Chapter 174

CHAPTER 18... ANDRES My blood froze. Yet, I saw hope. “Descend where?” I asked. “To the boundary between two realms. To the shadow-path between waking and dying. Her soul is drifting there.” A slow horror unfolded in my chest. “You want me to follow her into—” “—the threshold she is trapped in,” the entity finished. “Yes.” ‘NO.’ Czer bristled violently. ‘Mate needs us alive. We die, she dies.’ But the entity shook its head as though it heard my lycan. “She will die if you stay here,” it said simply. “Her light is flickering. Her breath slows. Each moment you hesitate weakens the thread between you.” Valentina’s breath hitched barely, and my heart cracked. “Tell me what to do,” I whispered, my voice breaking for the first time. The Moonwell began glowing brighter, rising like a tide around my legs. “You must enter the Veil,” it said. “But you cannot enter as a Lycan. You must let your deeper form emerge.” My deeper— “Czer?” I breathed. Czer pressed against my soul. ‘The old form… the on