She turned into a galaxy, a blackhole, a firework full of every memory and moment we’d ever shared.
I dropped to my knees,screaming.
The weight of loneliness turned me into a monster.
I didn’t care anymore.
Couldn’t fight anymore.
You win.
The darkness lit up with blinding gold as my power went supernova.
The fire detonated with mindless, apocalyptic fury.
A cataclysmic inferno.
A destruction of hellfire.
Burning, burning,burning.
Burning until there was nothing left.
Burning until death took me.
Burning so I could find her again—
Chapter Thirty-Nine
MY EYES STUNG AS WE STOOD ON THE EDGE of disaster.
Six days we’d been forced to stay away.
Six fucking days we had to wait before it was safe enough to return.
On the third day, we’d flown over the glacier in a helicopter, needing to see if we could salvage anything. To see if Rook and Lucien had somehow survived.
Hope was a nasty bastard, and even now—standing on the freshly frozen glacier that’d turned into a lake when Lucien lost control—I couldn’t quite believe that they were gone.
That I would never see Rook again.
Never chase her around the world or beg her to let me protect her.
She was gone.
He was gone.
And I had no fucking idea what to do with myself.
“Do you think it’s safe to walk on?” Frank asked, his voice gravelly from grief.
I didn’t think either of us had slept since we’d lost them.
Blinking back the sting in my eyes, I studied the graveyard the glacier had become. The ridge of where it’d turned into a lake revealed the only reason the valley hadn’t flooded was thanks to the hills that’d trapped the flow.
Taking a wary step over the ridgeline, I held my breath,waiting to see if the surface cracked and sent me into icy waters.
When it held, I took another few steps.
