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.”

pallid face warm up beneath my touch. Her little smile had awakened something deep inside of me, and I hadn’t been able to stop myself from healing

just heal one and leave the

millions of children dying of cancer in the world. Some are dying even as

when

shake of his head and an

need to. I could feel his approval down the bond, even if it was laced with

necessary.

softer now, “now that I’m the Silver Star, it’s sort of my duty to help people

up. “You don’t have to, you know. It’s not your ‘duty. You’re still a person on your own, not a

know. But I think…” I thought back on those moments in

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bite and I had finally, truly, become one with my

washed over me during those moments. The

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time, I felt like I needed to cling to ‘Audrey’, because

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

were true. ‘Audrey’ was never at risk of

risk of being stripped

Star now,” I finished. “I think I’m ready to let that part of myself emerge. I’m not afraid of it

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