Chapter 191
I felt every single ounce of her agony through our bond and it was worse than anything I had experienced when she was draining my life away. Her pain
became my pain, her struggle became my struggle, and I thought I might actually die from the intensity of it.
“Stop!” I shouted hoarsely, choking on my own voice as I tried to make it loud enough for him to hear me. “You’re hurting her!”
But Orion didn’t even glance in my direction.
He kept commanding her and kept forcing her to fight whatever darkness had taken hold of her soul, even though I could see that each command was
tearing her apart from the inside.
His face was set in grim determination and I realized he was willing to hurt her if that’s what it took to save her.
The conflict between his methods and my instincts was tearing me apart almost as much as the bond was.
Every fiber of my being wanted to protect Athena from any kind of pain, even if that pain might ultimately help her, but I was too weak to intervene.
Her steps quickened and the sound of her bones shifting and changing filled the chamber. It was a sick cracking sound that made my stomach twist with
nausea. Her body looked like it couldn’t decide if it wanted to shift into her wolf form or break apart, entirely.
The power inside her was fighting against Orion’s commands and I could feel the war raging inside her through every fiber of our bond. It was like being
connected to a lightning storm and I thought it might actually kill me just from the intensity of it.
She was caught between two opposing forces, the ancient power that had consumed her and her brother’s Alpha commands, and her body was paying
the price for that internal battle.
I could see her struggling to maintain control, to hold onto some piece of herself while these greater powers fought for dominance.
And then in the space of a single heartbeat she moved.
She blurred forward so fast that my eyes could barely track the movement and in an instant she was standing directly in front of Orion with her hand
raised toward his face.
Her fingers were inches away from his skin and I could see the deadly energy crackling between them like electricity.
One touch. That was all it would take. One touch and he would end up like Seraphine and Daxon, drained and withered and dead on the cave floor.
My heart stopped beating in my chest.
The realization hit me and knocked what little breath I had left right out of my lungs.
This wasn’t just about losing Athena anymore. This was about watching her become a monster, about watching her destroy everyone she had ever loved.
“She’s going to kill him,‘ my mind screamed at me. “She’s going to kill her own brother.”
The thought was so horrific that it jolted me in ways that my own pain couldn’t. I tried to move and tried to throw myself between them but my arms gave out completely and I collapsed back to the floor with a impact that sent fresh waves of agony through my already broken body.
The pain tore through me like fire but I didn’t care about my own suffering anymore. Nothing mattered except stopping what was about to happen.
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Chapter 191
1 had to stop her.
I had to find a way to reach her before she did something that would destroy her completely, something that would leave her so consumed by guilt and horror that there would be no coming back from it.
With the very last scrap of strength left in my body I forced my head up off the stone floor and shouted with everything I was feeling.
“Athena, no!”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
