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 .

ran in my big , dark gray wolf body

nighttime forest whipped by as we surged downhill through trees

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

, I Chapter 145 3/5 couldnt lose my sister

get to her in

My paw caught on a root

head slammed into

AURORA I blinked , and suddenly I wasnt in the terrible , cold palace

wide lake in the middle of thick woods

sky were blue with

were golden

? I

It was Dane .

down the hill toward me and caught

face against his chest

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

Like himself .

youre alive ? His face was grim , but he lifted the

Thanks to you .

My gaze caught on the sky just above the trees

much larger than it was supposed to be

that didnt make

new moon right now

supposed to be

cannot give you much , a feminine

whats happening to you only

I can give you one

cling

of

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

ahead will be dark … The

met Danes

the goddess

mean ,

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

through so

to do what she wanted and free the relic

we have to deal with more ? Another person might not have heard the anguish hidden in the powerful

knew him

raised my hand to his cheek

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