Chapter 69

Liam

We found the temple before midnight.

Finding a way inside was another problem.

What remained above ground looked exactly like the abandoned ruin everyone remembered.

Part of the mountainside had collapsed over the old structure years ago. Broken columns lay half buried beneath dirt and roots, sections of wall had fallen inward, and trees grew through what had once been the outer courtyard.

There was no obvious entrance.

Kade stood near the remains of the main stairway, staring at a wall of fallen stone.

“This used to be open.”

“I remember.”

Adrian had brought us here when we were younger.

The temple had been old even then