Outside the restaurant, Ulysses stood frozen, disbelief and dread twisting in his chest. From where he stood, he could see everything: the beautiful illusions of the sea peeling apart and the terror flooding Selvaris's mind as the curse unraveled into something far worse.
The sight left him pale. He'd known Sienna-Rose was strong, but this in front of him is something else entirely. It is something far beyond what he imagined. The sheer power of her magic, the cruelty of it, wasn't just vengeance. It's a judgment.
Previously he wanted to dine in the restaurant with his family and with the Duke of Ironhart, but then he saw the nightmare in front of his eyes. The restaurant had become a sealed world, wrapped in heavy layers of illusion and time magic.
