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My beautiful, strong Quinn.
She lies on her back in the middle of it all, hardly moving.
Blood bubbles on her lips as she coughs, her eyes blinking rapidly at the sky before she turns her head to meet my gaze. A sad smile curls her bloodied lips as she looks away from thehunter coming up behind her, their blade raised, ready to end her life.
I’m dying, yet I turn my head to keep her in view.
Groaning, I flip to my side and grit my teeth against the agony as I crawl to her.
I drag myself using everything left inside me, despite the pure torture it pours into my body. My body shakes as it shuts down, wanting to quit, but I force it to keep going, my eyes on her. I throw myself over her just as the blade comes down, piercing my body.
Her eyes widen below me, my name a rasp on her lips.
“I love you,” I mumble, knowing it will be the last thing I say.
I love her enough to die for her, to take the blade meant for her.
Coldness spreads through my body, and I blink to keep my eyes open and locked on her until my last breath. I don’t want to see anything else as she cries beneath me. Her hands cup my cheeks, but I cannot feel it.
“I love you.”
I think I say it, but I don’t know.
As I slip away from this life, her roar of anguish follows me.
I’m sorry, Quinn.
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
Istare up into Jai’s eyes, and my heart breaks.
He’s dying, maybe even dead, and I cannot feel anything beyond the numbing grief as my wolf screams. My soul darkens, and I lose pieces of myself until it feels like I’m being torn apart from the inside out.
Beyond him, I hear Lucien and Vale crying out and know they are dying too.
I’m losing them to the evil of this world, to the hunters who stole my home and family time and time again. They will not take everything from me again.
Despite my body dying, my soul fills with a rage born from my ancestors who were hunted for simply being alive, my parents who lost their child and then their lives, and my father who sacrificed everything.
Hate fills me with rage.
It builds so much, I cannot control it anymore.
It is an anger formed throughout the centuries from all persecuted monsters and hunted beasts.
Their souls bind with mine for one moment, filling me until my dying body cannot hold it anymore.
It explodes out of me, a scream filled with centuries of pain and suffering. It echoes into the night, and I feel it reaching into the deepest, darkest recesses of the world, touching creatures like me.
I feel their pain.
I see it.
My cry echoes it, and when I slump, a new energy fills me, one I know will leave soon, so I sit up, catching Jai and laying him down. I place a kiss on his unmoving lips, knowing if I focus on him, I will simply die next to him.
Climbing to my feet, I meet Black’s eyes. “Pull back,” he roars as his hunters race to his side. I don’t know what he saw or felt, but for the first time tonight, he looks scared.
Terrified, actually.
