All Chapters of Sinful Desires: Fatal bonds: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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CHAPTER 100—His true name

The impact had not been gentle at all. Zero lay where he had fallen, his body half turned against fractured stone, breath shallow but steady. Dust still drifted through the air around him, his ribs should have been broken from the impact, but oddly.. he seemed fine. The ground beneath him had caved slightly from the force that struck him down, a shallow crater marking the place where everything had shifted. Above him whilst his eye still closed, the sky stretched wide and distant, colorless in its stillness. The world outside continued as if nothing had happened. But within him, everything had. Darkness came first. It was vast and quiet. A place without edges or time. And he was not alone. Zero stood there, though he had no memory of rising. His body felt whole, untouched by injury, untouched by weight. He looked down at his hands slowly, turning them as if expecting to find something different. There was nothing. Just him. Or so he thought. A presence stirre

CHAPTER 101— Separation

Mattheus Jade Fallow. Not Zero. Not anymore. But the reintegration did not erase what Zero had felt. If anything, it amplified everything. The truth hit me with a force that made my chest ache physically, a deep bruise that would not fade any time soon. Zero had loved them. Both of them. Aldric with his steady presence and unspoken devotion. Seraphiel with his sharp edges and hidden warmth. And they had sealed me. Divided me. Reduced me to a fragment and not because they were afraid. Because they wanted to contain and possess, the prophecy demanded something neither of them had been willing to risk... if they hadn't forcefully sealed him.. something far more terrible than Aldric currently realises would happen. I understood the truth now. They had not acted out of malice. They had acted out of desperation. And that made it worse. Malice could be hated. Desperation could only be understood. And understanding hurt more than anything else. My mind threatened to drown in the weight

CHAPTER 102—New world horror (2)

The silence after the ambush did not last. I barely had time to catch my breath before I heard footsteps approaching the cave. Not the careful steps of someone hunting. The heavy, desperate strides of someone running for their life. Aldric tensed beside me, his hand moving to the blade he had sheathed only moments ago. I held up my hand, signaling him to wait. The footsteps grew louder. Then a figure stumbled through the cave entrance. It was Balham, the tallest of the three strangers who had brought me here. His human form was barely holding together. Blood poured from a gash across his ribs, and his left arm hung at an unnatural angle. One of his eyes had swollen shut, but the other blazed with that same golden light I had seen earlier. He collapsed to his knees in front of us. "Balham," I said, moving toward him. "What happened?" He waved me off with his good hand, gasping for air. "They sent more. Many more. We were betrayed. Someone informed the sects that two Yao fra

CHAPTER 103— New world horror (3)

I pulled the jade pendant from around my neck and held it between my palms. The information came not as words on a surface but as a flood directly into my mind. Images. Sensations. Knowledge that unfolded like a flower opening its petals too fast, too wide, threatening to overwhelm me. Aldric touched my shoulder, and somehow his presence helped anchor me. The jade recognized him too, or perhaps it recognized that we were connected, and it poured its contents into both of us at once. I learned the name of this world, though it was not important yet. What mattered was what this world was. A realm where humans cultivated spiritual energy through breathing methods, body refinement, and Qi. Most humans were weak. The strong stood at the top like gods, capable of erasing cities with a single thought. With the humans were the divine beasts, descendants of primordial creatures tied to concepts. Storms. Decay. Moonlight. Oceans. Destruction. Their bloodlines were awakened, ancient, and p

CHAPTER 104— New world horrors (4)

The cave held us in its narrow darkness while the third pulse faded. Aldric's hand remained locked with mine, his fingers cold but still holding. We waited. The jade had told us about the freeze. It had told us about the thaw that would follow. But knowledge and experience were two different things. The jade's information was clinical, detached, the words of someone who had studied this forest from a distance. It had not prepared me for the way my lungs burned when the cold finally began to retreat. The change came slowly at first. A lessening of pressure. A softening of the frost that coated the cave walls. I felt it in my bones before I saw it, the ancient heart's grip loosening as the pulse passed. Then the thaw arrived like a weapon. The temperature did not rise gradually. It exploded upward, a violent rush of warmth that slammed into the frozen cave like a physical force. Every surface that had been crystallized moments before began to crack. The frost on the walls t

CHAPTER 105— New world horror (5)

I did not know how much time we had until the next freeze. The jade had told me the ancient heart beat once every few hours, but few was not a number I could trust. It could mean two hours. It could mean three. It could mean the next pulse was already building beneath our feet while I sat here holding Aldric's head in my lap. His breathing had grown fainter. Each exhale was shallower than the last, and the blood from his wounds had not stopped. The shards of rock were still embedded in his flesh, too deep for me to remove without causing more damage. But the blood loss alone would kill him if I did nothing. The wounds themselves would fester. His divine beast constitution was strong, but even a divine beast could bleed out on cold stone. I needed food. Not for me. For him. The jade had shown me that divine beasts could accelerate healing if they had sufficient energy, and energy came from consuming things rich in spiritual essence. The forest, for all its dangers, contained frui

CHAPTER 106: Hopeless

The ground trembled beneath us. That deep vibration, that slow and terrible heartbeat, traveled up through the stone and into my bones. The ancient heart was preparing to beat again. The next freeze was coming. I looked at Aldric. His wolf form was still healing, the wounds on his flank no longer bleeding but not yet closed. The fruit had given him enough strength to speak, to growl, to press his paw against my hand, comfortingly, But he definitely was not strong enough to tide the next thaw. And I could not walk. The purple veins from the Bark Viper bite had spread across my entire left leg and up into my torso. My hip was a map of dark branching lines. My stomach had turned cold where the venom pooled. The tourniquet above my knee had slowed the poison but not stopped it. Every breath sent a new wave of burning through my veins. I had maybe an hour before the venom reached my heart. Maybe less. The next freeze would come long before that hour was up. We were going to die in th

CHAPTER 107— Dying

We waited for death.The cold should have come. The ancient heart should have beaten again, sending its pulse of absolute freeze through the forest, through the cave, through our already broken bodies. Aldric lay beside me, his massive wolf form barely breathing, his fur matted with frozen blood. I lay curled against his side, the venom spreading through my veins, the purple branches of poison crawling ever closer to my heart.We waited.One minute passed. Then five. Then ten.The cold did not come.I lifted my head from Aldric's fur, my neck stiff and aching. The cave walls were still frozen from the previous pulse, frost clinging to every surface. But the air itself had stopped dropping. The ground had stopped trembling. The ancient heart had gone quiet."We are still alive," I whispered. The words felt strange in my mouth, like a language I had forgotten how to speak.Aldric's ear twitched. His eye cracked open, gold and hazy. He looked at me, and I saw the same confusion in his ga

CHAPTER 108— Medicine farm

Seraphiel woke to darkness and the smell of earth. Not the clean earth of a forest floor after rain. This was damp, suffocating, thick with decay and something sweetly rotten. It filled his lungs like water, and he choked on it, his body convulsing against whatever surface held him. He was not bound. That was the first thing he noticed. His wrists were free, his ankles unshackled. But he could not move. His limbs felt heavy, rooted, as if something had grown through his muscles while he slept. Panic surged through him. He forced his eyes open. The darkness did not lift. It pressed against his face, warm and wet. Soil. He was buried in soil. Only his face remained exposed, and even that was crusted with dirt. He spat it from his lips, blinked it from his lashes, and tried to remember. The portal. Jade falling backward into the light. His hand around Jade's wrist, the separation. Then the strangers had closed in, and the light had swallowed everything. After that, nothing. Serap

CHAPTER 109— Verge of death

The darkness behind my eyes was not empty. It was full of frost and venom, two rivers of poison flowing through my veins, converging at my heart. There was pain, and even more pain, my body jerked violently, I was probably foaming at the mouth. The cold from the ancient heart's freeze. The heat from the Bark Viper's bite. Together, they were making a new kind of death.I welcomed it.Not because I wanted to die. Because I was tired. So tired. My body had been scraped and bitten and frozen and poisoned. My heart had been broken by betrayal and then broken again by Aldric's sacrifice. There was nothing left to hold onto. The jade pendant had gone cold against my chest. The forest had gone silent. Even the ancient heart had stopped its terrible beating.Let me go, I thought. Just let me go.But something was pulling on my arm. Dragging me across the ground. The sensation was distant, as if it was happening to someone else's body. I tried to open my eyes, but my lids were frozen shut. Fro

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