Chapter 94

• The moment Arthur spoke her name, the air in the room shifted. Even the torches that lined the stone walls of the conference chamber flickered and hissed, as though they too feared that name. Maleficent.
• It rolled off his tongue like poison, curling into the edges of my mind and stirring the remnants of dread that I had buried deep after Mila’s death. I felt the faint pulse of Aiden through the baby monitor in my hand, a small, rhythmic comfort reminding me that life, love, and something good still existed in the midst of all this madness.
• Connor’s body went rigid beside me, his arm instinctively outstretched as though he could shield me from words alone. His Alpha energy filled the room, dense and electric, but beneath it was fear, a primal, desperate kind of fear that only came when the thing you loved most might be taken away.