And that fuckingruinedme.
No.
I crawled faster, searching for her, begging her.
“No, no,no.”
Any moment, she’d return. The fire would bring her back. It couldn’t end like this.
It can’t.
It had to be a cruel joke. A test to see how far I would go.
That was easy.
I would trade any life for hers. I would trade amillionlives—
The thought had me casting out my awareness, hunting for anyone close by, ready to feed on them to save her.
Whisper groaned as his powerful thrumming heartbeat filled my head.
I yanked on his lifeforce.
He stumbled.
And...I couldn’t do it.
An inhuman roar ripped out of me as I slammed my fists into the glacier.
I would kill for her.
Ihadkilled for her.
Yet I couldn’t hurt Whisper.
Rage smashed into me. Fury. Hate. Injustice. Grief.
Every emotion added fuel to the fire chewing its way throughme, and...I couldn’t exist anymore.
What was the point?
Why should I even try?
If she was truly gone then—
A cataclysmic burst of flames erupted from every inch of me. Pillars of fire screamed into the sky as I reached the tipping point between fighting to live and surrendering to die.
The fire answered instantly—almost as if it’d been waiting for this moment. The moment where I finally gave in.
Titan-level power surged through me like a god awakening—ancient and limitless and utterly merciless. My veins burned with liquid starfire. My bones ignited. Every cell in my body screamed.
I threw my head back androared.
The glacier answered with an avalanche of cracking ice and thunderous booms. The sky split open as golden flames wreathed my body in a blazing corona of raw, apocalyptic power.
I felt unstoppable. Eternal. A force of nature reborn in fury and loss.
Pain unlike anything I’d ever endured blinded me. My ribs shattered. My spine splintered. Every heartbeat was agony. Every breath was lava.
