Drake - POV

Yuri’s piercing scream shattered the frozen silence, wrenching me out of my daze. She clung to the lifeless bodies of her newfound family—people she’d only known for two months but had grown to love deeply. And now, they were gone. I turned to Opal, whose empty, soulless gaze pierced through me, igniting a fire in my chest. My anger roared.

I lunged toward her, fire magic crackling at my fingertips, ready to burn her to ash for what she’d done—but before I could ...