Chapter 75

In disbelief and numb with emotion, I approached the precipice of the towering cliff, my eyes drawn to the jagged rocks below where furious waves crashed relentlessly against the sheer rock face. It was a dizzying drop, easily fifty to a hundred meters. The wind was thick with the tang of salt and the roar of the ocean below.

Ferdinand turned into a wolf and with a decisive motion, bit Xander's neck and leapt off the cliff edge. Yet I couldn't see their bodies below. My mother, witnessing this, stood at the brink, her tears flowing as she screamed Ferdinand's name in a heart-wrenching plea.

Panic erupted among the shadow soldiers. They were frantically calling to their leader through the radio, their voices sounding unbelieving about the incident, "Ferdinand took Xander and jumped off the cliff!"

The memory of Xander's smile, so serene and unsettling, flashed before me. I recalled vividly how Ferdinand had bitten into his neck, a moment that seemed to freeze my emotions, leaving me fe