Chapter 1
1 In his dream, Aeric was back in the cave. Rationally, he knew this was just a place he’d spent a few nights long ago, a tight dark space with a heated pool that bubbled up from a hot springs located somewhere deep in the earth. His logical mind knew he hadn’t been to this place in hundreds of years, not since his last visit to Turkey. Back then, it had still been part of the Byzantine Empire, nothing like the radical breeding ground it appeared to be when Aeric saw it in the news these days. Still, his heart knew this place better than he knew his own face in the mirror. He came here frequently in his dreams, because it was where he always met her. Helle, he called her in his head, meaning divine woman. The closest thing to a goddess to walk the earth since the glorious days of the rad
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