Chapter 159
Annalise
It wasn’t the mates who had once held me in their arms, whispering vows of forever, of love so deep it defied fate itself.
Their concern was gone.
The moment their bodies had stopped trembling, the way they had carried themselves shifted.
Their hands, once desperate to touch and hold me, now twitched at their sides like they were resisting something primal.
The muscles in their necks tightened, and the slow, careful way they stared—
It wasn’t love.
It wasn’t recognition.
It was something darker.
Something twisted.
Something possessive.
My breath caught in my throat, and for a second, all I could hear was the pounding of my heart.
Azwei.
The name itself burned inside me.
The celestial being whose power ran through my veins.
The being who had once been pu
