Serena's POV **The three of us stood in the burning light of the compound that had tried to unmake us, and for the first time in fourteen years, I didn’t feel like a girl whose entire life had been a lie.**I felt like the beginning of whatever came next.And I was done being afraid of it.The heat from the fire licked at our backs, turning the night into a furnace of orange and chemical green. Ash fell like black snow, coating our hair, our skin, the torn remnants of our tactical gear. My lungs burned with every breath. The air tasted of melted metal, wolfsbane, and something older—something that had been sleeping in the earth for decades and had just been violently woken. The eastern compound was a roaring inferno now, flames climbing the stone walls, eating the vines, swallowing the rusted Blackwood crest. Every few seconds another explosion punched the sky, sending plumes of toxic green smoke into the dark.Dominic’s arms were still locked around us, one around Amelia, one around
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