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“I love you, Baby Girl,” I whispered. “I love you more than I’ve ever loved anyone.”
Her eyes became glassy, and then she leaned close. I cupped her cheeks, drawing her closer. But she put her hand on my chest.
“Kiss me when I’m back.”
When they wouldn’t see.
When this would all be over.
“Tomorrow,” I told her.
“You promise?” she asked.
Her warm palm pressed against where my hands cupped her cheeks, and she closed her eyes. Her soft lips curved up at the corners, and she became, in that moment, complete. Every fragment of the puzzle I’d desperately scraped together over the last few weeks, coming together in one moment.
She was hope.
A lighthouse enduring in a void that should have swallowed it a thousand times. The impossible smile that defied every odd.
This omega, with breathtaking golden eyes, glittering with everything we had no right to have lost: she was our missing piece.
I searched for my own smile, needing to leave her with a gift. I finally understood her strength for how painful it was when I found it: Soaring, agonising hope that tore open a void beneath me.
“I promise,” I whispered. “We’ve still got dreams to chase.”
FORTY-SEVEN
ZEUS
I stared down at the two objects before me on the oak desk. Either both would play a role tomorrow, or neither would.
I picked up the vial and tilted it, watching the disruption of the silver dust within. Enough to make an already vicious weapon deadly. Not enough to be traced in the body.
Yet, I’d believed in this plan since the day of its conception. Why would it change now, with one night to go?
The quietest voice whispered in my head.Because of her.
Upturning plans, wreaking destruction—in my mind,my bond, my pack.
Quivering with fury, I set the vial down carefully.
She’d ruined everything else, so could she have, possibly, changed the equation completely?
Why should I not leave this to her, then, too?
Her’swould be the choice that damned him.
VEX
I clenched my fists around the sleeve of my shirt, around the inscription my mother had sewn.
It was the one line of lyrics I held most dear, the one line I hadn’t had the courage to sing, even after all these years.
Back in the room they had trapped me in for months, the dread returned. Cruel whispers sowing doubt, telling me that I might have left my mate’s home for the last time. The Lightning pack may ask for something I couldn’t allow to be given.
I wasn’t just running from the Lightning pack anymore. Iwasthe Crimson Fury pack omega, and that meant I would protect them.
I could survive this: I had a piece of each of them with me.
