By the time Eros reached the inner ruins, the mountain no longer sounded alive. It sounded wounded.Stone groaned beneath the weight of collapsing tunnels while ancient magic flickered through broken walls like dying stars. Blood covered the path behind him. Some belonged to enemies. Some belonged to wolves who followed him into hell without hesitation. None of it mattered anymore.Only her.That single thought had consumed everything else hours ago.The second he realized Freya was gone, something inside him stopped functioning the way it should. Logic disappeared first. Restraint followed after. By the time they reached the mountain, he had already accepted one truth with terrifying clarity.If she died in this place, nobody inside it would survive him.Dylan caught up beside him through the smoke filled corridor, breathing unevenly after the last fight. “The lower ruins are collapsing.”Eros kept walking.“There are too many barriers,” another warrior warned behind them. “This plac
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