Chapter 123

**Silas's POV**

The obsidian palace trembled beneath my feet as I stood in the highest tower, watching dawn break over the Shadow Realm. Three days. In three days, Lunara would be mine forever.

But something was wrong.

The throne room still bore scars from her outburst, cracks spider-webbed across the floor where frost had exploded outward. The very walls seemed to pulse with unstable magic. I could feel her power growing stronger, wilder, more dangerous ...