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“Perhaps she’s only strong because of what was done to her.”
“Don’t,” I snarled. “Don’t you dare tell me that her father made her a stronger person. He didn’t
break her. That’s on her.”
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“You love her so much,” Katherine said softly and smiled. “I can see that. You’ve also made
mistakes with her, and it’s easy for you to think that everyone else has made mistakes too. I did
make mistakes with her. I made the mistake of teaching my daughter how to use magic. I made
the mistake of honing those skills.”
“Stop!” I snarled.
“Troy?” Kiana’s eyes widened as she stood. “Did you find something? I can’t hear you.”
Glaring at Katherine, I turned and held out my hand for her. “Just talking to myself. I don’t think this is a memory. We’ve been here awhile and there’s no mist and no people. Just us. I think we’ve broken the cycle of memories, and this is your mind. You can rest here.”
“Your love will be the end of all,” Katherine said darkly. “You’ll set her free, and when you need to end her life, you won’t be able to do it. She’ll bring darkness to the mountain and beyond. That’s what the Crone said. And now you’ll share the blame with me.”
She winked out existence, and Kiana touched my face. “What are you looking at?”
Just another person who’d failed Kiana by underestimating her.
I would not do the same.
Never again.
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Chapter 122-1
Kiana
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At some point, I slept. It seemed strange considering my body was already unconscious, but I did
feel better when I opened my eyes. Troy was behind me against a tree trunk with his arms
wrapped around me. Nothing had changed about the scene in front of me.
Why this particular forest? Was it random? Was it attached to some memory? If so, it must not
have been an important one.
“I’m here,” Troy said behind me.
“I know.” With a small smile, I shifted so I could tilt my head up and look at him. “How long have I
been asleep?”
“No clue. Not long. How do you feel?”
“More rested. It’s strange to think that I might have been tired, but I guess I needed to stop running for a little bit. I owe you for breaking me out of the memory cycle.” I wasn’t quite ready to get up yet. Instead, I enjoyed the sensation of being in his arms. It wasn’t my body or his body, but it certainly felt real.
It was comfort.
“It’s been a lot to learn all in one go. I’m glad you could rest. I have a feeling we’ll be allowed to stay here longer if you needed it.”
I knew what he wasn’t staying. We’d stay here forever unless I found a way out. “What do you think
I should do?”
“Trust your instincts. This is your mind. If you were going to hide something inside your mind,
where would you put it?”
I wrinkled my nose. “That isn’t helpful. My mind is a jumbled-up mess. Sometimes, I’m obsessing about the past. About some…wolf that I had to kill because Ragor was torturing her. Other times, I’m trying to just hide away. When I’m focused on you, it’s a little clearer.”
“I feel that way when I’m focused on you as well,” he said in a low voice that made me all kinds of tingly. Was I really getting horny in my own mind? What was wrong with me? “When your wolf didn’t want to come out, where would she go? Where does she hide inside of you?”
That was a strange question. I hadn’t considered where inside of me. I just knew that she went as deep as she could go. Sometimes, I could just barely reach her. “It’s like I know, but when I focus on it, it’s too fuzzy.”
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“Hmm. My wolf has been hiding from me.”
“What?” Head snapping up, I scrambled off his lap and sat in the dirt, facing him. “Why?”
Clans
“He thinks he was a monster,” Troy said simply. “When the drug took over. He panicked. I don’t think he’s ever panicked before. I’ve shifted several times since the drugs have been out of my system, but each time, I’ve had to force him to come out. The last time, I stopped. He dove so deep inside me that I feel like he can’t hear me, but I know where he is. It’s a memory I don’t like to
access very often.”
“A memory? Which one?”
“The night the bond snapped into place.”
Pain spread through me, and I closed my eyes. Shit, it hurt. I had really let my guard down with him. “T-That’s the most painful memory for you?”
“It is. You were caked in mud and drenched from the rain. So damn scrawny that I don’t even know how you were still standing. Ragor’s blood was on you, and you just offered up your throat, so damn ready to die. The bond snapped into place, and the things I said to you.” Troy’s hand reached for mine. “I can never go back and take that away, Kiana. I can’t fix it. So, I wall that memory away and try to remind myself that we’re here now, and that moment doesn’t matter.”
Oh. Swallowing hard, I opened my eyes. “It doesn’t matter, Troy. I barely think of it, and when I do, I can’t believe you didn’t kill me.”
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