All Chapters of The Moon Choose Him, I Didn´t : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

(Aria’s POV) Silence.Not real silence.The kind that comes after destruction.Heavy.Ringing.Endless.My body ached.Every breath burned.Slowly, I opened my eyes.Darkness surrounded me.Stone.Dust.Broken wood.The archives had collapsed.For a second, I couldn’t remember what happened.Then—Kael.Adrian.The fracture.I sat up too quickly.Pain shot through my chest instantly.“Kael?”No answer.Panic hit immediately.“Kael!”A low groan echoed somewhere nearby.Relief slammed into me so hard my knees weakened.“I’m here.”His voice.Rough.Painfully strained.I crawled toward the sound through the darkness.The moment my fingers touched him—the bond surged violently.But different this time.Weak.Unsteady.My breath caught.Something was wrong.(Kael’s POV) Everything hurts.But the moment she touched me—that stopped mattering.The bond feels damaged.Not broken.Worse.Unstable.I forced myself upright slowly, ignoring the sharp pain tearing through my shoulder.Aria was

(Aria’s POV) The growl beneath the floor didn’t sound animal.It sounded old.Ancient.The cracked stone beneath us trembled again, silver light spilling through the fractures like something alive trying to crawl upward.My mark burned violently.I gasped and grabbed my chest.“It’s reacting to you,” Kael said immediately.No kidding.The pain intensified.Not random.Not chaotic.Calling.Something beneath us was calling to me.And the terrifying part?A piece of me wanted to answer.(Kael’s POV) This cannot be happening.Not now.Not after the fracture started.The seal beneath the archives should still be dormant.Unless—No.I looked sharply toward the guardian.“What woke it?”The creature’s silver eyes shifted slowly toward Aria.“The heir.”Damn it.(Aria’s POV) I was getting really tired of that word.“Heir to what?” I snapped.Another violent tremor shook the ruins.Stone collapsed nearby.Adrian grabbed my arm instantly, pulling me away before debris crashed where I had b

(Aria’s POV) “Elarys.”The name slammed into me like a blade.Pain exploded behind my eyes.Not physical pain.Recognition.The world tilted violently around me as the name echoed through my mind again and again.Elarys.Elarys.ELARYS.My knees buckled.Kael tried to move toward me—but he couldn’t.The strange force holding him and Adrian frozen still lingered in the air.The creature smiled softly.“There you are.”My breathing became ragged.“No…”But the denial felt weak.Because deep inside—something answered to that name.(Kael’s POV) Move.Damn it, move.Every muscle in my body strained violently against whatever power this thing was using to hold us in place.But it wasn’t physical.It was older.Ancient binding.And worst of all—Aria was reacting to it.No.Not Aria.Elarys.The name twisted something deep inside me.Because I knew it.I had heard it before.Long ago.In forbidden stories.(Adrian’s POV) No no no—Not that name.Anything but that.My chest tightened vio

(Aria’s POV) “Elarys…”The broken voice echoed from the darkness below me.Soft.Ancient.Familiar.My breath came in sharp gasps as Kael held onto my hand desperately, his grip tightening every time loose stones crumbled beneath him.“Hold on,” he growled.Pain ripped through the bond between us.Weak.Fractured.Straining.Below me—silver eyes glowed in the darkness.Watching.Waiting.And the voice called again.“Elarys… come home.”Something inside me responded.Not consciously.Instinctively.The pull toward the darkness intensified.Kael felt it immediately.His expression darkened in horror.“No.”(Kael’s POV) She’s responding to it.Damn it.I tightened my grip harder despite the pain tearing through my arm.“Aria, look at me.”Her silver eyes lifted slowly toward mine.Too distant.Too drawn toward whatever waited below.“Stay with me.”The bond pulsed weakly.For one terrifying second—I felt her slipping away.Not physically.Mentally.Emotionally.Like the darkness bene

(Aria’s POV) They knew.That was the first thing I noticed.Not shock.Not confusion.Fear.Kael and Adrian both looked at the First Heir like they had been terrified of this moment for a very long time.My pulse pounded violently.“You knew what she meant.”Silence.Of course.Rage surged instantly.“Stop doing that!”Silver light burst violently through the underground chamber.The chains around the First Heir rattled loudly.She smiled.“There she is.”I hated the way she said that.Like she knew me better than I knew myself.(Kael’s POV) She’s destabilizing again.Damn it.The fracture is already too deep for this conversation.But there’s no stopping it now.Not after the First Heir recognized her fully.Aria turned toward me sharply.“What does she mean by first life?”My jaw tightened.Wrong answer.Because she noticed immediately.“You know.”(Aria’s POV) My chest hurt.Not from the fracture this time.From betrayal.Again.Always betrayal.“What am I?” I whispered.The Fir