A gasp escaped my lips as I witnessed her transformation, my heart caught between disbelief and awe.

Cassidy's features shimmered with an otherworldly radiance, her eyes glowing with an inner fire. In that instant, she became something more than human. No, inhuman: a being touched by forces far beyond my own understanding.

I could feel the weight of destiny settling upon us, binding us together in a shared purpose. Elliot had unlocked a power that lay dormant within him, and Cassidy had become a vessel for something extraordinary.

I knelt before her, my heart pounding in my chest as I gazed upon her ethereal beauty. I had always been drawn...