Chapter 242: The Tears of a Lover

Moana

Edrick’s hand suddenly fell limp. The smile on his face faded as his eyelids fluttered shut, and at that exact moment, I felt my heart shatter into a million pieces.

“No…” I whispered, my throat closing up already. “Edrick?”

He didn’t answer. I felt a sob catch in my throat.

Without thinking, I pressed my hands into his wounds. I heard the flesh and the blood squelch beneath my touch as my vision became clouded with tears.

“Come on,” I said, my voice shaking violently as I pressed harder and tried to focus my energy.

“It’s no use, Moana,” Mina said, sounding full of regret. “I’m sorry. His wounds were too deep.”

I shook my head in disbelief and just pushed harder on Edrick’s wounds. His body shifted beneath my touch, filling me with a false sense of hope that he was still alive. But he wasn’t — he was dead. When I felt his neck, there was no pulse.

There was no containing my grief anymore. As a keening wail started to rumble in my throat, I felt the tears spill out of my eyes and pour down my cheeks.

and fell onto him, sobbing hysterically

There

to go back!” I cried out to Mina. “Let me go back! I don’t want to be here

replied. “You already made the choice to stay in the real world. There’s no way for

and carried across the wind. The birds, which had just been singing as the end of the storm came, now

then, something happened while I cried onto Edrick’s limp body. I thought it was just in my head at first, but when I

felt Edrick’s heart start to beat in his

stammered, looking down earnestly at

Shakily, I leaned back down and placed my ear

moment. I started to lose hope; maybe I

“Moana, I don’t—”

I shushed my wolf and pressed my ear harder into Edrick’s chest. My eyes

another heartbeat. Edrick

pressed my hands into his chest once more. This time, I focused my healing energy with even more passion and squeezed my eyes

about Edrick… Everything that I wanted to see again. His smile, his laugh, the feeling of his warm arms around me. His face, red with embarrassment when the kids teased his artwork. The way that his chest rose

I felt my power surge. I almost felt sick from it, but

“M-Moana…”

see it now; I could see the color returning to his face. I could see

was too much. I needed to get him to a point where I could

the weakness and nausea that took over me from using this much energy to heal him, I pushed a little harder. I could see Edrick’s

though. I

leaning down to him and cupping his face in my hands, “I’m going to take you back to the mansion on my back, in my wolf form.

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