Chapter 277

ALISTAIR’S POV I stood outside the tall double doors of Memphis’s room. My jaw was clenched so hard it ached. My hands trembled at my sides, not from fear, but from the pressure of what I had already chosen. Liam’s words echoed in my skull like a curse: “Would you die for Natalie?” I meant every bit of the answer I said. I would die for her over and over again. Had let her down too many times. Now was the time to prove to her and Aurora that I was a worthy father. I thought of my mate and how she had been locked up by Memphis for years. I thought of Natalie and all she might have gone through in his hands. I knew there was a possibility that I might not make it out alive tonight but for the two of them, I would endure anything. If tonight demanded my blood, my body, my soul, I would give it. For Aurora. For Natalie. For Liam. For everything Memphis had destroyed. I pushed the doors open. The chamber was thick with smoke and the smell of old blood. Strange runes glowed along the walls.