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 .

in my big , dark gray wolf body at the

as we surged downhill

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

lost Aurora already , I Chapter 145

to

Dane … ! My paw caught on a root at

stumbled and my head slammed

wasnt in the terrible , cold palace with the

a hill , overlooking a wide

and sky were blue with coming evening

trees were golden with

? I spun

It was Dane .

toward me and caught me

my face

it , but he looked and felt

Like himself .

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

Thanks to you .

gaze caught on the sky just above the trees , where a round ,

much larger than it was supposed

145 But that

new

was supposed to be

, a feminine

stop whats happening to you only

I can give

cling

of hope

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

be dark … The voice faded

met Danes

was the

she mean , years

me in his arms ,

so fucking much

we ? We tried to do what she wanted and free the relic but found shadows instead

might not have heard the anguish hidden in the

him so well

raised my hand to his

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