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Chapter Seventy-Seven – The General’s Vow
Fowler held her against his chest, her body cold, her breath gone. “No…” The word was a rasp, almost too quiet for even him to hear.His throat still burned from her grip, every swallow fire, but none of that mattered. His arms cradled her limp form, rocking as though the motion could bring her back.“Selene. Wake up.” His hand trembled as it brushed across her cheek, smearing blood and dirt. He pressed his forehead to hers, his eyes burning with a pain he’d never let anyone see. “You don’t get to leave me. Not you.”Vivienne was frozen a few steps away, her pistol hanging uselessly in her hand. “Is… is she”“Don’t.” Fowler’s voice cracked like a whip, sharp enough to silence her. His chest heaved, but his eyes stayed locked on Selene. “She’s not gone.”The scarred man coughed blood against the tree, his voice a rasping sneer. “You’re blind, General. The oath eats everything it touches. She fought it so it tore her heart instead. That woman is dead.”Fowler’s head snapped toward him,
Chapter Seventy-Six – Chains in the Dark
Inside the void, Selene’s world fractured. Her hands were no longer her own. They moved with monstrous strength, gripping something warm, solid Fowler.She couldn’t see him here in the darkness, not with her eyes, but through the bond she could feel him. His heartbeat. His breath. His life.And she was choking it out. “No stop!” she screamed inside her mind, thrashing against the invisible chains binding her soul. Her body outside did not obey. Her fingers tightened, cruel and merciless.The curse laughed, its voice slithering through her veins. Look at you. So fragile. So desperate. And yet you are the perfect vessel. Do you feel his life slipping away?She shook her head violently, tears burning hot down her unseen cheeks. “I won’t kill him! I love him!”The darkness hissed, wrapping her tighter, smothering her every thought. Love? Love is a leash. That is why your father bound him. That is why I own you now. Because you, Selene Carter, are weak.The shadows shoved her forward, forc
Chapter Seventy-Five – The General’s Breaking Point
Fowler had faced ambushes, betrayal, and warzones soaked with blood. He had walked through hell in chains and returned alive. But nothing had prepared him for this.Selene’s body writhed against him as though possessed, her back arching in unnatural angles, her throat constricting with strangled gasps.Her nails tore at her own skin, leaving streaks of blood across her arms. Her eyes, once pools of fierce light, were glazed white, trembling behind lids that refused to close.He held her tighter, his voice raw. “Selene! Stay with me, dammit stay with me!”Her mouth opened, but no sound came. Only silence. The silence of chains. Fowler’s jaw locked. He had seen this before. Not on her but on himself.Years ago, in the deepest cell of Blackwall Prison, when the curse of the Carter oath had tried to claw into him. The suffocating silence, the bleeding from within, the feeling of being eaten alive by shadows.And now it was killing her. Vivienne stood frozen just feet away, horror etched a
Chapter Seventy-Four – The Prison Within
Darkness. That was all Selene could see. It wasn’t the natural dark of night, nor the gentle black behind closed eyes. This was heavier.A darkness with weight, with teeth, with hunger. It pressed against her from all sides, crushing, suffocating, yet never quite killing.She tried to scream, but her throat was sealed, her voice chained. The sound caught inside her chest, clawing for release, but it died in silence.Am I dead?The thought echoed, faint in the void. But no she could feel. She could feel the burning shackles wrapping around her veins, the serpentine shadows curling tighter around her throat.Every beat of her heart made the chains pulse hotter, hungrier.Somewhere, distant, muffled, she felt Fowler’s arms around her. His voice desperate, furious was little more than an echo.She wanted to answer, to tell him she was still here, still fighting. But the curse smothered her words before they could form.Then a whisper slithered through the dark. Finally… you are mine. Sele
Chapter Seventy-Three – The Silence of Selene
The silence hit harder than any scream. Selene’s mouth moved, her throat strained, but nothing emerged. Not a whisper. Not a sound.Fowler’s heart stopped cold. He gripped her face in his bloodstained hands, terror burning through every scar and muscle. “Selene! Say something, anything!”Her lips trembled. Her eyes, wide and shining with pain, pleaded with him. She tried again, forcing air through her throat. Still nothing.The world collapsed around Fowler. Her voice the one thing that had carried him through chains, through war, through exile was gone.Vivienne stumbled back a step, her hand flying to her mouth. “Oh my God… she can’t…”The scarred man lowered his head, grim as a verdict. “The blood chain has bound her. Where it stole your tongue through fire and death, it’s sealed hers in silence.”Selene’s chest heaved, a sob shaking through her body, but it was voiceless. Her hands fumbled at Fowler’s shirt, gripping it tightly, as though her desperate touch could speak what her l
Chapter Seventy-Two – Chains of the Heart
Selene’s blood mingled with Fowler’s on the scorched earth, steam rising where it sizzled against the embers. The air grew heavy, pressing on every chest as though the night itself was holding its breath.Fowler’s ragged convulsions slowed, his body shuddering before finally collapsing into her arms. His chest rose and fell in labored but steady rhythm, each breath a victory pulled from death’s teeth.Selene held him tightly, blood streaming down her cut palm and dripping over his uniform. The moment her crimson touched him, something invisible locked around her.It wasn’t pain at least not the way Fowler had suffered. It was weight. Crushing, suffocating weight.As if shackles of molten iron clasped around her bones, threading through her veins, linking her pulse to something vast and merciless.Her breath hitched. She tried to pull away, but her blood kept flowing onto him, as though the ground itself demanded more.Vivienne staggered forward, her voice frantic. “Selene! Stop you’re
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