The Syndicater (Dark Verse, #6)

by RuNyx

"Someone had kept him captive in the warehouse in Gladestone for a while, can't say exactly how long. He was tortured and was alive when the fire started. That tells me someone else wanted him more than we did. Could it be someone from The Syndicate?"

i cant wait for lyla to show up and put the pieces together for themAHHHH

She would be okay. They would be okay. There would be a rainbow beyond this, or the world would become too dark.

It wasn't just an image. It was a statement. The Shadow Man. Luna. Lovers. He was her lover. Holy shit.

girl righ ahhh

"But only I have met Dainn." She loved that. "And only you will, flamma," he promised. "I will become whatever I have to for everyone else. Not for you. For you, I am as I am, every damaged, deranged part of me."

*sobbing*

"I might not be going with you, but I spent six years being your shadow. I will not miss you because I will be watching you."

And all I see—" he held her hand, bringing it up to his lips "—is a woman who owns the world in her small, soft, sexy little hands and doesn't even know it."

"Because you're my flame, a little source of light and warmth in a void full of darkness and death, small but capable of becoming an inferno with the right fuel. And though I was always full of dark and death, for you, I have embraced it, become it, so you can keep flickering without fear. I am the void all monsters fear so you never have to be scared of anything. Not with me."

sooo this book will be the cause of my death....

Morana would have killed them or died trying if any of them even looked at the boy she thought of as her son now.

oh boy... this will be interesting

Tears escaped his eyes, for the first time in a long time, and her arms tightened around him. His baby sister. Finally.

Every time someone had broken her as a child, as a teen, as a young adult, before Dainn had found her, she had craved the arms of a brother that would protect her, dying on the inside when they didn't come.

"That's not true. I was a baby but I don't think I came from a gift of love."

omggg this actually broke my heart, the kid wouldnt know but he knows

"I know," Zephyr told him. "Why does that make you wish it's a girl?" "So Tempest can have her sister, even if it's a cousin."

awwww they really.helped this kid so much im in tears

To someone on the outside, it could look like love, but it was so much more nuanced, so much more intense, so much more. Saying that he loved her was as basic as saying that he was living because his heart beat in his chest. Living was so much more than that, life was so much more than just that, and it was something he had learned just by being with her.

Meltinggg

The Shadow Man. He was perfect in every way, except for one little thing. A weakness, a leverage so obvious that it could be used to defeat him, an Achilles heel he had exposed to all of them. The girl.

i dont know who u are but kindly fuck off :) thaank youuu

"How did you give her your gift?" A voice asked from the back, and Dante looked in the rearview mirror to see Xander looking out the window.

oh nooo herewe go hahah poor dante and alpha they have no clue what zee did hahah

Tristan was going to murder him, but what the hell. "Well, when you talk to him about it, maybe you should suggest he do it correctly. He might not be delivering the gift properly."

ive never laughed so hard hahabab

He had entered through the space but rewired the circuit to make sure no one else could. He wouldn't have cared for trespassers if his flamma hadn't been in the mansion.

i thought tristan and morana was my favoite... i think im becoming more obessed with dainn and lyla... oops

And Amara felt her heart fill with wonder at having four girls she could call friends now when once she'd had none. Morana, who sat beside her, gripped her hand, exchanging a look with her that told her she was thinking the same thing. They'd met as friendless, lonely people and found a family with each other.

sobbing again ahhh

"I love him."

YOU FUCKIN GO GIRLL AHHHH

"You want me to explain how he found me, in that dark as an empty husk and breathed life back into me? You want me to explain how me protected me for years? How he saved me from others and from myself for years? How he searched for each shard of my shattered soul with patience, piece after piece, until I felt healed? How he led you to me?"

im not crying. im not crying....

"Yes, Morana. He found you because he was looking for my past. He doesn't give a shit about anything else, no offense. Everything he has done for years has been for me." She pointed at herself. "And if he'd wanted, you never would have found me. I would have lived without knowing my past, and so would you."

yessss queennnnn

"So, he's a good guy?" Dante voiced. His sister chuckled, the sound dry. "Oh no. He couldn't be who he is if he was. He's the monster monsters fear, the devil of his own kingdom. But he's my devil. And only good to me, now to you, because I asked him to be."

im official not okay. its soooo goooddddd

And with one woman he loved beside him, having found the other who had been lost, Tristan finally felt whole.

we all crying in the club right now ahhh im gonna need a minute

Morana felt proud of her, not just for surviving but for standing strong.

yesss me too

And the last one was a twenty-four-year-old married woman. Lyla Blackthorne.

my fucking morana always finding the answers ahhhhhh

Alpha put his phone on speaker as well. "What's happening, Victor?" Victor was silent for a beat. "Her mother… killed him."

IM SORRY WHAGTTTTY

Morana was driving back to the compound when suddenly, the numbness that had been perpetual in her left arm began to spread to her right. She tried to move her limbs and steer the wheel to the side of the road but her muscles were slowly going lax, the numbness spreading from her fingers to her wrists to her elbows to her shoulders and up her neck to her face.

NO NO NO DONT DO THIS TO ME

And then, to her absolute shock, Chiara pressed a button, and a man walked in with Tristan. Her Tristan and not some random Tristan off the street. What the fuck?

WHAT IS GOING ON HELPPP

The siblings weren't related by blood. The sister Tristan had loved and looked for all his life had never biologically been his.

STOP

She was going to call herself Lyna if she made it out alive.

"lyna" SOBBING

All he knew was that if she'd had his unending loyalty before, now there was no force in this entire universe that could keep him from her. He was now a devotee and she his religion.

this man omgggg

On a bright morning, right on the land where the sea met the shore in Shadow Port, Morana walked down the aisle to the man she loved, ready to become a Caine.

FINALLYYYYYY

It would return some days, but there was one truth she had learned. The grays never lasted forever.

tearss

"It ended where it began," he stated. "This is a new era." The end of one era. The beginning of another. And this one was all of theirs.

no one talk to me for the rest of the day thank u