Emily Rosewood’s Point of View.
The Hollow – the dawn after the second awakening
The Hollow no longer slept.
The tremors that had rolled through the ancient earth after the battle with Serinya still lingered like an echo beneath everyone’s skin. I stood at the edge of the Hollow’s central terrace, staring down into the newly revealed chasm beneath the Well of Undoing. The Veil was sealed again—but something had awakened before it closed.
Something familiar.
Sebastian approached silently, his presence a low thrum of heat and gravity behind me. The Alpha’s face bore the scars of the last battle—one across his temple, a burn along his collarbone—but his golden eyes remained unshaken. “You feel it too.”
I didn’t turn. “She’s awake.”
“Your twin.”
“No… not just mine,” I said softly. “She
