Chapter 180

The fortress groaned like it was alive, cracks spreading through the ceiling. Dust rained down, smoke curling through the air. Selene wiped the blood from her face, her chest rising and falling in sharp bursts.

Darius’s body lay dead at her feet, but his last words clung to her.

Your grandmother.

Selene’s golden eyes dimmed, confusion and fury twisting inside her. Her grandmother had raised her after her parents’ death. She had been kind, soft-spoken, the only comfort in a world that had taken too much too soon.

But Darius’s smirk as he died—the certainty in his tone, wouldn’t leave her.

“Selene!”

Lena’s voice dragged her back. The...