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He took my blood like he owned it, and damn it all if my body didn’t crumble beneath the weight of his touch. I fell into him, his powerful arms holding me up as he dropped my wrist and moved his mouth to my neck.
It felt so right, like whatever the hell was happening beyond the veil needed this, needed us to do this.
I shut my eyes and tried to focus on the sensation that now crept into every cell of my body—the sensation that something was changing.
Alek was changing.
Or maybe that was my sudden loss of blood…
But I was not afraid. No, I refused to think Alek would do anything to hurt me. I was brutally at his mercy, with his predatory mouth on my neck and my body in surrender to him.
He had everything.
The original goddess wanted me to be both light and dark, and that’s exactly what this was. I was both pure and tainted, both good and evil.
Alek was my other half.
This was our offering.
It felt so right. Deep in my soul, I felt it. Something solidified in my chest, deep in my bones. I knew Alek felt it, too.
Narcissa stopped chanting.
Alek stopped drinking.
He pulled away, just enough that he could see my face. “Lyra,” he whispered.
“It worked,” I breathed. “It worked, I can feel it.”
I waited a few seconds for him to reply, each heartbeat pounding in my ears and shaking my body.
But then Alek smiled. “Yes,” he breathed. “I can feel it, too.”
The veil did not appear before us. It did not shake the cottage or ruin the entire world.
But it didn’t have to.
That crack to the other side was shut now, along with all the evil that had crept beyond it.
“Is that it?” Wrath asked from the back of the room.
Alek did not let go of me. We stayed there on the floor, as if neither of us could believe it was finally over.
“Yes,” Theia replied for us. She sounded… sad. “It’s over, but that’s not all.”
Now she had my attention.
Alek and I both turned to look at her.
“Lyra has done what was asked of her. I’ve given up my powers as the Goddess of Light. Lyra is next in line.”
“What are you saying?” I asked. My words sounded foreign.
Theia shrugged, barely meeting my gaze. “I’m just another mortal now, darling. You, however, are the new keeper of the veil, daughter of both light and dark. You are the new Goddess of Light.”
CHAPTER 29
Alek
