Peter rose from the floor of the closet.
The morning was, by every honest accounting of the man inside it, won. Anastasia lay sprawled across the soft white carpet beside him, naked, flushed, her dark hair fanned out behind her, her grey eyes lazy and pleased and following him as he stretched his shoulders and reached toward the suit rack for the linen tunic laid out for him an hour before they’d ruined the floor.
The bite mark on his shoulder still hummed.
He smiled.
He was about to make a joke about Russian receipts.
He didn’t get to.
His shadow opened.
That was the only honest description for what happened in the half-second before everything changed. The soft underglow of the closet was producing exactly one shadow at his feet—his own, faintly long, gold-edged from the architecture’s flattering light—and that shadow, without sound, without warning, unfolded.
Something stood up out of him—an angelic silhouette of merciless white fire and divine wrath.
A woman in white fire.
She had been waiting for the moment his guard would be exactly this far down.
Two flaming swords erupted from the empty air behind him and drew themselves into existence in her hands and the blades punched through his back with wet, searing thud as they went through him before his nervous system finished registering she was there.
One blade entered his back below the left shoulder blade, exited through the front of his chest in a clean shaft of white fire that punched a hole the size of a fist through his heart, and kept going.
The other entered higher, through his right lung, exited through his sternum, and stopped with its tip glowing six inches from Anastasia’s face.
The closet’s underglow died and reality recoiled.
Peter’s eyes flew open.
He looked down.
Two pillars of fire were sticking out of his chest.
His Eros form tried desperately, to ignite. It flickered once, twice, a stuttering golden corona that guttered and died.
The white fire was already inside him, eating him alive from the marrow outward.
He could feel the meat of his organs liquefying. He could feel the skin of his arms charring inward toward the bone in black, curling sheets. He could feel the System itself screaming.
Thirty-one wives... an entire empire of hearts and souls and futures. Every nerve in every one of them lit up at once as the load-bearing wall of their world was struck and began to collapse.
Peter turned his head.
Anastasia was naked, frozen, grey eyes wide and locked on the glowing tip of the blade hovering six inches from her face.
Her mouth was already open and a scream tore through the estate.
The entire Chasm answered with cataclysm. Every crystal vein in the walls detonated into blinding crimson light. The floors heaved as if the world’s spine had snapped. Distant mountain ranges cracked and slid into abysses.
Towers across the estate imploded in cascades of rubble. The pulse rolled outward in a planetary shudder, shaking the curvature of the earth itself.
Aria ripped into existence in the same fractured heartbeat—midnight silk and roaring spiritual aura exploding outward like the birth of a new cosmos. She saw Purity wrench the twin blades free in one vicious pull.
Flames howled like judgment itself as the angelic woman spun them, the motion alone splitting the sky visible through the shattered dome.
Purity raised the right blade for the killing stroke — and brought it down with the serene, unhurried grace of a being who had performed this exact motion since before stars had names.
Peter’s lips parted.
Whatever last sarcastic farewell, whatever final roast, whatever cocky you got me he might have offered the universe never reached the air.
She took one step.
That single stride shattered the fabric of reality. Space folded in on itself, time stuttered and tore. The entire estate—every tower, every hall, every inch of stone and crystal—vanished in an instant, vaporized into subatomic mist.
The planet’s crust seemed to have fractured in jagged lightning-bolt fault lines that raced across continents. The spiritual energy ignited in a roaring ring of plasma that wrapped the globe, triggering simultaneous in tidal waves tall enough to swallow entire civilizations.
Her one hand thrust forward, fingers closing around empty space where Peter’s neck had been a fraction earlier; the other palm unleashed a concentrated cataclysm of spiritual energy—a blinding lance of annihilation hot enough to bleach the planet’s crust white, punch a molten shaft toward the core, and threaten to destabilize the world’s rotation itself.
"NOOOOOO!" The scream ripped from his dissolving throat. "SAVE HER!"
It was like the last clean, command of a dying demigod, fired through every channel his body still possessed — chip, system, marrow, breath, soul — and it slammed into the small, forgotten part of his souls where the ⟨Protection Mark⟩ had waited in silence since that filthy Lincoln Heights alley.
Power surged from somewhere beyond knowing—neither Purity nor ARIA had ever sensed its like. A golden shield of pure, primordial light snapped around Anastasia. It blazed brighter than creation’s first dawn.
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