Semua Bab Fated to my One Night Stand: Bab 161 - Bab 170

~Amber’s POV~“You know, I’ve always wanted to use the expression cat got your tongue, and this seems like the perfect moment. So.. cat got your tongue, Amber? Or really do you prefer Ambre? I mean, you did change your name to that for three whole years.”She laughed while I kept staring, absolute confusion tangled up with something colder underneath it, unable to process what had just happened in front of me.“I really should have brought my phone. The expression on your face would make the perfect picture to look at while I’m sitting on the throne, drinking wine.”She took a step toward me, and my brain, still lagging several seconds behind, sent my body stumbling back a matching step and something delighted flickered across her face. “I would drag this out just to keep that look on you, but let me put you out of your misery instead.”Another spell left her lips, and her body shifted again, face melting away, replaced almost instantly by the one that was the reason fit my shock an

~Amber’s POV~“Take one more step, and it’s the last thing you ever—”I didn’t wait to hear the rest of it.My hand was already moving before the thought fully formed, closing around the blade I had grabbed from my vanity drawer on instinct, turned in one motion, threw, and the rest of his sentence died in his throat, quite literally, the blade lodging itself exactly where I had aimed.To hell with not coming to terms with killing.The warrior dropped without another sound.“Jesus Christ, Amber.” Aria’s voice came out somewhere between horrified and stunned. “Where did you even get a blade?”“I grabbed more than the carrier.” I was already moving past the body, refusing to let myself linger on it. “Come on. They are this way.”I turned toward the cell where my father had been left, unconscious under whatever spell the witches had used to keep him under and when I reached it, it was empty.“No. No, no, no.” The words tumbled out of me before I could stop them, dread coiling fast and co

~Amber’s POV~Pain came first. All of it, everywhere at once, like my body had waited until this exact moment to send every signal it had been holding back through the crash.I was conscious. That much I could confirm. There was blood in my mouth, warm and metallic, and I coughed it out weakly, tasting more of it settle in behind. I tried to move, tried to push myself up, tried to reach for anything that would get me closer to Asher but my body simply refused, some deep, essential connection between thought and motion severed somewhere in the wreckage. I fought to stay conscious, fought against the dragging pull toward black that kept threatening to take me under, and I couldn’t even tell anymore if I was upside down or if the entire world had simply flipped itself over instead.Through the fight to hold onto consciousness, I felt my body being dragged.I wanted to scream. Nothing came out.Then I was being carried. Or maybe I wasn’t. Everything kept sliding in and out of focus, sou

~Axel’s POV~The pieces were falling into place, and even without the full picture, I understood enough of what I had already seen to know exactly how it had started but what I still didn’t have was the rest of it, the part that would let me fully understand why the same thing was happening to me now.Or why Aurelia and Amber shared the exact same face. Why they were, as far as I could tell, entirely the same person wearing two different names across two different times from what I could see. I had been so lost inside my own head trying to untangle it that I hadn’t even noticed I was standing alone.Everyone was gone. Kyran included, though he had been right there seconds ago, bowed to along with everyone else in that room. All that remained was a single door, and the longer I stood there, the more certain I became that I had to walk through it. So I did, without hesitating, and the second I crossed the threshold, dread slammed into me with a force I had no chance to brace against.I

~Axel's POV~My eyes snapped open.Disorientation hit first, sharp and total, light pouring through me, overwhelming, filling every part of me at once before something shoved it violently backward, forced it down and away, and in the space it left behind I felt it. The wrongness. More than I had ever felt it before, sitting inside my chest like something with claws of its own, patient and awake and aware.I looked around trying to grasp where I was and my eyes found them.Bodies. Everywhere I turned, bodies, sprawled across ground I didn't recognize in the dark, completely still and for the first time, I knew that I had done it.The full weight of it slammed into me all at once, not a suspicion anymore, not a fear I could argue myself out of, just fact, cold and absolute. Every single person scattered around me had died at my own hands, and I had no memory of a single second of it.'Focus, Axel.' Ash's voice cut through the horror before it could fully swallow me whole, urgent in a