Todos os capítulos de Born Of The Last Breath: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 24

I rose– my hands fumbled, searching for something solid, some point of reference, but the world offered none. The pulse beneath my ribs was steady now, insistent, tethered not just to me, but to him, to life itself. Caelan. His essence reached across the void, faint, ragged, but there. Waiting, struggling. I felt him not in flesh, not in breath, but in the heartbeat of the Moon itself. He was alive—but trapped, testing, enduring. And I could not reach him yet. The silver veins beneath my skin flared brighter, tracing themselves like rivers over my arms, my chest, my throat. I felt the Moon in every pulse, every breath, every thought. I had anchored my Sovereignty. I understood now what my mother had meant. I understood that to act without this—without composure, without focus, without grasping the fullness of what had awakened in me—was to invite ruin. The Moon did not distinguish between foe or friend, predator or prey. It obeyed authority, discipline, and presence. I closed my

The door didn’t creak. In this house of stone and silence, everything felt engineered for survival, even the hinges. The room was smaller than the one I had occupied, lit only by a single tallow candle that struggled against the heavy gloom. The air here was different; thicker, charged with a static tension that made the fine hairs on my arms stand up. It smelled of ozone, crushed mint, and the metallic tang of a fever that wasn't quite biological. Caelan lay on a low cot, his frame seeming too large for the narrow space. I froze. The man who had kissed me in the cabin had been lean, battle-hardened, but still carried the softness of human exile. The man before me was… forged. Even in sleep, his muscles were corded like steel cables, his skin mapped with thin, silver-white lines; the ghost-scars of the Shadow Wolf’s claws. But it was the pulse that stopped my breath. My Sovereignty, now anchored and heavy in my chest, didn't just see him; it vibrated in resonance with him. He wa