Chapter 241

Audrey

When I woke, I found myself in bed back at the apartment. Edwin was stroking my hair, a worried look etched into his face as he stared down at me.

“Oh, good. You’re awake,” he said, his voice soft when my eyes fluttered open. “You had me worried there for a bit.”

I groaned softly and tried to push myself up to a seated position, but it was no use. My arms trembled beneath my weight and I flopped back against the pillows. “I feel… drained,” I croaked.

Edwin shook his head and lifted a glass of water to my lips. I drank deeply, grateful for the soothing sensation as it poured down my dry throat.

“That’s because you are drained,” he replied, a somewhat scolding tone to his voice. “You used up just about every last drop of your Silver Star powers.”

He didn’t need to tell me twice for me to realize that he was right. That silvery pool of energy inside of me felt nearly entirely empty now, save for whatever was necessary to keep me breathing.

Even my wolf was weak and tired. When I reached for her presence, she didn’t respond; she was just resting, but too

calls. exhausted to answer my

“Oh,” I said. “I guess I went a little far, didn’t I?”

My mate huffed softly at that as he set aside the glass and helped prop me up on some pillows. I was wearing one of his oversized t-shirts now, indicating that he must have changed me out of my dirty clothes himself while I was unconscious.

“You can say that again,” he remarked wryly. “Audrey, you didn’t need to heal all of those kids. Not in one night, at least. You’re honestly lucky you passed out before you drained your entire life force.”

the inside of my cheek as I thought back on those moments before I had gone unconscious. I recalled healing Ivy, seing her pallid face warm up beneath my touch. Her little smile had awakened something deep inside of

couldn’t just heal one and

dying of cancer in the world. Some are dying even as we speak. Do you

course I know that it’s physically impossible for me to heal everyone. But when I see an opportunity in front of me, I’m going to take it. You can’t really fault me for that, can

head and an incredulous chuckle, he said, “You’re

it was laced with a healthy dose of scolding. We both knew that I went

necessary.

my voice softer now, “now that I’m the Silver Star, it’s sort of my duty to help people like that, isn’t

to, you know. It’s not your ‘duty. You’re still a person on

I thought back on those moments

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bite and I had finally, truly, become

had washed over me during those moments. The

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quietly. “All this time, I felt like I needed to cling to

dispelling the tears that were beginning to p****k at the corners of my eyes. “But Audrey was never going to go anywhere. My soul has always been the Silver Star-throughout every incarnation, every lifetime. And yet, the Silver Star cannot exist without the

spoke those words, I knew that they were true. ‘Audrey’ was never at risk of

Silver Star who was at risk of being stripped away if

“I think I’m ready to let that

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