All Chapters of REBORN ALPHA : Chapter 11
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What the Moon Takes
"Don't you dare," I whispered. "Sable. Don't you dare."I pressed my mouth to her hair. I shook her. I called her name until my voice cracked. Her body stayed cold in my arms, her head lolling against my elbow.Above us, Draven's laughter rolled through the open vault like thunder."Dead," he said, almost kindly. "What a waste. She'd have made a lovely Luna."Kael.The voice in my head was so faint I almost missed it. Rowan, thin as smoke. Our souls had loosened when the Stone pulled at us, and I could feel the seam between us again, a crack widening down the middle of my mind.I can still reach her, he said. Her heart stopped, but her soul hasn't left. The Stone is holding it. If I go in after her...You'll be torn apart.I'm already coming apart. A broken laugh. Let me spend what's left on something that matters.Rowan...She's my sister, Kael.I couldn't say no. I didn't have the right."Then go," I whispered. "And come back."I'll try.Something slipped out of my chest, warm and w
The Luna's Circlet
"Let her go."My voice came out wrong, scraped raw and shaking. Draven didn't even look at me. He held Sable a foot off the floor, one hand locked around her throat, golden light flickering beneath her skin."Why would I?" he said. "I've spent years building this. A Luna with two souls? The Stone has never had a vessel like her."Sable clawed at his wrist. Her lips shaped a word. Kael.I threw myself at him.He didn't even turn. He flicked his free hand, and a wave of silver force hit me in the chest and slammed me into the wall. The stone cracked behind my spine. I slid down it, vision swimming, and tried to stand. My legs wouldn't answer.This body can't take much more, I thought. Without Rowan's soul tangled with mine, the borrowed flesh was failing. I could feel the ritual unraveling at its edges, my hands going numb, my heartbeat stuttering."Kael."A whisper from the floor. Seraphine lay near the broken pedestal where the Luna magic had left her, her cloak soaked dark, one hand