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Chapter Forty-Five – Ashes of Oaths
The abyss detonated. Adrian was hurled backward, fire swallowing his body, glass splintering into smoke and light. The void twisted itself inside out, walls of memory crumbling like paper in the flames.His lungs filled with ash. His hands tore at nothing as he slammed into the ground. The floor no longer felt like glass but shifting water, dragging him under.Above the roar of the collapsing world, he heard it, her voice.“Adrian!” It was hers. Not the Eye’s chorus. Hers.He forced his battered body upright, coughing blood. His skin peeled from his arms in charred ribbons, but he clawed his way forward, toward the sound.“Selene!” he shouted. “Where are you?”The abyss answered with phantoms A thousand Selene’s bloomed in the darkness, her in their kitchen, laughing with flour on her cheek, her on their wedding night, tears glittering in her eyes; her turning her back on him in the courtroom, shoving divorce papers into his hands.Each image split apart, mouths opening, screaming in
Chapter Forty-Four – Vessel of Fire
The first blast nearly tore him in half. Adrian dove, the searing white fire screaming past his shoulder, the heat stripping flesh from his arm. He hit the glass ground hard, the impact cracking through his ribs, but he forced himself up.“Selene!” His voice shredded in his throat. “Don’t let it take you!”She hovered above him, radiant, unrecognizable. The fire clung to her like wings, her eyes hollow pits of light. Every motion was not hers but the Eye’s, measured, cruel, inevitable.The vessel obeys, the chorus of voices declared through her mouth. The man before her is nothing but a chain to be broken.Her hand lifted. Fire coalesced, forming a spear of light. Adrian’s legs buckled, his lungs a furnace of ash. But still he stood.“Don’t,” he whispered, not to the Eye, but to her. “Don’t let it use your hands. Don’t let it make you kill me.”For the briefest second, her expression twitched. Her lips trembled as though she might answer, Then the spear flew.Adrian twisted aside, the
Chapter Forty-Three – Into the Abyss
The ground gave way, Adrian’s boots slipped on broken stone as the world caved beneath him. He lunged, his arms locking around Selene’s trembling body as they fell into the black chasm yawning below.The storm shattered above them, lightning cracking in reverse, drawn downward into the void.“Hold on!” Adrian shouted, though his voice was swallowed whole by silence.Her eyes, silver, burning, terrified, met his. She clung to him, fingers digging into his torn uniform, and for a heartbeat he saw the woman he remembered, the woman who laughed at midnight when the world was too cruel, the woman who once whispered, Don’t let go.Then the dark consumed them. The fall ended not with impact but with stillness. Adrian staggered to his knees, Selene limp in his arms.The ground beneath them was not earth, it was glass, stretching endlessly, reflecting the faint glow of her body. Above, there was no sky, only a swirling storm of white fire caged by shadow.Adrian coughed, forcing air into his l
Chapter Forty-Two – Shatterpoint
The spear of light screamed across the ruined corridor, brighter than any missile Adrian had ever seen. It tore the air apart as it came for him.Adrian threw himself sideways, the blast searing past his chest. The shockwave hurled him into the wall, concrete collapsing around him. Dust filled his lungs, his ribs shrieked in pain, but he forced himself back up.“Selene!” His roar split the storm. “It’s me, you know me!”But the figure before him was no longer the woman he’d held in the quiet hours of the night. Selene floated above the wreckage, her hair alive with fire, her eyes endless voids of white. The glow around her pulsed with something older than language, older than war.Her lips parted, but the voice was not hers, The oath ends with you, Adrian Kane, another blast surged from her palm.Adrian braced himself, diving forward into the shockwave instead of away from it. Pain exploded down his spine, but he moved anyway, driven by the one truth that anchored him: if he stopped
Chapter Forty-One – Through the Fire
I couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe. My bones cracked under the weight of it, and for one fleeting second, I thought I was already dead. Then, her voice cut through the blaze.“Adrian…”Not the Selene I knew. Not my wife, not the woman whose laughter I once held like a shield against the world. This voice was layered, hers, and something vast and endless beneath it, The Eye.I slammed into the wreckage of what used to be the corridor wall. Concrete split around me, rebar snapping like bones. My chest heaved, every breath searing as if my ribs were shards of glass.“Selene” The name ripped out of me raw, broken.Through the dust and fire, she hovered. Her body was there, but not, Her hair lifted in waves of flame, her eyes nothing but searing white. The storm curled around her like a living thing, bending to her smallest gesture.She wasn’t Selene Carter anymore, and yet, she was still mine.I dragged myself upright, ignoring the blood slicking my hands. My blade was gone, torn from me i
Chapter Forty – The Eye Opens
I shook, torn between the two of them, the storm spinning faster around me.Adrian shouted back, “She’s not your weapon, Damon!”Damon’s grin widened. “No. She’s her mother’s. That’s worse.”The Eye pulsed in agreement, heat stabbing through my ribs.I staggered forward, clutching my head. “Stop, both of you, stop talking! I can’t”“Selene, look at me!” Adrian roared. His voice cracked like it was breaking his soul. “If you let it take you, you’ll lose yourself! And I can’t, I can’t lose you!”The storm faltered for one heartbeat, and that was when Damon whispered, almost lovingly:“Then lose yourself, Selene. Because only when you stop fighting will you finally see who you truly are.”My knees gave out. The Eye seized me whole. Images ripped open my mind. Adrian, drenched in firelight, broken, kneeling; Damon standing triumphant, his hand reaching toward me; my mother’s voice, fading: Forgive me, my star. Forgive me.NO!” I screamed, the sound tearing everything apart.The walls expl
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