Hades' Cursed Luna novel Chapter 256

Hades

"I'm thinking clearer than I have in weeks," I said, jaw tight. "And I know what must be done."

"No, you don't," Kael growled, stepping forward despite his bonds. "You're not you. Not fully. That thing—it's twisting everything inside you. It wants to use her, not punish her. You think Vassir cared about justice? No. He only ever cared about revenge. You know what happened to him. He is vengeance incarnated."

I turned toward the door, ignoring the way the flux buzzed beneath my skin in agreement.

"You're going to kill her," Kael said. Not a question. A statement. "You will do thr same thing her parents did." Realization dawned on him and I saw the moment, it fully sank in.

My chest constricted as the striken expression settled on his features. "That's why you are calm, you finally did it. You did what that old bastard wanted."

I paused, hand on the seal, shoulders tense.

"No," I lied. He was not wrong, this was a goodbye. And I had lay it unto him gently.

But my voice wavered.

Kael's eyes widened.

> "Claim her soul," the flux crooned. "Make her yours, truly. You don't need love to keep her. You only need power."

Kael lunged, the chains yanking him back with a brutal snap, but it didn't stop him. His voice thundered after me, raw and furious.

"You're not Hades anymore, much less Lucien," he shouted. "You're just a shell he left behind. And when she sees you, she'll know. She'll know what you've become!

You are such a fucking coward, you could not stop loving her so you had to let that thing do it for you."

"Goodbye, Kael," my lips twitched in a smile that was somewhat genuine. "In 72 hours you will be released."

Kael stared at me as I walked towards the exit.

As the door was pulled open for me, Kael spoke. "I will pray to the goddess that when the real truth is revealed, however way that happens, that she will forgive you," he paused. "Because I know that I won't. I will resign as your Beta."

The door sealed shut behind me with a hiss when I stepped out.

And for a second, I leaned against it.

Not because I was weak.

But because I was tired.

Tired of the war inside me.

Of loving someone I had to destroy.

Of destroying someone I couldn't stop loving.

> "Don't worry," the flux whispered. "Soon, you'll feel nothing at all."

I stood straight.

Clenched my fists.

And headed toward the white room.

Because there was no turning back now.

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Eve

Footfall made my heart lunge out of my throat. It had been two days since the last time our eyes met.

By heart, I knew the sound of his footsteps. Tentatively, I raised my head. I had been transfered to chair where my arms where clamped to the arms.

My heart stopped when my eyes met his. The room seemed to dissolve into oblivion. His skin lacked its slight flush, in its place was an unhealthy eerie marble like complexion.

His skin lacked its usual warmth, replaced by a pallor that shimmered like stone under moonlight—cold, cracked, inhuman. The veins beneath his skin were darker than before, etched like black ink beneath glass. But it wasn't just his appearance that made my chest tighten.

It was his eyes.

They were different.

Not empty—but too full of something else.

A storm. A stranger.

He stopped a few paces from me, his shadow stretching long across the floor. The white room, sterile and bright, didn't soften him. It amplified him. Made him look like a walking monument to wrath barely restrained.

I felt the pressure in the room before he even spoke.

The door shut behind him with a soft click. No one else followed.

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