Chapter 145
Annalise
My blood went cold.
Demonis chuckled darkly, stepping closer to Dane’s chamber, his fingers trailing over the glass.
"You truly believed you alone could defeat me? That you could stand against me and my never-ending army?"
Dane remained motionless inside the chamber, his body suspended in the glowing fluid, his eyes closed, his features deathly still.
"And then your brothers came," Demonis continued. "Brave, foolish men, all of you. You gave me a battle I almost lost—almost." His smirk deepened. "If I hadn’t trapped you inside these chambers, you would have won. But you didn’t."
His fingers tapped once against the glass, the sound sharp.
"Now, look at you. Alive, yet dead. Time slipping through your grasp like sand in the wind."
My fists curled, nails biting i
