Chapter 145 AURORA I fout him , my mind pulling back from everything this creature was , everything it wanted from me .

But he leaned over me , grinned , and inhaled .

Black smoke rose from my chest and curled into a ball of black obsidian that hung between us , like a dark mirror image of the pearl pendant that had channeled my power as a healer .

I felt my heart start to turn cold as one by one , my memories of the good things in my life began to wink out like dying stars .

Evanders easy smile .

Trajans steadying voice .

Dane kissing me .

Dane … My children laughing as I read them a story .

It was all slipping away .

No ! I cried .

I tried to fight him , to hold on , but it was like water slipping through my fingers .

My heart screamed for what I was losing and started to freeze .

Chapter 145 At the same time , memories of my life as a young woman in Broken Forest were revealed .

The Reeds twisting my mind as a little girl , corrupting me , forcing me to believe that the only way I could be worthy and loved was to embrace loss , pain , and the dark .

Tha .

s what the Nameless wanted from me .

To be his beacon of pain .

To spread it across the world .

I had to fight .

Desperately , I flung my mind , and my heart out , searching for an anchor .

Something to hold just a small part of me .

There was no moon tonight , only darkness outside the windows .

And yet … I suddenly felt the smallest touch of … something … and a voice whispered , Even in the darkest times , I am here .

I grasped that power .

It was all I needed .

my big , dark gray wolf body at the head of my

forest whipped by as we surged

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

lost Aurora already , I Chapter 145 3/5 couldnt lose my sister

get to her in time

My paw caught on

stumbled and my head slammed into a

blinked , and suddenly I wasnt in the terrible

, overlooking a wide lake

were blue with coming evening

golden with autumn

I spun

It was Dane .

ran down the hill toward me and caught me

face against his

believe it , but he looked and felt and smelled so real , so good

Like himself .

face was grim , but he lifted

Thanks to you .

? I dont know , I- My gaze caught on the sky just above the

was much larger than it

145 But that didnt make any

the new moon right now

to be completely dark

give you much ,

happening to you only you can

can give you

to cling

moment of

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

years ahead will be dark … The voice

Danes

was the

mean , years ?

in his arms ,

been through so

do what she wanted and free the relic but found shadows

not have heard the

him

my hand to his cheek

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