The abyss swallowed her whole.
Selena plunged into darkness, weightless, her body spiraling through an endless void. She wasn’t merely falling—she was being consumed, as though the abyss was tearing her apart thread by thread, unraveling everything she was. The cold was unbearable, sinking into her bones, wrapping around her lungs like invisible chains.
She gasped for air, but there was nothing to breathe. Nothing to hold onto.
Damian!
She had felt his fingers brush against hers just moments ago. Felt the golden warmth of his touch—a lifeline in this unending blackness. But now… it was gone.
“Did you really think you could escape?”
A voice, smooth and familiar, slithered through the void.
Selena’s eyes snapped open.
The doppelgänger floated before her, weightless in the abyss, watc
