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Chapter Forty: The Breaking Point
Darkness poured through him like molten tar.Kael screamed, but the sound barely belonged to him anymore. The chains didn’t just bind his body now—they had invaded deeper, threading through muscle, marrow, thought. Every link pulsed with Aurex’s rhythm, as if his veins had been rewoven into iron.His chest heaved in agony, but worse than pain was the feeling of slipping.Like sand pouring through open fingers.Like drowning in black water while a hand forced him down.Mine, Aurex’s voice thundered through the chamber of his mind. Your body, your strength, your heart. All of it, mine.Kael clung desperately to what was left. He forced himself to remember Lina’s face—the light in her eyes, the way her voice cracked when she whispered his name. For one agonizing instant, it steadied him. His breath caught, a flicker of himself rising against the tide.But Aurex saw it too.And struck.The darkness shifted, coalesced into images—memories stolen from Kael’s own soul. He saw Lina, but twist
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Through His Eyes
Kael’s body wasn’t his own anymore.He could feel every chain wound around him, slicing into muscle and bone, feeding a burning that licked through his veins like wildfire. He tried to resist, tried to summon even the smallest thread of his anchor, but the iron gnawed at him, leeching the fight from his soul.And Aurex was everywhere.His voice seeped through the links, through Kael’s blood, slithering into his skull. It was not one voice but many—echoes of whispers, laughter, screams. Sometimes it sounded like Kael himself, sometimes like the people he had failed to save.Weak.Unworthy.You cling to her because you are nothing without her.Kael clenched his teeth. “Get out of my head.”But the chains obeyed Aurex, not him. They tightened across his chest, making each breath jagged, and the iron gag yanked at his throat. His words fell into silence.And then—“Kael!”Her voice.His head jerked up, pain searing through his neck as the chains pulled, but he didn’t care.She was there.
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Chains We Choose
The world shattered as the door swallowed her.Lina hit the ground hard, the breath knocked out of her chest. Stone scraped her arms, fire burned her skin, and when she blinked the light from her eyes, she realized the chamber she’d landed in wasn’t made of stone at all.It was made of chains.Endless, interwoven strands of iron stretched across walls, ceilings, floors—like veins pulsing with dull red light. They twisted and coiled, alive, writhing when she shifted. Every movement made them rattle like bones.And at the center of it all—“Kael!” Her voice cracked as she scrambled to her feet.He was there.Or at least, he looked like he was.Kael hung suspended in the middle of the room, his arms stretched out, wrists bound in thick shackles that bled with light. Chains wrapped around his chest, his throat, his legs. His head sagged forward, his hair hanging loose over his face.Her chest clenched. “Kael—!”She rushed forward, stumbling on the uneven chain-floor, her palms tearing ope
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Shattered Reflections
The glass lay in ruins around her, jagged shards glittering like frozen starlight. Lina’s hands were cut, thin red lines crossing her palms where she had slammed them against the mirror. Her cheek burned from the fresh wound Aurex had carved with his illusion.But the worst pain came from the silence.Kael’s scream still echoed in her ears, but now it was gone—snatched away like a thread she couldn’t hold.The shadows pressed close, heavy with anger.“You presume too much,” Aurex hissed, his voice no longer cloaked in Kael’s softness. It rang sharp and metallic, vibrating in her bones. “You think love makes you immune. You think your defiance matters.”Lina staggered, her knees threatening to buckle beneath the weight of his presence. The floor cracked with each word, the stone trembling like it wanted to collapse.But she refused to bow.She lifted her chin, blood dripping from her jaw. “It does matter. That’s why you’re so desperate to take it from me.”A ripple of fury tore through
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Voice in the Glass
Lina had stopped trusting her eyes.The corridors of the Syndicate’s hidden complex shifted like mirages. One moment the walls were stone, rough and cold. The next, they glimmered with polished steel. Sometimes they even bent into glass, stretching her reflection until she barely recognized herself.It was Aurex’s doing. She knew that much.But knowing didn’t help when Kael’s voice kept pulling her deeper.“Lina,” he whispered from somewhere ahead, low and strained. “Don’t stop now. I need you.”She clutched her wrist, grounding herself with the faint mark that still lingered where Kael’s hand had once steadied hers. Her breath came in short bursts, white in the cold.How could she know if it was really him?Her mind replayed every second of the confrontation in the chamber. The way his eyes had flickered with something alien. The way his words had cut sharper than any blade. The way she’d felt her heart tremble with doubt before she could stop it.That doubt had been Aurex’s victory.
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Cage of Silver
The first thing Kael noticed was the silence.Not absence of sound—true silence, the kind that pushed against his eardrums until it became its own pressure. His breath seemed too loud, his pulse like hammers against iron. Every movement of thought echoed.He wasn’t sure if he was standing, lying down, or suspended. His body had been stolen from him so many times that he had forgotten what shape it truly belonged in.But he knew the chains.They weren’t iron. They weren’t even physical. They were woven threads of silver, glowing faintly as they coiled around his limbs and chest. Every time he tried to move, they pulled tighter, feeding a tremor of cold fire into his bones.And behind the silver threads—always—was Aurex.“Still clinging,” the voice purred, threading through Kael’s skull like smoke through cracks. “How long will you pretend that your resistance matters?”Kael ground his teeth together. His throat ached with words he refused to give voice to.Because if he spoke, Aurex wo
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