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“What do you mean?” Sabra turns to her.
“Look at the screen,” Ksenia says. Our heads all swivel in unison, and Layden turns it up.
“Everything that’s happened in the past hour has been absolutely unprecedented,” the newscaster says. “And this new unfolding situation continues in that vein. The creatures who have descended on many nuclear facilities across the globe appear now to be retreating. . . into space.”
The feed switches to a wide-angled view of the sky with a long, never-ending line of the now-glowing sky-whales heading straight up. And up and up and up.
“Space?” Kharon asks, obviously confused.
“Oh my god,” Layden breathes out.
“What?” I ask.
Ksenia, obviously the first to connect the dots, fills the rest of us in. “There’s still one more excellent source of radioactive material on this plane of existence. The sun.”
Chapter Twenty-Nine
REMUS
Well, shit.
I see the terror on my Lo-Ren’s face and feel it in her tense body. I swore to protect her and that she would never have anything to fear being at my side.
Now, the world as she knows it is about to end. For the second time today.
And at least part of it is my fault. Phoenix never would have gotten the power up from Grandpa-Dearest if I hadn’t given him the intel on my family, including Kharon’s plane-crossing abilities. Granted, I didn’t know that was how Phoenix’s family’s power worked without the intel on the situation my brother may have gathered while I slept, but still. Not sure it’s up to quibbling about the finer points when the sun that warms my beloved’s skin is about to go dark.
It would be just my luck to finally find love and then watch her die cruelly along with all of her kind, only for my brothers and I to be left all alone on a cold, lifeless planet.
No.
Fuck no.
I squeeze Lo-Ren to me. She’s warm and breathing and alive now. I twist her toward me and kiss her.
She tries to pull back. “What are you—”
“Just kiss me, my love.”
Her eyes pop open wide.
“I love you,” I say to her shocked expression. “You’ve made my pointless existence worth living, and all I want in this moment is to taste your lips.”
She closes her eyes and breathes out, her body going limp against me. “One last time.”
I kiss her and she throws herself into me, her body coming back to life as our lips press furiously together. I’m glad to feel some of the fight come back into her because it’s what I live for.
I pull back, the fire inside me roaring. After all, I am the angel of War. Except now, for the first time in my life, I have something to fight for.
“I’ll see you soon, my love.” I grin at her, all glamours gone, wanting it to be my face she looks into just in case it really is for the last time.
She clings to me, but I pull back. “Wait, where are you going? Don’t leave!”
“I’m always in your heart,” I say, pressing my hand to her chest. “Some things are eternal.”
And then I yank away from her clinging grasp, turn, and sprint out of the room and down the hallway. Running is an inefficient way of travel, though, especially for where I’m going.
As soon as I reach the courtyard, I flare my black wings wide, leap, and take off into the air. Time for the fight of my life.
