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

forest whipped by as we

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

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

to get to her

caught on a root at the edge of an

and my head slammed into

wasnt in the terrible

wide lake in the middle

lake and sky were

trees were golden with

? I

It was Dane .

hill toward me and

face

he looked and felt and smelled

Like himself .

alive ? His face was grim , but he lifted the pearl pendant I

Thanks to you .

I dont know , I- My gaze caught on the sky

was much larger than it was

145 But that didnt make any sense

new moon

sky was supposed to be completely

you much , a feminine voice whispered

to you

give you

to cling

of

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

be dark

Danes dark

the

, years ?

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

so fucking much

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

person might not have heard the

knew him so

raised my hand

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