CHAPTER 81 — The Heart of the Fallen Guardian
The sky did not shatter all at once.
It peeled.
Reality tore open in long, screaming seams, layers of existence ripping apart like old cloth stretched beyond endurance. Darkness bled through the fractures, not empty darkness but living shadow, thick and pulsing as if the void itself had a heartbeat.
At the center of it all stood Gabriella.
Light poured from her chest in radiant waves, a living star struggling against the consuming dark. The fourfold bond burned bright, threads of power lacing outward from her spine to each Alpha like celestial chains forged of will and devotion.
Tristan’s roar echoed through the chaos as he slammed his claws into the fractured ground, anchoring himself as the world tried to tear him away. Fire surged from
