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 head of my newly enlarged

forest whipped by as we surged downhill through trees

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

145 3/5 couldnt lose my

to her in time

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

head slammed

wasnt in the terrible , cold palace with the

wide lake in the middle of thick woods

sky were blue with

trees were golden with autumn

? I spun

It was Dane .

ran down the hill toward me and caught me in his

face

he looked and felt and

Like himself .

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

Thanks to you .

caught on the sky just above the trees , where a round , white moon hung

larger than it

145 But that didnt make any

the new moon

sky was supposed to be completely dark

much ,

happening to

give you one

cling

moment of hope

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

dark …

Danes dark eyes

was the goddess

she mean , years ?

arms , and they tightened around me

through so fucking much

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

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

knew him so

hand to his

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