Chapter 61 The Thing Behind The Book

• A vault keeps what’s inside safe. It never promised to keep you safe from it.
• The cracks spread in quick, jagged lines across the table, spilling thin threads of white-gold light that pulsed like veins under glass. Kira’s pulse matched them. The book shifted—not sliding, not falling—moving, as though it was lifting itself.
• Eron took a step forward. “What’s under there?” The merged voice didn’t answer. Not Voss’s half. Not the child. They were both staring at the table like prey realizing the hunter had been behind them all along.