All Chapters of His Dark Covenant: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

“My daughter.” Lucian's words hung in the laboratory. Elena couldn't move. Adrian couldn't either. Then Lucian looked directly at him. “Get away from her.” Adrian's jaw tightened. “Why?” Lucian's eyes were filled with something Elena had never seen there before. Fear. Not fear for himself. Fear of what Adrian might become. “Because the blood records are lying.” Elena's breath caught. “You just said—” “I said the records are correct.” Lucian stepped farther into the room. “That doesn't mean they tell the truth.” Eva smiled. “Still protecting the secret.” Lucian ignored her. “Elena, listen to me carefully.” She stared at him. “You're my daughter.” Her voice was barely audible. “Then who is Adrian?” Lucian looked at him. “The most dangerous lie ever created by the Covenant.” The Bloodline Trap Adrian stepped forward. “You've got thirty seconds to explain.” Lucian studied him. “You're not my son.” “I know.” “You're not Ele

The man on the screen smiled.Adrian stopped breathing.For the first time since Elena had known him, his composure completely disappeared.“Gabriel.”The name left his mouth like a wound.Elena looked at him.“That's your father?”Adrian didn't answer.On the monitor, Gabriel Vale stood inside a command center somewhere above them. He was older than Adrian by decades, broad-shouldered, silver-haired, and dressed in the dark uniform of the Covenant.His expression was calm.Too calm.Then Gabriel looked directly into the camera.“Adrian.”Adrian stepped closer.The screen flickered.Gabriel smiled.“You finally remember me.”Adrian's hands curled into fists.“I never forgot you.”Gabriel's smile widened.“No.”His eyes shifted toward Elena.“You forgot what I made you.”The Man Behind the ArchitectMara moved toward the console.“I can trace the transmission.”“Do it.”Her fingers moved rapidly.Elena watched Adrian.He hadn't taken his eyes from Gabriel.“What did he do to you?”Adri

Seraphine smiled with someone else’s eyes.Elena knew immediately that the woman standing before them was not entirely herself.Those eyes were wrong.Too pale.Too still.Too empty.Adrian stepped in front of Elena.“Get out of her.”Seraphine tilted her head.“Still protecting her.”“That isn't Seraphine.”A faint smile touched her lips.“No.”Her voice changed.For a moment, two voices spoke at once.“I am what remains of her.”Mara's voice came through the intercom.“Elena, don't let her touch you.”Seraphine looked toward the speaker.“Mara.”The smile widened.“You've become troublesome.”Mara answered:“So have you.”Seraphine raised one hand.Every light in the chamber exploded.Darkness swallowed them.Then Elena heard Adrian grunt.“Adrian!”“I'm here.”Something moved behind her.She turned.A hand grabbed her wrist.She reacted instinctively and drove her elbow backward.The grip disappeared.A second later, emergency lights activated.Seraphine stood exactly where she'd b

The tower spoke Elena's name.Not through speakers.Not through a machine.It spoke from inside her mind.“Elena.”She froze.Adrian immediately grabbed her hand.“Don't listen.”The voice came again.“Elena Cross.”The ground beneath them trembled.Mara stared at the tower.“It's responding to her.”Evelyn's face had gone pale.“Not responding.”She swallowed.“Recognizing.”Elena looked at her.“Recognizing me as what?”Evelyn didn't answer.The tower doors opened wider.Darkness waited beyond them.Then a second voice emerged.This one was a woman's.Soft.Almost affectionate.“Come home, little Architect.”Elena's stomach dropped.Adrian stepped in front of her.“She isn't going anywhere.”The voice laughed.“You still believe you can protect her.”Adrian's eyes hardened.“I know I can.”“Then enter.”Silence.“And prove it.”---The First ArgumentElena pulled Adrian aside.“We have to go in.”“No.”She stared at him.“You heard it.”“I heard enough.”“That thing knows me.”“Exac

Darkness.Not the ordinary kind.This darkness had weight.Elena couldn't feel the floor beneath her.She couldn't feel Adrian's hand anymore.She couldn't hear Mara.For one terrifying moment, she wondered if they'd already failed.Then—“Elena.”Adrian.His voice sounded distant.She reached toward it.“Adrian!”Nothing.Then Mara's voice.“Don't move.”Elena froze.“Where are you?”“I don't know.”A faint glow appeared ahead.Three points of light.One blue.One white.One gold.They moved toward one another.When they touched, the darkness disappeared.Elena opened her eyes.She was standing inside a vast corridor made entirely of memories.Hundreds of doors stretched into infinity.Behind each one, she could hear voices.Children laughing.Scientists arguing.People crying.Machines humming.Adrian appeared beside her.Mara appeared on the other side.Elena grabbed Adrian's hand.“You're here.”He nodded.“For now.”Mara looked around.“This isn't the Sovereign's main system.”Ad