Chapter 24 Family Secrets

The cave was alive with tension. Every breath Lila took felt like it could be her last. The walls around them seemed to shift, the air charged with an oppressive force. The symbol on the stone altar pulsed with an eerie light, the key in her hand humming in response, but now everything had changed. Vera stood before them—her eyes hollow, her face twisted in something that was both familiar and terrifying. She wasn’t the Vera they had once trusted. She wasn’t even human anymore. “You should have known, Lila,” Vera’s voice slithered through the darkness, cold and unfamiliar as if the woman standing before them was a mere puppet of something darker. “You think you can stop the curse? Stop the Wolfe bloodline? You’re nothing but a pawn. All of you.”