<b>Chapter </b><b>139 </b>


    Va POV


    The air in the crypt was heavy with candle smoke and spilled power. Shadows danced across the stone walls, licking like tongues of midnight me. I stood barefoot inside the blood circle, naked under the sheer silk robe Lucien had given me. Red. Of course.


    “You look like sin incarnate,” he murmured from across the circle, his eyes gleaming ck with hunger. “Fitting.”


    I smirked, tilting my head. “Are you finally ready to ruin me, darling? Or are we going to flirt all night?”


    Lucien’sugh was a low rumble, like velvet dipped in poison. He stepped forward and the circle red, recognizing its master. He was shirtless now, with blood sigils scrawled across his chest and arms in ck ink that shimmered with forbidden magic.


    The ritual had begun.


    “Kneel,” he ordered.


    I did.


    He came behind me, lifting my hair and exposing my neck. His lips brushed my skin. “This will hurt.”


    “Good,” I whispered.


    And then he bit.


    Pain exploded through my body like wildfire. My scream echoed off the walls as his fangs tore into my throat, and I felt my blood being pulled from me, it was greedy, brutal, and intimate. My vision darkened, my body swaying, and my heart slowing. I was dying.


    And I wanted it.


    Lucien pulled back just before the edge. My body copsed, weightless and trembling. I was frozen between life and death.


    “Now,” he growled, slicing open his own wrist and pressing it to my mouth. “Drink.”


    I did.


    The moment his blood hit my tongue, the world exploded. Fire. Darkness. Power. My body arched<b>, </b>convulsed, and then reformed. I wasn’t <b>just </b>Va anymore, I was more. Eternal. Feral.


    I screamed again, this time with <b>ecstasy</b><b>. </b>


    Soria POV


    <b>I </b>stood just outside the circle, watching my sister be. My skin burned with jealousy and anticipation. Soon. Soon it would be my turn. Lucien stepped back, blood covered and glowing like a god, as Va rose to her feet, her lips stained red, eyes a glowing crimson gold. She looked terrifying.


    She looked perfect.


    10:58 <b>Tue</b><b>, </b><b>Oct </b>7


    “Your turn,” Lucien said, turning to me.


    But before <b>I </b>could move, the door mmed open.


    A man stepped into the chamber, tall, lean muscle, with silver blond hair swept back from a face so perfect it looked carved. His eyes locked on mine and something snapped.


    “You,” he said, his voice like thunder and silk. “You’re mine.”


    My knees buckled.


    Lucien didn’t even flinch. He smirked. “Ah. Varek.”


    So that was his name.


    “She’s mine,” Varek said again, stalking forward. “Fated. I feel it in my fucking soul.”


    “I’m not an object,” I snarled, stepping forward even as my legs shook. “You don’t own me.”


    “No,” he said, stopping just in front of me. “But you were made for me. And I was made to protect you. To change you.”


    Gods help me, I wanted him. I didn’t know him. But my body did. My soul howled for him. “Let him do it,” I said, turning to Lucien.


    Lucien grinned wide. “Of course. I wanted Va for myself anyway.”


    <b>He </b>stepped back, gesturing grandly toward the blood circle.


    “im her, Varek.” And Varek did.


    He stripped off his jacket, his fangs already out. He didn’t ask again. He knew. “This will hurt,” he murmured against my neck.


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    The bife was agony and glory all in one. He drained me almost to the brink of death, then cut himself and fed me his blood. It was hotter than fire, and thicker than wine. When it hit my stomach, I burned.


    My body shifted. My heart stopped. And I rose, no longer just Soria Stormw. I was reborn. Deadly. Divine.


    Lucien pped once<b>, </b>pleased. “Wee to eternity, my darling girls.”


    Va grinned, licking her lips. I smiled back.


    Let the fucking games begin.


    Va POV


    The moment the hunger hit, it was like my veins caught fire.


    Not just thirsty….starving. <b>My </b>gums ached, fangs fully extended. Every breath tasted like <b>ash </b><b>and </b>desperation. I could hear hearts beating


    673


    from three floors above. I wanted to devour.


    73


    Lucien led us down the obsidian staircase beneath the castle, one level deeper than even the war chambers. The walls bled crimson light from sconces shaped like ribcages. The air was thick with incense and iron.


    “Where are we going?” I asked, my voice low and feral.


    Lucien smiled like the devil. “To feed, my darling.”


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