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It was inconceivable—a life without the one woman I had come to care for more than anything. What good was a battle won if I didn’t have my mate at my side? It was unthinkable, impossible. But it was happening, nonetheless. The universe had no concern for the suffering of those who occupied it.
Sky tried to smile, but her face contorted as she sobbed out her words. “I don’t think I can keep that promise.”
“No, no, Sky, please!” My voice quivered with despair. “You can’t leave me. I won’t let you go.”
My bruised heart shattered as I cradled her fragile form in my arms. Blood soaked through my fingers, warm and crimson, as life ebbed away from my lover. Desperation etched deep lines of anguish on Sky’s face as she fought against the inevitability of her approaching death.
I raised my eyes to the witches who stood by, watching us. “Do something! You have magic, don’t you? You have to help her!
“I’m sorry.” Ursula wrung her hands at her sides, biting back her tears. “There is no magic that can turn back the clock.”
Sky weakly lifted a hand, her fingers trembling as they brushed against my cheek. Her voice was a whisper, barely audible from her bloodless lips.
“I’m... so sorry, Jordan,” Sky choked out, her breath shallow. “You’re going to be a wonderful queen… I wish I could be there to see it.”
My eyes blurred with tears as I pressed my lips against her forehead, a desperate gesture of love and longing. “Don’t speak like that, my love. We’ll find a way. It can’t end like this… It just can’t.”
The scent of death hung heavy in the air. The long shadows cast by the mangled frame of the greenhouse seemed to reach for my lover, death’s jagged hands grasping at her heels.
Somewhere deep inside of me, my vampiric instincts screamed to find sustenance, to drink the blood that would grant my strength. But my focus remained solely on Sky, unwilling to tear my eyes from hers.
As her life force waned, my mind raced for a solution. A way to reverse the damage. Something, anything. I would give my own life if I had to.
And then it hit me—an audacious, desperate plan that held the potential to save my mate, to bind us together in a way that surpassed mortality.
I pressed my forehead against Sky’s, closing my eyes as I breathed in her scent. “No matter what happens, know that I love you. That I will always love you.”
Sky’s breathing was labored, her words slurred as she embraced my touch. “I have loved you from the day I laid eyes on you. I have loved you all my life, and I have loved you long before my very existence.”
“Then I need you to trust me now.” I pressed my lips to the pale column of Sky’s neck. My fangs elongated, piercing the delicate flesh, and I began to drink, drawing forth the lifeblood that pulsed within my lover’s veins.
A mingling of emotions flooded my senses—love, fear, and an overwhelming desire to save the woman who meant the world to me.
Something new had been awakened inside me as my fangs sank into the woman’s flesh. The mating bond, fully consummated.
Our past, present, and future mingled, braided together in an elaborate tapestry, binding us to one another in an unbreakable bond.
And with that forged bond came a new surge of power, the bone shattering power of a vampire queen coming into her own.
Sky convulsed in my arms, a mix of pain and ecstasy contorting her features. I poured every ounce of my newfound power, all of my love, my devotion, my very essence, into the woman I loved unconditionally.
With each beat of my heart, I willed the transformation to take hold. The venom that flowed from my fangs mingled with the blood that now coursed through Sky’s veins, a potent elixir of life and death. My grip tightened on Sky, her body trembling with the effort to infuse her with her own immortality.
Minutes stretched into an eternity as I kept my hold on my lover’s throat. Sky’s body writhed and convulsed, her pale skin flushed with newfound vitality. I held on tightly, praying that the bond we shared, forged through love and sacrifice, would be enough to bring her back from the brink.
And in my mind, I spoke to her, my twin flame, hoping that somehow, through the tie of our mating bond, she could hear me.
Come back to me. It can’t end like this.
Come back to me.
Chapter 28
SKY
Myconsciousnessdancedina realm of ethereal dreams, where shadows shifted and twisted, and the air was thick with strange energy. I found myself in a darkened labyrinth, my steps hesitant and unsure. Fear whispered through my veins as I called out for anyone, anything. Names I couldn’t remember and faces I couldn’t place, my voice swallowed by the vast emptiness.
But then, a flicker of light appeared in the distance, growing brighter with each passing moment. A figure emerged from the shadows, a woman with a familiar silhouette—a graceful stature that I remembered somehow. The dream woman moved with otherworldly grace, red hair billowing over her shoulders as she reached for me.
