Chapter 429

For three heartbeats, the room stood still.

No sound.

No breath.

Only the faint echo of Seraphim’s first cry hanging in the air—

and then Jaden’s chest stopped moving.

Arlena reacted first.

“Move—move!” she barked, pushing past a table, shoving cloth aside. “Nerezza, get over here!”

Alaric didn’t mo...