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Chapter 141 – The Chainheart
Author: Rukky
last update2025-10-05 05:14:31

There was no falling. One moment, Adrian’s ribs were shredded by chain, Emily’s body pierced alongside his. The next, the world inverted.

Darkness wasn’t around them. It was inside them.

The chains dragged them not through space, but through themselves pulling their souls inside-out, blood and essence unraveling like threads through an unseen loom.

Their screams echoed in silence, devoured as soon as they left their throats. Adrian’s lightning stuttered, arcs collapsing into sparks. Emily’s flame guttered, trembling like a candle about to die.

But the chains blazed stronger with each drop of their light. The Heir’s laughter bled into every nerve. “Yes. Yes. Burn for me. The brighter your fire, the deeper you sink into my crown.”

Adrian’s vision fractured, shards of memory flashing past his eyes, his mother’s voice, the storm cresting on his first awakening, the moment Emily’s hand closed over his. All of them cracked like glass.

No.

He forced his hand to tighten around the chain impal
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