Chapter 229

Freya's POV Five days passed I woke with a start in my temporary quarters at Moretti AI Technologies, my hand instinctively reaching across the bed for Silvano's warmth. My fingers found only cold, empty sheets. Reality crashed back like a physical blow—we were separated, deliberately apart, all to slow the curse that was steadily claiming my mate. The digital clock read 6:47 AM. I'd barely slept three hours after spending most of the night upgrading the energy detection modules in the Artemis system. If this curse had a supernatural energy signature, my technology would find it. I turned away from the window and buried myself in the Artemis system's analytics panel. The supercomputer had been gathering background supernatural energy readings for months—a project I'd started when Isabella first showed signs of her quarter-fairy bloodline heritage. Now I repurposed it, calibrating the sensors to detect dark magic signatures matching the energy I'd captured from Silvano's curse mark last