Alle Kapitel von Let Them Kneel: Kapitel 181 – Kapitel 190

Then the gold answered him. It seeped from the cracks in the air itself… drawn toward him like filings to a magnet. Thin rivers of stolen radiance poured into his wounds. Flesh knit. Bone realigned with faint, nauseating pops. Bruising faded beneath his skin as if time itself had reversed. By the

Draevyn watched her, something in his expression shifting—not surprise, not quite approval. A faint, almost pleased smile touched his mouth.“With pleasure.”He moved. So did she.They collided—not in flesh, but in shadow.Darkness tore free from every corner of the courtyard—from beneath pillars, from fractured ground, from the very air itself—surging toward them in violent currents that rose and twisted overhead, forming a dense, writhing canopy that swallowed the light whole.Their power struck at the same instant. Shadow met shadow in a brutal clash—tendrils slamming together, coiling, tearing, forcing against one another in a contest for dominance. The air screamed with the strain of it, pressure building as neither yielded.For a single suspended second, they held—then it broke.The force detonated outward, ripping the darkness apart and hurling them in opposite directions. They hit hard, driven across the ground as the shockwave tore through the courtyard.Draevyn recovered firs

Kaelani hit Draevyn in a blur of violet momentum, ripping him off his feet and slamming him onto his back hard enough to shatter stone beneath him.She didn’t pause.Her jaws snapped across his face—fast, precise—splitting his cheek open in a vicious line. Blood followed, dark and immediate.He snarled, but she was already gone—repositioning.She circled too fast to track, violet and shadow streaking around him in warping flashes. The shadows rose in answer, dragged into a spiraling current that twisted around them both and tightened into a vortex—darkness threaded with violet.A storm centered on him.Draevyn pushed up—Too slow.Claws raked him and vanished. Then again. And again—never in the same place twice, never where he expected, until he was forced back into the center of it, swallowed by his own element.The vortex tightened until there was nothing left but darkness—total, absolute.Draevyn reached for it, forcing his will into the shadow—But it didn’t answer.It ignored him.

The words landed heavy. Final. Until another voice cut through— “Yes… it can.” All eyes turned. Jace stood there— Covered in dirt and blood. Bruised. And completely naked. A sharp gasp cut through the courtyard. A few of the Unseelie averted their eyes immediately—others didn’t react fast

Life returning. Piece by piece. Jace dragged a hand over his face, relief hitting him like a punch to the gut. Lyressa’s hands remained over Julian’s heart a moment longer, the glow dimming as the work settled into him. Then she withdrew. “He will heal,” she said, her attention settling on Kael