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“And if you can break through it, you can reach her.” Glancing around, he sighed when his eyes
landed on his son. “We’re all dead because we made mistakes. I loved my son, and I tried to
protect him even though he was betraying me. Bridget betrayed you. Katherine and Ragor betrayed Kiana. Evalina betrayed Kiana. Morven and Brock were twisted by their obsession. We’re
all connected, but we’re all dead for very different reasons.”
I swallowed hard. “How do I break through her guilt if I can’t reach her?”
“I never said it was her guilt,” Parker said softly. “I said she was familiar with guilt, but this is your
side of the bond.”
“Bullshit. I have no guilt about killing Ragor and I sure as shit don’t feel guilty that Morven and
Brock are dead.”
“Still a fool.” Parker looked up as Evalina joined us. “You even look like a Crone.”
“And you look like a grizzled werewolf who drinks too damn much,” she snapped. “But he’s right. Troy, you are a fool. When you close your eyes at night, these are the faces that you see. So many deaths in such a short amount of time, and all of them dead so you could protect Kiana. And for what? Soon, everyone will probably be dead.”
“No!” I snarled. “She can fight this. She is more powerful than Claudine!” Worried that someone was going to do something to her, I collected her body and held her close. She was so warm despite the freezing clothes plastered to her skin.
“Is she? She couldn’t even cloak her mating bond properly. Honestly, I’m a little disappointed.”
“Shut your mouth,” Ragor snapped as he joined us. “You never could see her potential. What her magic could do before her mother locked it away. All she had to do was smile, and the flowers would just open for her. She gifted her magic to everything like it might save the world.”
She was still like that. Maybe not with her magic, but just by being. For all her darkness and thorniness, she was joy. She believed in joy, and she brought joy to so many people. With one healing touch, she’d taken a pack who wanted her dead and opened them up to love her.
And what had I done?
“Saved her,” Ragor said in a low voice. “You saved her. You made her believe in love again. You
helped her trust. I scarred that girl so badly, and you brought out the joy.”
He disappeared.
Parker touched my shoulder. “You loved her. Even when you wanted to hate her, you loved her, and
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it had nothing to do with your wolf. You saw the fight in her, saw the strength, and you loved her for
it.”
He faded away.
“Protected her,” Evalina sighed. “I knew you were important. The moment my sight settled on you, I
knew that in saving her, you would save us all. You’ve protected her.”
She filled with light and twinkled out of existence.
Slowly, the crowd of the dead started to disappear too, until it was just me and Kiana.
But she was still dead.
“Do you trust her?”
I stiffened as Katherine appeared and glared at me. “Your death had nothing to fucking do with
- Go away.”
“No,” she said simply and stared down at her daughter. “I wanted so badly for her to live that I might as well have cut out a piece of her. Now, when she needs her magic the most, she has no
idea how to use it.”
“So I can blame you?”
Katherine chuckled. “You want to, but you don’t. Everyone has done Kiana wrong, and now so are you. That’s why you’re stuck here instead of talking to her.”
“And you’re going to help me?”
“When my mate killed me, I saw it happen. There was always this lurking fear that our bond wasn’t meant to be, but in the end, I was the one who turned on him. I snapped him in half without a second thought. Of course, seeing as my how my daughter has a broken neck, I guess you know
how that feels.”
“Shut up!” My voice shook with rage. “Just shut up!”
“You froze her out and chased her away. This is your fault.”
“I said shut the fuck up!” I bellowed. “I am nothing like you! You took Kiana apart because you didn’t trust her, and I know that Kiana is enough. I believe in her. She is so much more powerful than Claudine. She can win!”
A dam broke open inside of me, and I sobbed as I bent down and picked Kiana up. Katherine’s eyes widened, and she smiled. “Maybe you’re not such an idiot after all,” she said before she faded
away.
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The darkness started to cede, and I stared down at Kiana. She was facing me and her eyes were focused on me, but she didn’t say anything. Just stared. “They’re right. All this guilt is mine. I feel like I’ve failed you every step of the way just like they have, but I do trust you, my love. I believe in
you. I’ve never lost sight of that, and I need you to believe in yourself. Help me reach you so I can
bring you home.”
She smiled and faded from my arms, and the world grew white.
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