The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
His pitch-black eyes slowly cleared, the amber returning to his pupils like molten gold as he stared down into the churning, black vortex opening directly beneath the wreckage.
"They aren't retreating, Lyra," Killian rasped, his voice dropping into a chest-vibrating growl that rattled the iron mast against my spine. He pressed his rigid, aching length hard against my hip—a raw, possessive promise of what he would do to me the moment the battlefield was clear. "The death of their commander didn't break their line. It triggered the final ward. They’ve awakened the Abyssal Patriarch."
Before I could answer, a massive, basalt-plated hand—easily the size of our flagship’s main deck—shattered the