Chapter 217
Through the haze of the power’s control, I can hear voices around me. Panicked voices getting louder and more desperate by the second.
“His pulse is getting weaker, Derek says, and there’s terror in his voice that I’ve never heard before. Derek who’s always so calm and collected, who always knows what to do, sounds like he’s about to fall apart.
“What’s happening to her? Sarah asks, and I can hear her crying. Her hands are glowing.”
I didn’t know my hands were glowing, but now that she’s mentioned it, I can feel the heat radiating from them. It’s not a good heat, not the warmth of healing. It’s the heat of something being burned away.
“No, no, no,” Orion is saying, and his voice is getting more panicked with each repetition.
“Athena, you have to stop,” he shouts, but his voice sounds like it’s coming from miles away instead of just a few feet. “You’re killing him.”
But I can’t stop. The power has me completely, and it’s using my hands as conduits to drain every last bit of life from the person I love most in the
world.
I can feel Tristan’s life force flowing into me, and each second that passes makes him weaker while making the thing inside me stronger. It’s feeding off
him, growing fat and satisfied while he dies beneath my hands.
The worst part is that I can feel how good it feels to the power. How satisfied and content it is to finally be doing what it was designed to do. This is what it’s wanted all along, and now it has the perfect opportunity.
‘His breathing is stopping,“Derek says, and his voice cracks completely.
*Get away from her Derek” Orion shouts. “Athena, I need you to listen to me.” He says gently now.
“He’s dead,” Derek says cutting whatever Orion was about saying, and the words hit the room. “Athena, he’s dead.”
Dead. The word cuts through the power’s control for just a moment, hitting me like a slap to the face.
I’d killed him.
I’d killed Tristan, instead of saving him.
“I’m going to try to make you shift, I need you to listen to my command” Orion says, and I can hear the pain in his voice, through the command.
No. No. I shook my head.
1 can save him, I’d save him.
‘No, I manage to say, and my voice is hoarse and desperate and barely recognizable. “No, he’s not dead. I can save him.”
“Ath?” I heard Orion voice, full of surprise. Surprise that I could talk, the last time I couldn’t.
I close my eyes tighter and push back against the thing that’s controlling me.
‘I can save him,‘ I repeat, louder this time, putting every ounce of determination I have into the words. “He’s not dead.”
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Chapter 217
*Athena,‘
Sarah’s
mize is
gentle bat
firm,
and I can
feel her kneeling
beside me.
You have to let
YOUL
have to stop
before
You drain
yourself
“Okay. I trust
you
t
hear Orion say and it
8 everything I need.
1
won’t let
Never.
Because somewhere
in the
of back
my
1 mind,
can hear
Tristan’s
voice
too.
full of
love and
trust
and
absolute
faith in
trust
you. Ath. 1 trust you with
my life.”
They
trusted
me,
and I’m not
going to let
that trust
be for
nothing.
I’m
not
going to
let him
die
couldn’t
this ‘t control
thing
inside
me
The
power
is
still
flowing through
me, still
trying
to take
more even
though
there
might
not
be
anything
Jeft
to take.
But
underneath
its hunger, underneath desperate need to
its
consume,
sense
something
Fear.
A
The
power is
afraid,
and that’s
why
it’s
lashing out. That’s
why
it’s
trying to
take instead
of
give.
I remember what
Derek said about
the
power
only hurting people
when it
feels
cornered
Or
threatened.
Right
now, it feels
both of
those things, surrounded by people who
terrified are
of it,
trapped
in
a
situation
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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.
