Chapter 334: Love under the moonlight.

Lyla

"Does it have anything to do with my babies?" I asked, staring at both of them.

Nanny and Terra exchanged knowing looks, but they didn't say anything.

"What?" I asked.

As they didn't say anything. Horror dawned on me as I understood. "My babies. He wants my babies."

"Not both of them," Nanny corrected. "Just one. The one who carries shadow magic, the echo of what his child would have been. He could make himself whole again with that power, breaking the curse and gaining unlimited power."

My arms wrapped protectively around my stomach. "How could he possibly know about my pregnancy? It's just you and Terra who know and…" I stopped, as I realised. "Lenny. He sensed it and must have reported to the Dark One."

"I think so. Lenny is more than he appears," Terra agreed. "But that's a conversation for another time. He doesn't pose a threat."

Nanny reached for my hands. "Lyla, listen to me. The reason I've kept all this from you is that the choice you face is unbearable. To defeat the Dark One permanently, you must use your true Moonsinging power—channelled through your pheromones—during the twin moons rising."

"And what will that do to me?" I asked, sensing the worst was yet to come.

"It will require a sacrifice," she whispered, tears filling her eyes. "Either your life... or one of your children."

The room seemed to tilt around me. "No," I said, rising again. "That's not a choice. That's a nightmare."

"That's why I wanted to spare you this knowledge," Nanny pleaded. "I hoped we might find another way."

"There is no other way," Terra stated flatly. "The cycle must be broken. A life of divine blood must be given willingly to balance what Neriah disrupted centuries ago."

I paced furiously as my mind raced. "I won't sacrifice my children. And I won't leave them motherless either."

want them," Terra smirked. "You

glare at her, Nanny touched her hand, and

that I didn't see you dying, Lyla. Did I see the war? Yes. It was the first thing I told your mother when she returned from the human world. There will be war. People will die, packs will

sacrifice my babies. Any of them."

continue to return, generation after

pacing and turned to face them both. "You said my power channels through my pheromones. What exactly

say Neriah could create and destroy with a song. She could transform reality itself. But each use of that power corrupted

destiny?" I asked bitterly. "To choose between corruption, death, or sacrificing my

said quietly. "That's why I've told you everything—so you can make your choice with full knowledge, not blindly as

any

"No," Terra answered."

Ramsey, of how desperately I'd wanted to tell him about the babies just moments ago. How would he react to all of this? Would he try to protect and stop me from

any of this.

shrugged. "You're not

"Lyla—" Nanny began.

I saw the pain in her eyes. "I'm not angry at you, not really. I understand why you did it. But this is my

toward the door,

are you

pray, to go for a run, anything. I need to understand my power better if I'm going

might not be

looked back at her as I felt something hardening inside me. "Maybe not. But my children deserve a mother who tried everything before giving up. And I deserve a life I

welled in

to die!" I choked. "I want to live. I feel like I've spent the better part of my life fighting

stepped into the hallway, I felt different—heavier with knowledge, yet somehow more certain of myself. Divine blood or not, I was still Lyla. Still a

somehow find a way to save everyone I loved, including

my mind reeled with everything I'd learned. Divine blood. Twin children. A terrible sacrifice on the horizon. I was so lost in thought that I nearly collided with someone waiting in the

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