C29 When the World Kneels

The aftermath of the Binding Kiss still throbbed through the air, heavy like incense burned for gods long forgotten. Aiden stood in the center of the sanctum—his sanctum—his aura no longer veiled. It shimmered with ancient light, ethereal and commanding, forcing even the very air to shiver around him. Lucien and Damien knelt, not because they were forced