Chapter 173 – A raw scream
Noah appeared back in the meeting room of the Castle.
The table was already full. All his women were sitting, chatting, laughing, the air almost peaceful for once. But the second his presence touched the room—just a flicker of it—their heads snapped toward him at a speed that cracked the damn air.
CRACKLE—!
"Noah!!" Sophie vanished and appeared in front of him, arms already around his neck, clinging to him like he'd been gone for decades.
Noah laughed softly, hugging her back with the kind of tenderness that somehow still made all the others jealous.
"Do you think this is fair—" Dominique didn't even get the full sentence out.
"Fate of Stillness."
Elizabeth's voice echoed through the room like a divine command. Time and reality itself slowed. She'd frozen Dominique and the rest just long enough to appear beside Noah.
And then—
"Time Freeze." Selene's cold voice rang like a death sentence.
