Chapter 182

CHAPTER 24… ANDRES Her words punched the air out of my lungs. Luciano. My son. Our son. I had left him near the moonwell, to the entity's care. For a moment, everything went silent— the earth, the wind, even Czer inside me. The silence fell so loud that it felt like a pause before a battlefield erupts. Then suddenly— BOOM. A loud echo of something and my heart slammed back to life… “Luciano,” I echoed, my voice was raw, low, and lethal. “I left him at the Moonwell… under the entity’s care.” Valentina’s breath faltered. In her eyes, fear was lingering, not as chaos— it was precision. Sharp... Sharper than any blade I have ever held. “We need to—” She spoke, but she didn’t finish. She couldn't. Because the ground beneath us lurched. Not like a tremor. Like something beneath the surface… turned its head to us. Czer roared inside me. ‘It’s coming!’ A sound of warning. A sound I had only ever heard once, centuries ago— when legends weren’t legends but living threats. ‘Old power awakens. Not