Novelas y relatos de The Last Life Ring

Always too late. The last thing I felt was my engagement ring sliding from my finger as darkness claimed me. The ring that symbolized promises that would never be kept, a future stolen from me by hands I once held with love. Death wasn't the end. But I didn't know that yet. .* * *

I could put up with everything else, but that watch was different. It was a birthday gift from my late older brother, Norman, who had spent almost six months saving up for it. Two years ago, he was killed during an undercover mission. They never even found his remains. That watch was all I had left to remember him by. Samson was already so unfair. Meanwhile, I was exhausted, and I didn't even want to fight about this anymore. When I thought about my decision to leave soon, I felt strangely at peace.

The opening sealed shut behind them both. Silence swallowed the facility whole. Then every screen flared to life one last time, displaying a single final message: DAY SEVEN HAS BEGUN. THE ORIGINAL IS COMING. AND IT KNOWS HER NAME.

The rideshare I was in broke down on a mountain road. None of our phones had a signal, so we couldn't even make a call. We waited from midnight until 3 a.m., but not a single car passed by. After it started raining, we had no choice but to get back into the car. That's when we noticed the female passenger in the front seat was still asleep. "Do you want something to eat?" the driver asked as he pulled out a few sandwiches and gently tapped her shoulder. Her body suddenly tilted to one side. Then she collapsed. The driver jumped in fright and tried to help her up. But the moment he leaned closer, his face turned pale. "She's dead!" he screamed. His frantic movements twisted the woman's head a

On the one Selene had found, the bone curved to the right, harsh and bent, like a hook. "Mirrored," Maelis whispered. "Someone copied it. Or twisted it." I turned the two rings over, and my skin crawled. "The circle's mark was meant to protect. Corvyn's wolves took it and turned it backwards." "That is why the old Keeper's circle never spoke of Corvyn," Maelis said. "They would never have worn the wrong ring." "Then the real circle did not betray us." "Not all of it." Her face crumpled. "But somebody did. The song lived in only four mouths, Wren. My mother was the last of them. She either took it to her grave, or she taught it to someone else."

In my last life I spent a lifetime proving I loved him, a lifetime waiting for him to turn back. And to his dying day he said he wished he had never met me. So in this life, what was left to fight for? I slowly raised my hand. I slid the engagement ring off my finger, and the bareness it left behind hollowed out something inside me. In my last life, all I remembered was the tenderness in his eyes the day he slid this ring onto my finger. Yet after only a few meetings with that human girl, he had grown cold toward me. Unwilling to accept it, I clung to this ring day and night, certain that one day his heart would turn back to me.

He asked. "Yes, boss" the person on the other end answered. "Did you send the letters?" The hood man asked. "Yes boss" "Wait for my next signal before you send the next one. Kill them both when the last package is sent". "Yes boss I understand " "Good" and the call was disconnected. ~~ "Were you in a call?" Drizzy asked walking toward Ethan. "Ahh, yes it was the event planner" "Oh okay, how is the preparation going?" "Good. And how was your shopping. Did you buy everything you needed?".

He flicked his sleeve and a gleaming object flew out from within. The object was the size of an ink slab at first but by the time it reached Xiao Chen, it became as large as a lower millstone. It turned nonstop while radiating a cold and eerie glow. It was incredibly unpleasant to the eyes. Xiao Chen reached out and caught the object between his fingers with a clanging sound. So the object was a Life-exterminating Ring. The leader immediately turned pale. He desperately cast spells and incantations but the magic treasure that he had refined for more than 10 years appeared stuck to Xiao Chen's hand. No matter what he did, he was unable to summon it back.

Riley asked " Jesse?, your Jesse?'' Ana asked with a tone that depicted surprise " yeah...we never talk about Jesse, so..." " well, i saw him last night?'' Riley said " Saw him last night?, weren't you with Adam last night?, did he know it was Jesse?'' Ana asked trying to make sense of the current situation. " There is no adam Ana" Riley replied with a big sniff " What do you mean by there is no Adam?, did something happen to him?, wait, is he dead??' Ana asked, obviously confused

"She can't be." "There is only five royal blood left in the Aero Edis. Queen Khan Awae being the last woman, her brother Prince Nicholas, and his three sons could be the fourth guardian." King Suxx said. "Who between them is the guardian, that's what we need to find out," Hunter declared. "What help can I do now?" I joined in the conversation. Hunter looked at me. "Find out who the last guardian is," he turned to Prince Marcus. "You two must start your first step now."