Todos os capítulos de THE ALPHA TWINS: Capítulo 171 - Capítulo 180

KIARA’S POVI couldn’t breathe.The man standing in the doorway had the Architect’s voice.The Architect’s eyes.The Architect’s presence.But his face…His face was mine.Not similar.Not familiar.Mine.The same silver eyes.The same shape of my nose.The same lips.The same silver hair.I stared at him while the baby in my arms began crying.The Architect smiled.“You finally see it.”I shook my head.“No.”The First Mother stepped in front of me.“You shouldn’t have come here.”The Architect’s smile widened.“You’ve been hiding from me for centuries.”“I was protecting them.”“You were delaying the inevitable.”His eyes moved toward the baby.“Give him to me.”I tightened my arms around the child.“Stay away from him.”The Architect laughed.“You still don’t understand what you’re holding.”“He’s a baby.”“No.”His expression hardened.“He is the first Destroyer.”The baby stopped crying.His silver eyes opened.The Architect stared at him.For the first time, his confidence disap

KIARA’S POVFor a moment, nobody moved.Kael stared at the black symbol on my back, his face drained of color, while Rowan stood surrounded by flickering silver flames.And the Architect was smiling.Not the smile of someone who had won a battle.It was the smile of someone who had been waiting for this exact moment.“What have you done to me?” I whispered.He tilted his head.“Nothing you didn’t allow.”I staggered backward.“No.”“You opened the Door, Kiara. You entered my world. You touched the first Destroyer, and you brought him back to yours.” His silver eyes glowed. “Every choice you made brought you here.”I shook my head, refusing to believe him.Rowan had chosen not to destroy him. That was supposed to matter. I had watched my son stand against the very power threatening to consume him.And now the Architect was telling me that Rowan’s choice had been exactly what he wanted.“Get away from her!” Kael roared.He lunged forward, but the moment he moved, a black line shot acros

KIARA’S POVThe Gate was closing.And for the first time in my life, I was terrified of what would happen if it closed completely.“KAEL!”He grabbed my waist as the ground beneath us began to split apart.Rowan was unconscious in my arms, his silver hair glowing faintly, while Ryder screamed somewhere behind Chloe.The fifth child stood at the other side of the collapsing Gate, staring at me with those familiar silver eyes.“Mom!” she cried.I reached for her.“Come back to me!”She shook her head.“I can't!”The woman standing behind her smiled.“Bring me my daughter.”The moment she spoke, the black mark on my back burned.I fell against Kael, gasping.He caught Rowan before he slipped from my arms and passed him to Chloe.“Take the boys!” he shouted.Chloe grabbed Rowan, while the silver-eyed man rushed toward Ryder.But the Gate was closing too quickly.A massive crack split the earth, separating us from the children.“KAEL!”He pulled me against him just as a wave of silver ener

KIARA’S POVFive pairs of silver eyes stared at us from the darkness.I couldn’t move.I couldn’t breathe.I could barely hear anything except Rowan’s frightened breathing against my chest.Then Ryder grabbed my hand.“Mom…”“I’ve got you.”My voice shook, but I forced myself to sound calm.“Stay behind me.”The fifth child moved beside us.“No.”I looked at her.“What?”She stared into the darkness.“Don’t look at their eyes.”“Why?”“Because they’re not looking at us.”A low growl echoed through the chamber.“They’re looking through us.”The lights suddenly flickered back on.And I saw them.Five figures stood at the opposite end of the room.They weren’t monsters.They weren’t creatures.They were children.Five children.The oldest looked about fifteen.The youngest couldn’t have been more than five.All of them had silver hair.All of them had silver eyes.And all of them had the same crescent mark.I tightened my hold around Ryder.“Who are they?”Rowan slowly stepped away from

KIARA’S POVThe first thing I noticed was the silence.Not the peaceful kind.The kind that comes after something terrible has stopped moving.Rowan stood in front of us, his silver eyes fixed on the shattered circle beneath his feet.The five ancient children were gone.The woman with my face was gone.But the shadow behind Rowan was still there.I could feel it.Not with my eyes.With my blood.The black mark on my back burned beneath my clothes, answering something deep beneath the floor.“Mom.”Rowan turned toward me.He looked like my son again.Not a vessel.Not a weapon.Just Rowan.But there was something different in his expression now.Recognition.As if he had remembered something he had spent his entire life trying to forget.I stepped toward him.“Are you okay?”He nodded slowly.Then he looked at the ground.“No.”My stomach tightened.“What do you remember?”Rowan swallowed.“I remember the Door.”Kael moved closer.“What Door?”Rowan looked at him.“The one before your