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I would never get my vengeance.
I would never get to see the looks on their faces when Iwon.
And my mother… she didn’t fucking deserve to give up her soul for me.
She had noright.
“Dante,” Hendrik said.
I’d never heard his voice so soft.
I realized that I was now sitting back on my heels with strewn up dirt and broken petals all around me. The power of it burned my skin.
As if drawn to me by my mother’s power, the ash had begun seeping into me. It left trails of needles in its wake and new scars sprouting over my skin.
It hurt so much.
I blinked up at Hendrik only to see something I didn’t like reflected in his black eyes.
My scars burned with power, both new and old.
Blood and black ash melted over my skin as if it was going to burn me alive.
And my expression was one of a broken man with nothing left to live for.
Which only made me feel like more of an asshole. Lily was counting on me. The rest of our mate-circle was counting on me.
Even Hendrik was counting on me. I was the reason he was here, which made me responsible for him.
Whatever he was feeling now was my fault.
It was too much.
“I can’t do this, Hendrik,” I said, my voice breaking. “I can’t…”
Hendrik closed the distance between us, rushing me, and crashed his mouth against mine.
He was never one for words.
And when his tongue grazed over mine, I gratefully slipped into a new dance with him.
Not one of rage, but one of shared suffering and the desperate need for solace.
HENDRIK
Dante and I had fucked each other thousands of times.
But we had never done this.
He kissed me with a sense of desperation that I shared.
I’d never felt like this before.
He’d told me to turn it off, but I didn’t know how. Lily had been slowly teaching me how to feel, but Dante was the one to finally rip through the barrier that had been around my heart.
I’d never thought that I’d had one.
It turns out I did.
