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The moment he said it, I could feel the truth in his words, a deep and cold knowing that gripped me like a vise. Jace’s growl grew louder, almost feral, as he stepped forward to protect me. His body was tense, his muscles coiled like a spring ready to snap. The stranger smirked, clearly amused by Jace’s anger. “You can’t protect her forever,” the stranger said, his voice laced with mockery. “She’s too far gone. You’ll see, Jace. She will embrace the darkness inside her. It’s only a matter of time.” The stranger’s words were like knives, each one twisting in my chest, each one confirming my worst fears. What if he was right? What if I couldn’t control what was happening to me?

"There is a problem. This was not intended to occur. Kael was about to reply when someone stepped out of the darkness. In the gloomy light, the stranger's flowing black robe glistened. Her face was hidden behind a cowl, revealing only her brilliant silver eyes that glowed dimly in the shadows. As the apparition talked in a voice that was a terrifying blend of familiarity and menace, the tension in the air increased. The stranger remarked, "You've come a long way." "However, the truth you are looking for is not what you believe."

That was what they wanted or feared. The stranger appeared again. Closer this time and much closer. Only a few hundred feet away. His black eyes locked onto us. The moment they did, a memory slammed into my mind. Not one of the cycles, not one of Lena's lives but something older. Far older. A woman standing in darkness. A woman whose face looked exactly like Lena. Holding a newborn star in her hands. The black eyed stranger standing beside her. Smiling. Not as an enemy but as family.

“You won’t like what happens if you do.” Tears burn at the corners of my eyes, but I blink them back. I won’t cry. Not in front of him. Not now. The road narrows, the fields giving way to a stretch of forest. Branches arch overhead like skeletal hands, blotting out even the moonlight. The car’s beams are the only light, a fragile thread through the suffocating dark. The stranger finally breaks the silence again. “Do you want to know a secret?” I don’t answer. My throat is locked.

My gaze trailed upward, slow and hesitant, to a face I wasn’t ready to see. Veylor Caith. The stranger who had arrived in our quiet, almost dead town for reasons I couldn’t begin to understand—and now he was standing over me like he had been waiting.

He commands. I place my hand in his as the blond grabs his shoulder. The other hand of the dark one grabs a hold of Igneous' leg. I watch as the man's eyes close and suddenly we are in a sea of black as small rays of color start to flash by. My stomach lurches at the movement and I fight to hold in its contents. Then suddenly everything comes to a still and we are suddenly in the forest. I jerk my hand away from the stranger and run the few steps I can before lurching the contents of my stomach onto a stump of the tree.

I saw him mixing in crowd with my blurred vision, but then, my subconscious me of more important things such as walking to my definitely-wasted girlfriend. Before I could move anywhere, I felt someone’s eyes on and I moved my eyes in that direction, there stood a man passing me different looks which I could comprehend. I nodded at him and turned around to open the door. I got in and the same disco lights welcomed me but with a different song. Leaping faith, I started taking drunk-steps to the last cabin he instructed me to.

He could hear hands working desperately at the lock and that made him brim with anticipation. Finally, he thought, till the door opened for him to see a tall macho man with overgrown beards and tattoos scattered all over his body. The shock from seeing the stranger made him almost unable to speak. He had heavy rock music pounding in his apartment. “Can I help you mate?” his deep voice could make anybody’s knees buckle with frightful intimidation. “Sorry…I came to the wrong door,” Kylian broke out in an uncoordinated stutter, “I was looking for some girl named Maya, she lives on this floor…I don’t know if you might know her, somehow.”

I answered since Esther was sobbing, "Undergrove guards are with them and Nalani is safe with my cousin." Her burning eyes flickered at me. But someone suddenly came, who spoke immediately, "I know where Max is." A red headed girl with straight long hair and looks like Esther too. Three clone? She also gnashing her teeth facing Esther and like a Gothic woman she also slapped my mate. What the fuck?! "Stupid! Bob sensed Max's scent in the Dark Furious! Nalani's scent was there too! What the hell are you doing?!" What are they saying? Max? In Dark Furious? Esther cried yelling, "That's impossible! Max won't go near the Dark Furious!"

He turned his attention to Melissa and covered her with the piece of clothing; her shoulder to her knee area. “Are you scared?” Melissa swallowed painfully. “No. Why would I be?” “I think I can hear your heartbeat.” “Through the loud music? I don’t think so.” “Good. Just wanna make sure you are okay with this.” Melissa stared in uncertainty as the stranger squeezed a small piece of lime into a shot glass that had a bit of content in it. Then he picked up the shot glass. “You asked for this but I’m not going to harm you.” Since the coat was doing a very good job protecting her from any third party, the stranger went ahead to push up her crop top till her perky boobs were revealed. He brought