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Chapter 1

How do you say good-bye to a friend?

How do you say sorry I wasn't there for you, that I wasn't strong enough, that I should have shot the bastard when I first had the chance? How can you say those things when he's no longer around to hear the words?

And how can you get over the grief when his body is little one from this life?

You couldn't I couldn't

So I just stood there on the edge of the precipice, surrounded by the dark beauty of the Grampian Mountains and buffeted by a wind that seemed to echo ild hoofbeats

These weren't the mountains Kade had been born in, but they were the ones that he had chosen in death His ashes had been scattered here three o, the funeral attended by his mares, his children, and his coworkers from the Directorate

By everyone except me

I'd been caught in a battle ofbetween this world and the next, torn between the desire to die and the reluctance to siive up

In the end I'd chosen life over death, but it wasn't my tho'd pulled me from the brink, nor was it the vampire who held my heart My savior had coht violet eyes that saw too much

But there'd been no savior for Kade

There should have been, but I'd failed him

I closedthe wind rock o, to fall forward into the chasm that stretched out below me To smash my body on the rocks and let my spirit roam across this vast wildness To be free, as my friend was now free

Because with Kade dead, my soul mate - Kye - dead, and most of my dreams little hty enticing option

But there were people in my life who deserved better And Kade would certainly want more from me than that