Hermit Edens Zero Novels & Stories

Hearing the door close, I pulled up my phone and glanced at the notification log. He had called me about fifty-six times today. But something else caught my attention. An anonymous message read, “Today what happened stays here. Nobody can ever know about it. Otherwise, your friends will be in trouble. LL” The initials corresponded to Lenard Lee, the Master. I long-clicked on the message to delete it. Immediately, it was gone from my phone, but not my fear.

I clicked on Dana's message to reply. To Dana: I already noticed you so don't be mad :) She immediately reacted angrily to my message so I just laughed. To Anna: They say people who judge so much in others' life die easily? Don't worry, I will visit you at your grave! I have another thought to say so I messaged her again. To Anna: Btw, satan is on his way there! He just called me earlier, congrats! To Erika: Don't act like innocent, I know you're better than me... that's what your exes say. Be careful, don't leave the house because there are giant d!ck waiting for you :)

Once everything was in order, I gathered every gift Jasper had ever given me and burned them all. Under cover of darkness, I took my son in my arms and boarded the next flight out of the country. The following day, the banquet hall was full of guests who were here for the celebration, but there was no sign of me anywhere. Jasper called my phone over and over again, but every call went straight to voicemail. Panic crept in. Something felt very wrong. He raced home but found nothing on the nightstand but a single note. 'The Gamma homeworld has summoned me back to my planet. I'm taking the kid and ditching the dad. Don't miss me. Don't wait up.'

A small circle of red sand remained, where Harkan and a few dozen wolves were huddled together, praying to gods who were nothing more than sub-routines. "I can't let them die, Rowan!" I cried. I felt a surge of the old power—not magic, but the raw, unrefined energy of the **Zero**. I looked at the "X" on my wrist. It was glowing so brightly it was blinding. "Kaima, what are you doing?" Rowan asked, his voice full of dread. "If I'm a window, then I can be a door," I said. I didn't try to fight the gray grid. I reached for the red "Close Button" on my wrist. I didn't press it to end my life. I pressed it to **Minimize** the world.

It won't budge. Eden held a blade with a black handle in her left hand and thrust it southwards, in a counterclockwise motion, until she closed the circle with ca crackling fire. I couldn't escape if I wanted to. “Oh, Great Goddess Lyssa, Daughter of the Noble Nyx…" she recited a spell, her brown eyes turning black. "Aide me in my journey for immortality and prosperity." Amelia, London, and Slyvia reached above their heads, joining Eden around the circle, chanting along.

“You’re the Healer.” I met his stare evenly. “I’m Zenith.” He studied me another beat, then inclined his head. “ Let me re-introduce myself again, formarly, now. Eldric Moreu. I knew your grandmother’s grandmother. She once threatened to turn my spine into a binding circle.” “Did she?” I asked. “Yes,” he said calmly. “It was educational.” Seraphine rose and dusted her hands. “Show us what Inferno showed you.” I swallowed and stepped into the basin.

The Ridge was reacting to the storm. The Hermit’s Trial From the shadows of a higher cave, an old man emerged. He was dressed in furs and held a staff tipped with a glowing Vance-Global sensor. This was the Hermit of the Ridge, a former lead scientist from the Ark who had chosen exile over the "Consensus." "The Ridge demands a sacrifice to settle the static," the Hermit croaked, his eyes milky with cataracts. "The indigo is hungry. One of you stays to ground the charge, or the ledge collapses and the boy goes with it."

She hadn't explained what it tracked only that it was connected to Eleanor's darkest secret and that secret, Eden had said would revolutionize everything. I knelt and opened the case. A sleek black gadget pulsed with soft green light. It had a signal crawling slowly along an empty topographical map. I touched the screen, zooming in. "What is that?" Melissa asked coming to stand with me. "It's going north into Zone Zero." Melissa gasped "Zone Zero? That's just supposed to be an urban legend" I looked at her "Everything's been a legend, until it wasn't" Zone Zero was where Project Elysium was purported to have begun and a closed facility hidden deep in a mountain, abandoned for generations sin

The following morning, Ethan woke before his alarm. He had just finished dressing when his phone chimed on the nightstand with a sharp, double vibration. He picked it up to find a message from Harper. Attached was an encrypted P*F titled PRELIMINARY CONTRACT — HORIZON CONTINGENCY NETWORK. Ethan sat on the edge of the bed, his heart doing an uncharacteristic flutter as he opened the file. There it was—his name printed in bold dark font, the legal terms of the retainer, and at the bottom, an active deployment marker.

As a child, Elena Carter witnessed the brutal murder of her father, a decorated detective, at the hands of men she believed to be part of the Mafia. That night, her world shattered, and she vowed to dedicate her life to avenging his death. Years later, she becomes a detective, determined to bring down the very criminal empire she holds responsible. Her mission leads her deep into the city’s underworld, where she goes undercover to get close to the ruthless and enigmatic Adrian Moretti, a powerful Mafia boss feared by many. Cold, calculated, and untouchable, Adrian is a man who trusts no one—but when he crosses paths with Elena, something shifts. She intrigues him. She challenges him. And,