Accidentally Claimed
“The Moonshade didn’t merely conceal her, it refined her. Tempered her in the womb, like silver set in a crucible. Your mate accomplished something remarkable, Blackwood.”
A beat, then.
“She gave birth to an extraordinary gift. One that was never meant to belong to you alone… but to me.”
The darkest corner of the hall convulsed.
Shadows thickened, twisted, then knit themselves into shape. A figure stepped forward, tall, emaciated, cloaked in rags that drank what little light remained. Silas. His skin was stretched parchment over bone, veins black beneath the surface like spilled ink. His eyes burned violet, pupils slit like a cat’s in torchlight, and when he smiled, the teeth were too long,
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