Chapter 527 - CHAPTER 527 — The Alpha Who Couldn't Reach Her part 2

For several seconds after the crimson barrier appeared, nobody in the eastern wing dared to move. Alessandro stood on one side of the luminous boundary while Elara remained on the other, their hands separated by only a few feet and yet the distance felt greater than any battlefield that had ever existed between them. The crimson light moved slowly between them, neither striking nor retreating, and its strange rhythm seemed almost deliberate, as though something ancient were listening to every breath they took. Alessandro's face had become unnaturally still, but Elara knew him well enough to recognise the pain hidden beneath that control; he was not angry that the power had rejected him, nor was he offended by her words, because what frightened him was the possibility that whatever protected her might know something about him that she did not.