Nyxara POVThere are moments when fear makes you run, moments when it makes you fight, and then there are moments when fear becomes something far worse because the thing you are afraid of is not standing across from you with a weapon in its hand.It is inside you.“RUN.”The word tears from my throat as another violent wave of power crashes through me, my wings spreading instinctively behind me while the room trembles beneath the force of magic I have spent centuries controlling, containing, burying so deeply that sometimes I can almost convince myself it belongs to me.It does not.Not all of it.And Rowan, the stubborn, infuriating bastard, does exactly what I know he is going to do.He steps toward me.“Did you hear a fucking word I said?”“Yes.”“Then get away from me!”“No.”Of course.Of fucking course.My hands tighten against my chest as another pulse tears through me, and somewhere beyond my own thoughts I can feel the thing that has slept quietly for centuries pressing again
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