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.

that my mate–no, not my mate any longer–is still

to his cell,” Samsen says somewhere

from

wait!” I protest, trying to fight against the

I’m as weak as

the effects of breaking the

know she’s okay!” I yell as the Enforcers

away.

closer to Leah, laying

left her after

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

My heart stops.

I shout, but the Enforcers are

to answer

a cloth from the nearby table and drapes it over Leah’s

No.

can’t be happening.

be dead.

meant to survive to go

to

I’m to be executed,

Ethan?

need to see her.

the hours of unrelenting pain to fight against the two Enforcers dragging

then march

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