Chapter 543 They were underwater, speeding to the bottom of a lake and Gavriel Sterling wanted that thing gone. Every instinct he had screamed to burn it out. His magic agreed. His green coiled around the parasite, or suppressor, or whatever it was, and pulled hard, the way you pull

Chapter 542 The ice gave way beneath them like a trapdoor, and the lake swallowed them whole. The cold hit like a wall of knives. Freezing, instant, the kind of cold that bypassed the nervous system entirely and went straight to the bone, the kind that should have locked every

Chapter 541 “I’m sorry, Gav.” Her voice was a whisper and she didn’t look at him when she said it. She pulled out of his grip and straightened, boots hitting the ground, hands smoothing her training suit with the frantic composure of a woman pretending the last four seconds hadn’t

Chapter 540 “You know, most people buy me dinner before they wrap their legs around me a thousand feet in the air.” Serena gave him a flat look. “Most people don’t jump off volcanoes with me.” “Most people have survival instincts, Frostborne. Those are optional for you.” “You said yes

Chapter 539 Gavriel stepped forward, looked down, and every muscle in his body locked. A crater yawned beneath them, ten miles across if he was being generous with his spatial reasoning and conservative with his terror. The interior was carved into a colossal bowl of black obsidian, smooth and ancient

Chapter 538 She released. The arrow shot upward like a streak of liquid gold, slicing through the dim cavern air with a whistle that echoed off every surface of the thousand-foot shaft. It climbed and climbed and climbed, defying every law of physics that applied to projectiles fired by exhausted

Chapter 537 Heat rushed to her face so fast it could have powered a steam engine. Gavriel felt the flush before he saw it, her emotions brushing against him with an unnerving clarity that was sharper than anything he’d experienced, embarrassment and awareness and a very particular panic. “We both

Chapter 536 Gavriel’s arms tightened around her, and he didn’t respond. Her back was against his chest. Their heartbeats had synced without either of them deciding to let that happen, two rhythms falling into step like they’d been rehearsing in secret for months and finally dropped the pretense. His insides

Chapter 535 Gavriel’s heart slammed against his ribs. “Serena?” Her lashes trembled. Fingers twitched against his arm. She stirred, and the exhale that left him was so ragged it sounded like it had been held since she lost consciousness. Her eyes fluttered open, green, unfocused, blinking slowly like she couldn’t

Chapter 534 Gavriel woke first. Her blood was the reason. Still hot, still electric, still buzzing through his veins with enough voltage to drag him back to consciousness whether he wanted to come or go. His eyelids fluttered open, and the first thing he registered was warmth. The second thing