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Yes, fight him! Don't you dare give up, Hales!
I soared higher, beating my wings as fast as I physically could, fighting the wind as it tried to keep me back. Or was it winning? Panic clawed my chest apart, and my heart skipped with a beat of hope when Haley lifted her glowing knife and—and stabbedherself.
No!I screamed, my shriek loud enough to split the skies. My hope died, decayed right in my chest. She hadn’t fought him; she stabbed herself.Why?I screamed the word and didn’t care that the word came out mangled and avian.
"Why?"
Pain ripped my chest apart and spread to every part of my body.
Please, no. Not again. I can't lose her again. I can't live without her. Please.
My wings were numb as I flew closer, too weak, too gutted to even yell when Cronus ripped the knife out of my mate's stomach and discarded her like an unwanted piece of rubbish.
I dropped through the air, following her body’s path through the sky. Pain shredded my heart, crushing all the feeling out of my wings, numbing my soul. I barely even felt it when I arced under my mate's falling body and she crashed into my back.
It was too silent, too still. The whole world had frozen in grief.
But she was still alive, wasn't she? She had to be. It was only a stab wound; she’d survived so many of them that I'd lost count. She'd be fine. She'd be completely fine.
The ground raced up faster than I expected, my head a scrambled mess. I landed and shifted to my demon form in the same breath, twisting my body to catch Haley before a single strand of her hair could meet the dirty ground.
"Come on, Hales," I gasped, holding her to my chest, my arms numb but trembling,all of metrembling. Her stormy eyes were open, staring up at me. Empty. Oh gods, oh gods—
"Wake up," I choked out, staring into her slack face. "Don't leave me, Hales. Please."
Noise roared around me but I didn't even register it, and the movement that soared past me was meaningless. None of it mattered. Haley wasn't moving, wasn't breathing. Blood soaked her clothes, a ragged wound gaped in her stomach, and she wasn'tmoving.
"Emlyn?" a raw, broken voice demanded, shadows blotting out the world. I couldn't see anything but Haley. "We need to get her to a doctor. We need—"
"It's too late," I said, my tongue completely numb.
A cry rent the air, the whole mountain shaking under us. My dead heart skipped. Kai.
I stared at her empty eyes and couldn't look away even as voices reached my ears—Harvey, Kai, Wane, Wynvail. Wynvail was alive and my Hales was dead. Everything was wrong.
"Listen to me," the bastard hissed, his voice low. "We need to get out of here. I can't tell you why, but we need to leavenow."
"No,youneed to die," Kai snarled gutturally, movement in the edge of my vision suggesting they were fighting.
"Fuck," Wane sobbed, pressing closer to me, his side flush to mine. "What is the titan—what isthat?In his hand?"
I lifted my dead eyes and stared, not seeing a single thing except—charred pink and volcanic metal. Her dagger.
I took a painful breath, clutching Haley closer to my chest. She wasn't dead. She'd wake up. Any minute now, her eyes would open and her chest would fill with air.
Any minute now.
But Cronus had shrunk to his former size and he held my mate’s dagger. The other was sheathed at her hip, pressed to my stomach, but the sight of her dagger inhishand made the numbness shudder, rage buried underneath the emptiness. Waiting.
"You fuckingmonster,"Kai screamed, his voice cracking as he threw himself down the street at the titan.
I stared emptily, knowing I should have stopped him but—I didn't have the strength. I didn't haveanything.
A golden-haired young man intercepted Cronus before Kai could, power moving around him like a bright sunbeam, but it was clearly a weapon; it was aimed directly at the titan.
"Stop!" Harvey hissed, throwing himself after Kai, grabbing his shoulder and wrenching him back. I watched emotionlessly as they tussled.
"Who is that?" Wane breathed.
