Chapter 99

• Guests indulged in their pleasures—admiring the beauty of the evening, sipping fine wine, and reveling in the opulence surrounding them.
• Yet amidst all this, Alora found herself strangely detached. Her luminous eyes wandered the room, her soft smile fading as a faint unease began to creep into her heart, she was in a fight with herself to be here.
• And then she heard it—a small, clear voice cutting through the din of the party like a silver thread in the dark.