Eternal Glow

Ayliz Vala had never had time for fear. In her family, fear was for the weak, and the weak didn't last long.

She had learned to survive amid secrets and fake smiles, to read every glance. Every decision, every word, every gesture. Everything had to be calculated.

However, no matter how hard she tried, there were things she couldn't control. Like that night.

The night her world changed.

She didn't remember all the details, but she did remember the weight of the silence, the distant sound of glasses clinking at a party, and then... the scream. A scream so heart-wrenching that it seemed to have cut off her breath. It was at that moment, in front of her sister Dilara's terrified eyes, that she understood the truth: her family was not only powerful, it was also broken.

And then he appeared.

"Ayliz," said a voice in the shadows. Deep, calm, dangerous. Her heart stopped when she recognized it, but she didn't dare turn around. Because she knew what that voice meant.

It meant destruction.

And perhaps, for the first time in her life, it also meant something else.