THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA
“Let go, Damien. Accept what you have done. Anya will survive without you. You, you can’t go back to her. It’s too late.”
“Anya!” I screamed, my voice cracking as I reached desperately toward a world I could no longer touch. “Hold on! I’m coming back for you!”
The spirits watched in heavy, sorrowful silence. Anya’s grandmother hovered above me, her glowing eyes filled with final, irreversible judgment. “The curse fulfilled itself exactly as spoken. She ended you under the red moon. Your time with her is over. Stay here and face the weight of your sins.”
I collapsed, gasping, as the darkness pressed down heavier than mountains. My desperate pleas echoed unanswered through the endless void. Th