CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT
My heart is filled with a broken pain that I can’t breathe past.
They showed up.
But they showed up too late.
I’ve lost everything.
Damien isn’t breathing.
I pull out the spears one by one, ignoring the presence of the beings, tears falling down my face, my chest so tight with pain that I think it will burst.
I can’t feel our mating bond!
Oh, God! I can’t feel him anymore!
The wail that rips from my throat at the realization that he’s left me all alone is a terrifying sound.
The earth begins to shake as my grief grows out of control. These powers, these abilities, they’re useless to me!
My heart is tearing out of my chest in my madness, the ground shaking.
Let it all burn!
Let them all die!
‘Child.’
The voice echoes in my head again and this time I look at those beings, my face ravaged with the tears of a broken woman.
‘You cannot destroy these realms.’