And I’ll do it again.
I thought I could control this…power, but I can’t.
Yes, you can.
The words come from a distant voice. It might be Wolf, but the flicker of hope is snuffed out. I try to sort through the confusion, but my mind is a mess I can’t navigate.
“Come with me, my dear,” the cloaked man says, one arm extended as if offering a courtesy. “I’ll show you how to live as you were always meant to, and you’ll never know hurt again.”
His words are honey over a blade. They pull, soft and sure. I want to fight them. This is wrong, but I can’t.
All I can do is check on my family once more. I take asigh of relief that I can feel more confident based on the heartbeats that I haven’t killed them. Not like some of the others.
They’ll survive this. I know that now.
But I won’t. Not with the darkness building in me.
Even if it might be wrong, I can’t stop my next decision. It’s the only one that my mind is making sense of. I know what I have to do, even if it means losing everything I’ve been fighting to keep.
I take the stranger’s hand.
Chapter 31
CADE
Who the fuck was that?
Rowan barely looked my way before going with that monster. She just took his offered hand and disappeared into darkness.
Worse, I’d been helpless, unable to move, to stop her.
The yard is a nightmare, the air still thick with the burn of her power. I should be grateful we survived, but all I can taste is ash.
Rowan is mine.Mymate. And I’ll tear down every supernatural, every council, every cloaked bastard in existence to bring her back.
No matter what it costs.
