Chapter 142

Skylar

The need to prevent Aron from raping me in the future is too strong, and I jump over him while in my wolf form. He falls down on his back, eyes. widened with fear as his eyes meet mine.

At this time, he isn’t the cold–blooded person I met as a child, but a teenage boy who has not yet committed the atrocities of his future self. Still, my heart hardens at the sight of him, for I know the monster he will become.

“Skylar… that’s your name, right?” he whispers, eyes filled with terror and confusion. “Don’t kill me…”

Jinx’s pleas echo in my mind, but I push them away. This is my choice and my future I’m changing. I open my mouth, ready to tear him apart, but freeze when I hear Lucas‘ voice coming from behind me.

“If you want him dead, go ahead. I won’t stop you. Just remember that you’re sinking down to his level, Skylar. I know what he did to you. It was terrible and something you will never truly recover from, but don’t you think it all worked out in the end, anyway? You’re with me now.”

‘I know,’ I respond through the mind–link. ‘But if this man didn’t ruin me, I wouldn’t have rejected you the first time we met, Lucas. We wouldn’t have to suffer!*

…but is killing him truly the answer? You could just threaten him, you

know.

I snarl, my mind consumed with the thirst for vengeance. How dare he suggest threatening a monster who will grow up to ruin countless lives! Yet… I can’t ignore the whisper of reason in his words.

‘He is also your mate, Skylar,‘ Jinx reminds me in a soft voice. ‘Lucas. doesn’t mean you any harm. If you kill Aron, however, there is no telling. what will happen to the future you built…hell, we don’t even know how it

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changed with this little

hover just inches from Aron’s throat,

my nose, triggering another wave of uncontrolled rage. His eyes beg for mercy. What shall

light has died down now, leaving him as his normal human self again – albeit with wings. “Think about this.”

wouldn’t make me any better than him. But the thought of leaving him alive after everything he will

since everything ended. ‘I…can’t kill him. I want

meets mine, understanding washing over his handsome features. For a moment, we just stand

eventually, I can’t stand it. I want to hug him so badly that I shape- shift back into a human and run

  1. me.

into a gentle. embrace. His angel wings

back,” I tell him. “Can

don’t see why not,” he says. “We are done

to take us back to our time. A portal opens underneath us, and suddenly, we are back

immediately notice that the light is back, and the eternal darkness is

and I turn around to see him and my

blink at them. “Did…something

talking about, but I see that you took care of Lucian. It’s no longer

“What?”

the well, and I’m proud to say

Mom. She’s glowing, her

“I’m so proud of you for having defeated that terrible demon all on

threatened to consume my thoughts. We’ve won. There’s no longer darkness hanging over our heads, no prophecy of doom waiting to snatch

squeezes my hand. “I’m proud of you, too,” he says

into him. “We did

in my chest, a thought nags at

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