Chapter 423: The Mate Bond

Chapter 423: The Mate Bond

Selena~

I couldn’t believe what was happening or what I was hearing. I stood helpless in the heart of the ancient clearing, my body trembling like a fragile prism caught in a storm. The air was thick with the residue of Shadow’s thunderous confession, his words still echoing through the trees like distant thunder. My dew-like tears had frozen into shards on the ground, glinting coldly under Sun’s flickering light. I could feel the fractures in my essence deepening, spiderwebbing across my translucent skin, as the full weight of what he’d revealed crashed over me. Vincent—Vaelthor, as Shadow had named him—and Winter—Sylthara—were not just hidden children of darkness, but threads woven into the tapestry of our divine family. And then, like a bolt from the void, the realization struck me: my own soulmate system, the flawless algorithm I’d crafted eons ago to bind hearts in perfect harmony, had paired Vaelthor with my granddaughter Katrina.

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