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 .

! **** DANE I ran in my big , dark gray wolf body at the head of my newly enlarged

whipped by as we

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

Chapter 145 3/5 couldnt lose my

had to get to her

Dane … ! My paw caught on a root at the edge of an outcropping

head slammed into a

wasnt in the terrible

hill , overlooking a wide

lake and sky were blue with coming

were golden with

? I spun

It was Dane .

the hill toward me and caught me in his arms

face against

he looked and felt and smelled so real ,

Like himself .

grim , but he

Thanks to you .

I- My gaze caught on the sky just above the trees , where a round , white moon hung

much larger than it

145 But that didnt make any

the new

supposed to be

cannot give you much ,

happening to you

can give you

cling to

of hope

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

ahead will be dark … The voice

Danes dark

the

she mean , years ?

in his arms

through so

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

not have heard the anguish hidden in

him so well

raised my hand to his

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