MATED TO MY BROTHER'S ENEMY
twitching.
“The source,” she muttered. “This is where it all started.”
She didn’t stall. Just swung the door open and waltzed right in.
The place was stupidly big, couldn’t possibly fit under the castle, but here it was. Black pillars vanished into the shadows up top, and rivers of corrupted silver snaked across the floor, just like the chains that’d held Marcus. Center stage: an altar, twin to Kael’s, only ancient and caked with blood. Runes barely visible, worn down by centuries of horror. Ringed all around by a bunch of creeps in hoods, chanting like their lives depended on it. Faces hidden, but their intent? Couldn’t be more obvious.