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“I’m with you, Reagan ...”
Our screams reached a crescendo, and I could have sworn I heard Caius’s roar of fury beside us. His face in my thoughts. The way he smiled at me and caressed my cheek with his thumb. The scent of him. His love. It gave me strength to push through, to do what needed to be done.
In the end, there was only Caius.
In the end, there was only silence.
Chapter40
Caius
Ifelt her soul leave her body right as I crossed the threshold of the hotel room. My shadows had unlocked the warded door and then blasted it open. I rushed forward, getting there only in time to catch her body as it fell straight into my waiting arms.
Eyes open and unblinking, she stared at nothing at all. Her chest didn’t rise or fall. Her pulse didn’t hammer at my touch.
She was just ... empty.
A shell.
I dropped to my knees, head hanging forward. “Reagan, come back. Come back to me.” I begged her to stay, to live, even though she was already gone.
“I need you, my love.”
Her pulse didn’t restart.
“I only just found you ...”
Her chest didn’t rise.
“Please ...”
Her eyes remained unseeing.
And something in me cracked wide open. Shadows swarmed the room and beyond. It was pure darkness. It was what I would become without my mate.
Despair would pull me under, and I would let it.
Clara was wrapped around Jo, the young boy who found me outside the portal and led me here.
I didn’t know what had transpired in this shithole. I didn’t know much of anything. All I knew was Reagan was gone, and Abyssian had taken her from me.
A soft hand touched my shoulder, I tensed.
“Caius, I’m here.” Jo addressed me directly in the voice of a nine-year-old but with the wisdom of someone far older.
“She’s gone,” I whispered. “I’ve only just found her, and she’s gone.”
“Caius,” the boy said gently. “Look.”
Fingers touched my chin, lifting my head. He pointed, and I followed.
Bloody ropes hung from a hook in the ceiling. Glancing down, I saw her wrists were rubbed raw and stained red. But that’s not what Jo was pointing at.
There, right in front of me, was a floating orb of brilliant white light. It was the only light in the darkness. The only source of purity. Or joy.
It was my soul.
But I didn’t want it.
