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 at the head of my newly enlarged pack back to the pack

whipped by as we surged downhill through

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

145 3/5 couldnt lose my sister

get to

paw caught on a root

head slammed

blinked , and suddenly I wasnt in the terrible

a hill , overlooking a wide lake in the middle of

lake and sky were blue

were golden

? I spun

It was Dane .

toward me and caught me in his arms

pressed my face against his chest

he looked and felt

Like himself .

… youre alive ? His face was grim , but he lifted the pearl pendant I had dropped near

Thanks to you .

are we ? I dont know , I- My gaze caught on the sky just above

it was supposed to be

But that didnt make any

the new moon

was supposed to be completely

much ,

to you only you

can give you one

to cling to

of

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

ahead will be dark … The voice faded

met Danes

the

did she mean ,

arms ,

so

to do what she wanted and free the relic but found

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

knew him so well

hand

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