CHAPTER 69— THE DEVOURER’S OFFER
Third- POV
The world around Gabriella shattered without warning. One moment, the monastery’s ruined stones and the distant storm stretched before her, the next, she was falling into a void of silence, of frozen air, of time suspended.
Her feet hovered inches above the ground. A stillness pressed against her chest like ice, cold and heavy. Every heartbeat seemed to echo in slow motion. Even the Alphas’ voices—shouts, curses, the clashing of protective wards—stopped at the edges of her awareness. She was utterly alone.
Then, from the shadows of the suspended world, he appeared. The Devourer. Cloaked, vast, immaterial yet somehow tangible, a presence that warped the frozen air around him. He stepped closer, his motion deliberate, slow, and impossible to pr
