I thought absorbing Alpha powers the first time had been painful.

It had nothing on the absolute tearing going on within me once the mating bond broke.

It feels like my body is being ripped apart at a cellular level.

But through all that, I’m holding onto Leah, because I know she’s going through the same thing.

I have no idea how long it goes on for, only that it doesn’t feel like its ever going to end.

Somehow, through the pain, I start wondering if I’m going to

survive this after all.

Worse, I wonder if Leah will survive this.

I know she’s strong, but she’s been through so much already.

Eventually, however, the pain starts to feel less intense and I think maybe I’m through the worst of it.

I rouse myself enough to look blearily down at Leah, who is

limp and pale in my arms.

I’m not even sure she’s breathing.

“Leah,” I whisper, my voice hoarse.

before I can properly check that my mate–no, not my mate any longer–is still alive, some Enforcers step up and drag us

Alpha Rathborn back to his cell,” Samsen says somewhere

from

trying to fight against

I’m as weak as a

survive the effects of breaking the mating bond has sapped

I yell as the Enforcers drag

away.

Petyr step closer to Leah,

after pulling us apart.

his fingers into Leah’s neck, and then looks up at Sämsen with a shake of

My heart stops.

are still dragging me away. “Tell

bother to answer me, but Petyr

the nearby table and drapes it over Leah’s still form.

No.

can’t be

be dead.

meant to survive to go home to

was meant to save her, not kill

gone and I’m to be executed,

Ethan?

to see

gone, but I’m too wiped from the hours of unrelenting pain to fight against the two Enforcers dragging me out of the hall and

floor and then march out again, loudly clanging

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