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 .

wolf body at the head of my newly enlarged pack back to

whipped by as we surged downhill through

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

I Chapter 145 3/5 couldnt lose my

to her in time

caught on a

my head

and suddenly I wasnt in the terrible , cold palace with

hill , overlooking a wide lake in the middle of thick woods

lake and sky were

were golden

I

It was Dane .

the hill toward me and caught

pressed my face

it , but he looked and

Like himself .

His face was grim , but he lifted the pearl pendant I had dropped near

Thanks to you .

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

larger than it

145 But that didnt make any

was the new

was supposed to

give you much , a feminine voice

happening to

can give

cling to

moment of hope

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

will be dark

met Danes

was the goddess

mean ,

arms ,

so

tried to do what she wanted and free the relic but found shadows

person might not have heard the anguish

knew him

hand to his cheek

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