The portal carved reality like a blade through silk.
Liam felt it first through the mate bond—Akira's sharp intake of breath, the way her hand pressed against her swollen belly where the triplets responded to their brother's approaching presence with urgent kicks. Then the air itself shifted, ancient power bleeding through dimensional barriers as space folded to accommodate forces that predated physics.
The compound's atmosphere changed instantly. What had been thick with supernatural storm and human rage suddenly lightened, as if the world itself exhaled in relief. The dome's surface rippled like disturbed water, casting prismatic light across the garden where world leaders still huddled like frightened children.
Ulfric emerged from nothing with the majesty of mountains moving. The Wol
