Contract Marriage With Alpha Snow novel Chapter 507

Chapter 507: Where Am I?

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Chapter 507

~Zara’s POV~

The bars stretched high into the sky, sharp like fangs, each one humming faintly with dark energy.

Beyond it, I saw nothing but shadow.

Shadow until a woman stepped out from behind the gate—a slender figure, no older than her mid-twenties. Her long, dark hair was pinned back tightly, and her eyes were flat and unreadable.

She didn’t say a word. She just turned and walked.

And again, I followed.

The path curved through more dead earth, flanked by gnarled roots and stone lanterns that flickered with blue flames.

The farther I walked, the heavier my chest became. The ache started low and grew deeper, clawing at my ribs and pressing behind my eyes.

I felt sick, not physically but in my soul and then I saw it.

Another gate. It was smaller than the first but thicker, reinforced with dark stone and blackened silver lining its curves.

Painted across it in smeared, chalky white letters—stark and cold—were the words:

SHADOW CLAVE

I stopped walking altogether as my breath hitched and my fingers trembled. That was the first time my body truly obeyed me as the fear and the adrenaline all at once... fittedinto one—into me.

The very place and people who wanted me dead wanted my powers for themselves and would go to any length to get it.

And now I was here.

Dragged by my own hands.

With no idea why or... if I would ever come back, go back to Snow, my mate.

Just the thought brought tears to my eyes.

I watched as they led me past the second gate, the one with Shadow Clave scrawled across it like a warning carved into bone.

The metal hissed as it opened, and the air beyond it shifted. It was all cold, damp and tainted.

The moment I stepped across the threshold, I felt something crawl up my spine—something unseen, like a fog that wasn’t fog but heavy nonetheless.

I was walking into a world that had long forgotten light.

The landscape inside was bleak—ash-colored ground cracked in patches like dried skin.

A dark dome stood at the far center of the compound, looming like a heart that no longer beat.

Its walls pulsed faintly like it was alive with enchantments far older than anything I had ever studied.

And there, standing just outside the dome’s massive iron entrance, arms crossed and smile as sharp as ever, was Vera.

I stopped in my tracks. My chest tightened. This wa sthe second time my body had moved on its own accord much to my disappointment.

But that was the least of my worries as the memories rushed back like a storm breaking through a dam.

"Is this killing you inside, Zara?" Her mental whisper slid in smooth, dripping with venom. "To be here, in my world, powerless? After everything?"

I kept my expression blank, but inside I was thrashing. "You’ll never win. Not even now."

"Oh, but haven’t I already?" she crooned. "You’re here, alone. Snow’s probably tearing apart his estate, thinking you left him. But I know the truth. You didn’t want to leave. You wanted to stay. To love him. Be his Luna. Bear his heir."

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