Chapter 13
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Alina clutched her wrist as the mark started glowing violently—silver flames crawling up her arm.
“Rafe—what’s happening?” she gasped.
“You’re remembering,” he said.
“But too fast. Your body can’t handle all the timelines at once.”
Kael stepped forward.
“The mark is reacting because I’m near.”
Rafe blocked him.
“Stay back.”
Kael smirked.
“She and I were bound first, Rafe. You know that.”
“That bond was broken,” Rafe snapped.
“It died the day you did.”
“I didn’t die,” Kael said.
“I waited.”
Alina groaned as the burning intensified.
Visions started flashing—
hands reaching, moonlight falling, screams, a blade, a cold night—
“Make it stop!” she cried.
Rafe grabbed her shoulders gently.
“Alina, look at me. Focus on now. Not the past.”
Kael’s voice cut through the chaos.
“Remember me, Alina. Remember us.”
“Don’t listen to him,” Rafe said firmly.
“He’s pulling your memories out by force.”
A sharp crack echoed in the air.
The ground split beneath them like the earth itself responded to her awakening.
“The bond…” Kael whispered, eyes widening.
“It’s reforming.”
Rafe’s face fell.
“No. No, this can’t happen.”
“Bond?” Alina gasped. “What bond?”
Kael smiled—sad, longing, dangerous.
“The bond we made before you died.
The promise you gave me.”
Her head pounded.
“What promise?!”
Kael stepped closer—voice soft, almost breaking.
“That you’d find me
in every life.”
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