tell me it’s you,” she whispered, her voice cracking through the bond, a desperate plea that cut deeper than any blade.I tried to answer. To tell her I was here, fighting. But the words that came out were layered, my voice twisted with the Mirror Kael’s cold timbre. “You called me forth,” the reflection said, its smile widening. “The perfect Alpha.
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