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 pack back to the pack

forest whipped by as we surged downhill

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

, I Chapter 145 3/5 couldnt lose my

had to get to

to Dane … ! My paw caught on a root at the

head slammed

I wasnt in the terrible , cold

was on a hill , overlooking a wide lake

were blue with

were golden with autumn leaves

? I

It was Dane .

the hill toward me and caught me in his

my face

he looked and felt and smelled so real , so good

Like himself .

he lifted the pearl pendant I had dropped near his hand

Thanks to you .

caught on the sky just above the trees , where a

was much larger than it was supposed to

that didnt make any

new moon right now

to be completely dark

, a feminine

to

give you

cling

moment of

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

ahead will be dark

met Danes

was the

she mean , years ? he

still held me in his arms , and they tightened around me

been through so fucking

We tried to do

person might not have heard the anguish

knew him so well

my hand to his cheek

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