Jonas’s POV
The corridor became completely motionless after revealing the final inscription.
Neither the blue fire intensified again nor did the black doors open another fraction. Everything remained suspended in such absolute stillness that the silence itself began to feel heavy, almost physical, as though the words carved into the stone had altered something deeper than the air surrounding us.
The lost heir has returned.
The last one did not awaken alone.
I couldn’t tear my eyes away from that second sentence.
Because the longer I stared at it, the more unbearable the sensation slowly growing inside me became:
this was not beginning.
It was repeating itself.
Asher remained beside Callie, too close, as though simply keeping a hand on her could stop the corridor from fully claimin
