All Chapters of The Beast's Bride: surrendering to the beast within : Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

The Dream Sofia stood in the middle of an endless field, bathed in the eerie glow of the blood moon. The grass beneath her feet was cold and wet, darkened with something she didn’t want to name. A suffocating silence pressed in around her, thick and unnatural. Then, a whisper. At first, it was faint, drifting on the wind like a forgotten memory. But as it grew louder, the voice became clearer—hauntingly familiar yet impossible to place. “You were never meant to survive this.” A chill ran down Sofia’s spine. She turned in slow, hesitant steps, searching for the source, but the field stretched on endlessly, empty and hollow. Then she saw it. A figure stood at the edge of the horizon, shrouded in darkness, its presence unsettling and unnatural. The shadows clung to it, shifting and curling like living things. It had no face, yet she felt its eyes—cold, piercing, knowing—boring into her soul. Sofia tried to move, to run, but her body wouldn’t obey. “You are the key to

Her breath caught, her pulse hammering against her ribs. She pressed a hand to her mark, as if she could silence whatever was stirring beneath her skin. The sensation was fleeting, gone as quickly as it came, but it left behind an unsettling emptiness—as though something had just awoken inside her and was waiting for the right moment to take hold. She shook her head, pushing the thought away. This was exhaustion, stress—nothing more. At least, that’s what she told herself. The drive to Damien’s ancestral home was silent, heavy with unspoken thoughts. The further they traveled, the deeper they ventured into unfamiliar territory. The towering city skyline faded into the distance, swallowed by dense, ancient woods that stretched endlessly in every direction. And then, it appeared. Damien’s ancestral home loomed before them, an imposing structure of dark stone and ivy that seemed to breathe with the history of his kind. The air was thick with the scent of pine and earth, the fores