Chapter Nineteen: Blood They Buried
The air changed the moment they arrived.
Not like a storm.
Not like fear.
But like authority had stepped onto the battlefield.
And everything else adjusted.
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Cassandra
She felt it immediately.
The pressure.
Not crushing, but controlled.
Deliberate.
The kind of power that didn’t need to shout.
It owned the silence.
Her fingers tightened around Jay instinctively.
“Stay behind me,” Jason murmured at her side.
But Cassandra didn’t move.
Because for the first time, she understood something clearly.
Running.
Hiding.
Surviving.
That part of her life was over.
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The King and Queen
King Alpha Bon stepped forward first, his presence like carved stone. Unyielding, immovable, ancient in its own right.
Beside him, Queen Anastasia mov
