re Ave

he damp chi

my chamber in the palace. There was no soft mattress, no silk s

flashing in my mind. The memory was a physical blow,

pressed a hand there, a sense of loss so profoun

ed open, flooding the smal

y. The tender warmth he had always shown me

voice dripping with contemp

Kade? We did it? Where are my father and our

. "The Avery pack? They will soon go

ap. Ice spread through my veins. "W

gers clamping onto my jaw. The pressure was immens

his face inches from mine. "You were a tool.

kward, my legs giving out, and co

d useless. "Why?" I choked out. "I

rly devoid of humor. "A wolfless Omega presumes to speak

beside my ear. "Do you know why he didn't have his guards

ncontrollably. I d

a curse. "He loved you so much, the pathetic fool, th

The chilling resolve in his eyes as he took the glass. The way

nausea was

of detached amusement. "Oh, and I al

o my stomach. "You were c

flew to my belly, to the

words were a frag

never have existed." His smile was

in the darkness of my despair. "Our child?

me recoil. "Ours? Eleanore, you are truly a simpleton. Did you

his voice a venomo

ld was Be

s. The stone walls of the c

f that night you drank too much at the winter feast. A little bit of s

own bed, feeling sore and confused. Kade's soothin

a slow, method

killed the man

illed o

ound of a soul being ripped in two. It echoed off the

tisfied smirk on his

lunging me back into darkness. A darkness filled with no