All Chapters of MATERD TO THE SON OF THE DEMON KING: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

TIMOTHEE’S POVMercy's scream tore through the room.I caught her before she could collapse completely, one arm around her shoulders while the other steadied her wrist."Mercy?."She wasn't hearing me.Her eyes were squeezed shut, her breathing coming too fast, and the mark on her wrist was spreading in thin black lines.I looked at Kaelen."What did you do?"His expression hardened."I didn't do anything.""Then fix it.""I can't."Something inside me snapped.I shoved Mercy gently behind me and moved toward him."You said she's awakening.""She is.""Then tell me what that means."Kaelen's eyes flicked toward Mercy."Not here.""You're not leaving.""I'm not trying to leave.""Then talk."He looked at me for a long second.Then his gaze dropped to my hand.I followed it.My fingers were shaking.Not from fear.From pain.A sharp pressure had started building behind my ribs.I grabbed my chest.Kaelen's expression changed immediately."Timothee.""I’m fine.""You’re not."The pressur

Kaelen's eyes narrowed."You don't have time.""We have plenty of time for you to stop talking in riddles."Another crash echoed through the palace.This one was louder.Aunt Raven's head snapped toward the door."They've breached the outer courtyard."My blood disappeared from my ears ringing loud like thunder testing my existence."Who?"She looked at me, “It’s not the who you normally think of.”I swallowed."What does that mean?"Her expression hardened. “That thing coming is not a normal delegation."Timothee's eyes flashed red."How many?""Unknown.""Guards?""Already moving.""Will they hold them?"Aunt Raven hesitated."Hold air? Hold monsters stronger than the moon itself? Hold who exactly?”That answer scared me more than anything else she'd said.Timothee reached for my hand and I let him take it.His fingers closed around mine.For one second, I could breathe.Then the mark on my wrist pulsed.Timothee's grip tightened."Mercy?" he called to me."I'm fine."The pulse came

She swallowed, her hood falling off her face completely to reveal a face that bore so many similarities to mine. Her nose upturned like mine with a pinkish tint at the highest bridge."Yes." She spoke clearly and calmly.The word shattered my insides.My knees buckled in shock, heading towards the floor fast.Aunt Raven caught my shoulder steadying me.I barely noticed.My mother.Alive and standing twenty feet away from me.After eighteen years of believing she was dead, now she stood before me, looking alive, looking perfect, looking like she had not aged a day over the photograph on her at home.I stared at her face.There were similarities I had never noticed because I'd never had anyone to compare myself to.The shape of her eyes.The curve of her mouth.Even the slight crease between her eyebrows when she was worried.My chest tightened."Why?"Her expression broke."Mercy...""Why did you leave me?"She took a step forward.Kaelen immediately moved between us."Don't."My mothe

Timothee's POVThe palace shook again.This time, I felt something beneath my feet.Not an earthquake.Something moving.Something waking."Mercy."She was still holding my hand.Her eyes were fixed on the crack spreading across the stone floor, her face pale.I could feel her fear through the bond.And beneath it, something else.A strange pull.Like the bond itself was being dragged toward whatever was underneath us.I tightened my grip."Don't let go."She looked at me."You're hurting.""I'm fine.""You always say that when you're not."Normally, I would have had an answer.I didn't.The king stepped forward."Separate them."Two guards moved immediately.I stepped in front of Mercy."Try."The guards stopped.My father stared at me."You have no idea what you've just done.""Then tell me.""I told you to separate from her.""No."His expression hardened."Timothee.""You've spent my entire life telling me what I should do without explaining why. I'm done."The king's eyes flicked

Mercy's POVThe first seal broke.I heard the sound before I understood it. It took my ears half a second to hear it, my brain half a minute to understand it, my feet on the other hand took four full minutes before it moved.A deep crack travelled through the palace, followed by a violent tremor that sent dust falling from the ceiling.Pillars shook, someone screamed in the corridor.Timothee grabbed my arm."Mercy, move!."I couldn't.My eyes were fixed on the opening in the floor.Something was writhing beneath us.It’s body looked heavy and slow, yet it exuded so much pressure that I felt sweat drip down my back.My mother rushed toward me. She stood in front of me, breaking the intense pressure on me."Mercy, come with me."My chest heaved upward in fear as I looked at her."Where?""Anywhere but here."The king's voice cut through the room."Nobody moves."My mother stopped, her darting back and forth between the hole and the King."He's awake."The king stared at the hole."I kn