My Mate's Father Claimed Me
“And remember my heartbeat.”
The Void recoiled at the sound of my voice speaking to him, not as a weapon, not as a command, but as a promise. That was its weakness, It could consume rage, it could corrupt ambition but love, freely given, confused it.
I turned fully toward the heart of the Echo-Verse.
“You want a feast,” I said, my voice carrying effortlessly across the infinite dark. “You always have.”
The Void answered not with words, but with pressure, gravity, and with the crushing certainty of an entity that had devoured worlds and still felt hollow.
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