BLOOD FOR A BRIDE
he said slowly, choosing each word with painful precision, “belonged to a bloodline older than vampires. Older than the factions. A lineage that could break curses, rewrite fate, bend memory and time.”
“And she passed that to me.”
His jaw tightened. “Yes.”
Lightning cracked in the distance.
And then—
The earth pulsed again.
Light spilled upward from the grave in a slow, deliberate bloom—ruby shifting into gold, then into a deep, violent crimson.
The color of my eyes when they changed.
I knelt again, ignoring the trembling in my hands. “She’s calling.”
“She’s warning,” Malrik corrected.
The soil trembled harder, and suddenly—
The ground beneath the grave split open with a sharp, shuddering cr
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