The Devil's Broken Doll
Because the only thing that could calm him— the only thing that matched his flames— the only thing whose touch could ground him— was the one person whose existence should be impossible.
Adelaide.
Her fire had awakened. And so had something inside him. Something ancient. Something bound. Something that should have stayed dead. A forgotten verse of prophecy, written in a dead Queen’s blood, now beating in tandem with his own corrupted heart.
And now Hell itself trembled— because the Devil could no longer control what he had become. Far above the throne room, wards flickered, gates groaned on their hinges, and in the distant Emberborn refuge, marks burned brighter, every watcher turning their g