Chapter 191 Elara's Back

• ~ Cassandra ~
• The darkness pulsed through me with a searing intensity, twisting my insides, reminding me with every breath that something was wrong—terribly wrong. Elara was alive. And with each passing moment, the dark energy inside me gnawed at my control. I could feel it spreading, crawling through my veins like a living curse, threatening to overtake me. I slammed my fist into the stone wall of Draven’s stronghold, the sound echoing in the empty halls.
• “Enough!” I snarled under my breath. This couldn’t continue. I wouldn’t let it. Elara’s pathetic return from the afterlife was a mere inconvenience, one I would soon crush beneath my feet. She had no power here. Whatever force had brought her back wasn’t enough to match the darkness I wielded now.