Fated Vengeance: A Mate's Reckoning
The bond flickered, Lucian’s presence fading, and I felt it—a crack, not in the tower, but in me, her sinking deeper, the mark spreading, cold tendrils wrapping my heart.
“No!” I roared, slashing the dagger at her projection, its light flaring, scattering her, but she reformed, closer, her hand grazing my cheek, ice-cold, burning. The core pulsed, the chamber shaking, and the floor *cracked*, glass splintering, revealing not stone but void, the same chaos I’d seen beyond the Veil, stars and shadows churning, reaching for me.
“You can’t destroy it,” she said, her voice soft, intimate, like a lover’s. “It’s you. Break the core, and you break yourself. Join me, and we’ll remake everything.”
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