SCARLETT
The silver blaze scorched the night, ripping the ground open in jagged cracks. Fire hissed. Lightning screamed. Shadows bled. And in the middle of it all I lay gasping, my body writhing as the mark on my chest poured light like liquid flame.
“Scarlett!” Kael’s roar shook the air. He dropped to his knees beside me, his fire burning just enough to keep me warm instead of incinerating me. His hands trembled as they cupped my face. “She’s fading. Gods, I can’t stop it.”
Darius’s storm whipped around us, frantic and uncontrolled, his gray eyes glowing like twin lightning bolts. “It’s the bonds,” he growled, pacing in a circle like a caged wolf. “Three ties pulling at her soul at once. No wolf survives that. She’ll be torn apart.”
Lucien stood apart, calm as a serpent, his shadow-w
