Chapter 70: The Price of Loyalty
Killian POV
I wasn’t supposed to care this much.
As the storm raged on, I knew this wasn’t about honor, or duty, or the alliances I had forged over years of careful maneuvering. This was about Aria—always about Aria.
I stood at the edge of the forest, the wind whipping around me, as I watched her from a distance. She and Darius had retreated deeper into the woods, and it was clear that the weight of the truth was already pressing heavily on her. The confrontation, the revelations—everything had led to this. The storm was a reflection of what raged inside her, and now, it seemed like nothing could calm it.
And then it happened.
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The earth trembled under my feet. The crack in the earth near Aria and Darius had grown wider, and from it, dark energy p
