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As humans, animals, and even the Earth itself begin to mutate and gain consciousness, a hidden conspiracy unravels, revealing Aurelia’s true origins and the dark forces manipulating the New Age. Alongside Lucian, a vampire with a mysterious lineage, and a cast of allies and enemies, Aurelia must navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. But as the planet awakens, so do the true villains—those who hide behind masks of virtue, their intentions far more sinister than anyone could imagine.

P.S The cover is not mine :)

The Vampire's Obsession

Kael gasped awake to the acrid taste of blood in his mouth and Lucian's hands gripping his shoulders hard enough to bruise.

"Look at me!" Lucian snarled, his crimson eyes burning in the dim light. His fangs were bared, his usually composed features twisted into something feral. "Stay with me, damn you!"

The dead forest was gone. The temple ruins—vanished. Instead, they stood in a vast, hollow expanse of cracked earth beneath a sky the color of a fresh bruise. The air hummed with a low, dissonant frequency that set Kael's teeth on edge.

Aurelia was on her knees a few feet away, her hands pressed to the ground, her entire body trembling. Black veins spiderwebbed up her forearms, pulsing in time with the unnatural rhythm beneath them.

Kael tried to speak, but his voice came out a broken rasp. "What—?"

"The moment you touched the Shard," Lucian growled, hauling him upright, "it fractured reality. We're trapped between timelines."

Aurelia's head snapped up, her eyes now completely black—no whites, no irises, just endless void. When she spoke, her voice layered with something ancient and terrible:

Kael recoiled. This wasn't Aurelia. Not entirely.

Lucian's grip on his arm tightened. "Whatever you saw in that vision—"

"It was real," Kael interrupted, his stomach churning. "Aurelia's not just connected to the earth. She is—"

"Don't." Aurelia—or the thing wearing her face—rose fluidly, her movements too graceful to be human. The black veins had spread to her throat. "Names have power here."

The ground beneath them shuddered violently. Cracks split open, revealing glimpses of other moments—other possibilities:

—Lucian standing over Kael's corpse, his sword dripping black blood—

—Aurelia wearing the Veil leader's bone mask, her smile sharp as a blade—

—The world burning beneath a sky full of screaming stars—

Kael's head throbbed. "We have to get out of here."

"No." Aurelia tilted her head, listening to something only she could hear. "We have to go deeper."

Before Kael could protest, she grabbed his wrist—and the world folded around them

Chapter 63: The Fractured Timelines