Chapter 108: Into the Heart of Shadows

Cameron’s POV The weight of the kingdom’s fate seemed to press down on me more with every passing day. The more I attempted to limit the pandemonium, the more the soil itself seemed to revolt, as if the earth were rejecting us. The tremors were becoming terrible, and even my most loyal warriors were starting to show indications of worry. But there was no time to surrender into it. There was no time to back down. Malakar’s influence had grown too far, and if we didn’t act swiftly, we would lose everything. I sat in the battle room, the flickering candlelight creating long shadows across the stone walls, my thoughts wrapped in a web of confusion. The cult’s growing influence, the madness creeping into the wolves—nothing felt certain anymore. I had never felt so weak, so small in the face of something this ancient, this awful. The pressure was enormous, and I couldn’t do it alone. The heavy door to the battle room groaned open, and I looked up to see Emilia and Ivana coming,