جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 200

The voice faded, but the room remained unnaturally still.Zara stared at the pool. The water had gone completely quiet again, as though nothing had happened.Kael hadn't moved. His hand was still wrapped around hers, his thumb pressed against her knuckles."Did you hear that?" Zara asked."Yes." His answer came too quickly.She looked at him. "You know that voice."Kael's jaw tightened. "I've heard it before.""Where?"He didn't answer."Kael." She called out. He rubbed a hand over his face, looking more frustrated with himself than anything else. "I don't know."Zara frowned. "You just said you've heard it before.""I have. I just don't remember where."She studied him for a moment. Something about his expression bothered her.He wasn't hiding something from her, maybe he genuinely didn't know or at least, he believed he didn't.Zara turned back to the pool. "What did we promise to forget?""I don't know.""That's becoming a very irritating answer."A faint smile touched his mouth.

What the Curse WantsThe laughter beneath them faded slowly. Zara stood still, staring at the floor. She could feel something moving beneath the stone like the presence of someone awake.She looked at Kael. "You said the curse wants you."He didn't answer immediately, his gaze remained fixed on the floor."Kael." She called out to him His eyes were still fixed on the floor. "I don't know."She frowned. "You literally just said it.""I know what I said.""Then explain it."He finally looked at her, his face had lost all its color. "The curse has been inside me for years. Every time it got worse, I thought it was trying to destroy me.""And now?""Now I'm wondering if that's not what it wants." He swallowed.Zara folded her arms. "What else would it want?"Kael shook his head. "Something to use.""Use you for what?" She asked, her face had gone pale by now. Everything seemed to be confusing."I don't know."She sighed. "You're doing it again.""Doing what?" "Giving me half an answer

: The Six GuardiansZara read the words again, she was almost hoping they'd change but hey didn't.THE SIX WERE NEVER HER MATES.THEY WERE HER GUARDIANS.She stared at the wall then at Kael. "That doesn't make sense."Kael was still looking at the inscription. "No.""Those six men were my mates.""That's what you were told." He nodded. Zara's eyebrows pulled together. "I felt the bonds.""So did they." He said, his eyes still fixed on the words. "Then how could they have been pretending?"Kael turned toward her. "I'm not saying they were.""Then what are you saying?"He hesitated. "I'm saying maybe the bond wasn't what we thought it was."Zara gave a humorless laugh. "That's supposed to make me feel better?""No." He smiled. "Good." She turned back toward the inscription. For years, she'd tried to understand why every bond had ended the same way. Six men, six rejections and six disappearances.She'd spent so much time wondering what was wrong with her that she had never considered

: The one behind herThe whisper came from directly behind Zara.“Finally.”Every muscle in her body locked. She turned slowly, but there was nothing there, just darkness. The chamber seemed to have changed while they were looking at Kieran. The walls had grown darker, the faint silver markings disappearing one by one until the only light left came from the strange symbols carved around the pillars.Kael stepped in front of Zara. “Stay behind me.”She almost laughed, though there was nothing funny about the situation. “You really need to stop saying that.”His head turned slightly. “Zara.”“I’m not standing behind you while something that apparently knows my name is standing somewhere in this room.”Kieran gripped the bars of his prison. “He’s not in the room.”Kael looked toward him. “Then where is he?”Kieran swallowed. “Everywhere.”The answer settled over them like cold water. Zara looked around again. “What does that mean?”Kieran shook his head. “I don't know. We were brought

The symbols continued spreading across the floor, silver light surrounded Zara. Darkness gathered beneath Kael making the six guardians instinctively moved backward.Kieran grabbed Damon's shoulder and pulled him away from the circle. “Don't step inside.”Kael didn't move. He stared at the black crescent beneath his feet. “What happens if I do?”Marcus shook his head. “You don't want to know.”Kael's expression hardened. “We've already reached the point where pretending ignorance is protecting anyone.”Before Marcus could answer, the chamber disappeared. Zara felt herself falling but she didn't fall alone. Kael's hand found hers.The guardians vanished while the stone walls vanished too. Everything vanished in less than seconds. They landed beneath a white tree.Zara recognized it immediately, the same tree from the memories except that there were no children but two adults. A woman stood beneath the branches. Zara's ancestor.Beside her stood the first Lycan King, he looked young