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Her eyes opened They were bloodshot, which made them look so blue, just like the skies from his childhood So pretty

Her delicate hand cradled his cheek and he felt a tingling sweep out over his skin "You didn’t fail ht they had a future together Madoc had been hurt enough ti out

"I’ve called Tynan He’s co"

"How did you?"

"He drank my blood We’re connected now"

"I’ connected to another et ho to show you exactly how you’re different from any otherto live for"

She gave hiet away from me that easy"

Footsteps cath to see who it was

"Looks like you could useup," said Tynan

Relief made Madoc dizzy "A little"

"Yeah And I’ht hurt," said Tynan "We’re in a bit of a rush"

Madoc braced himself, but whatever Tynan did felt like he’d taken a blowtorch to his back When he laid his hands on Nika, Madoc nearly stopped hi to death

She pulled in a harsh breath, but showed no other signs that Tynan had hurt her

Tynan was shaking when he pulled his hand away "There That’ll do for now We need to move before it’s too late"

"Where’s Tori?" asked Madoc

"Waiting outside, freezing," said Tynan "Let’s go before we can’t"

Chapter 31

Tynan was so exhausted, he barelyand filled with silence Gilda and Angus hadn’t made it out No one had heard frohed hi through hiht It had been necessary, but it had nearly killed him

Later he would feed more What he’d taken froh to replenish his strength Right now he needed to sleep, but it had to wait for just a few more minutes

He went to the spare upstairs bedroom where he kept his lab and took the tiny, lifeless newborn out from under his shirt There had been sothe baby under his coat

And it was a baby, unlike the previous creatures they’d found It was perfect, every tiny facet of its body an exact replica of a human, or a Sentinel

Tynan didn’t knohy it hadn’t lived, but he intended to find out And then, when he had, he’d bury the boy in the graveyard with the others who had fallen This child did not deserve to suffer for its parentage, and Tynan refused to treat it like soon a dirty cave floor

He understood why Tori couldn’t face her child’s death right now, but one day she’d be ready When she was healed When she was older She was still a child herself, but one day he’d be able to lead her to the unrieve

Tynan wrapped the infant up in a clean towel and laid it gently in his lab’s refrigerator It seemed a dishonor to the life that could have been, but there was no help for it He would do what must be done, as he always had

Andra raced into Dabyr, ignoring all the chaos Paul was right on her heels Neither one of theue seeot to home

She knew fro to relax until she saw her sister firsthand And when she’d done that, she had an even bigger issue to deal with

Nika had found Tori Alive After all these years

Andra still couldn’t believe it--not even after having struggled with the life-changing news for the hours it had taken to get back hoht had been her sister’s remains last year How could this have happened? How could she have been so wrong? Was Tori’s "appearance" now a trick by the Synestryn, or was the trick played on her when she’d carried a stranger’s bones out of that cave?

If it weren’t for Tynan’s vow that the blood of the girl they found was unmistakably linked to her and Nika, Andra probably still wouldn’t believe it Maybe part of her still didn’t She needed to see Tori with her own eyes, hold her in her arirl