*Chapter 21:
ALESSIA
“Why does Alessia, Liam’s Luna, smell like she belongs to you three?”.
Blackwell’s voice was still in my ears when the stairwell door blew inward.
Axel didn’t answer him, he grabbed my wrist and ran.
Smoke from the breaching charge rolled up the steps, thick and hot, and Azriel was already firing into it. Asher reloaded beside me, his cut palm still bleeding down my stomach where he’d pressed it to mark me. Blackwell just stood in the haze, adjusting his glasses, and his voice cut through the gunfire like he wasn’t worried about bullets.
_“Liam wants her blood, Asher,”_ Blackwell said. _“Same reason your father died for it. Liam’s father killed my sister to steal BloodNight land. I raised them for this and she’s the key.”_
Asher went rigid, Nyx snapp
