Page 91 (1/2)

When word ca Luxen had turned into one giant buffet for the Arum, she’d smiled as those around us celebrated the victory, the end of this madness But there hadn’t been a lot of time to comfort her or to really talk about it All I’d been able to do was hold her while she fell asleep Didn’t seeh

My chest was heavy with the loss, with the pain I knew she’d suffer for a long time to come from a death that was so needless and cruel Her family had been stripped away from her Her father lost to cancer and her mother to one of my own kind

Still, like some kind of miracle, her last words to me before she’d fallen asleep had been I love you The fact that she still could feel so to save her froo back and erase, this was one of them ould have to learn to accept, that ould have to face together

Kat stirred againstout in a way that reiven her A smile pulled at the corners of my lips as her lashes fluttered open

Sleep clouded her pretty eyes as they ainst aze swept across ?"

"I’ me sleep?"

One side ofthe creeper this time around"

"Callher lower lip "I spent hours staring at the best daet you everything"

"I already have everything"

"That eet of you" She patted nored the parts of aze drifted away and circled the roo back to me "It’s really over, isn’t it?"

I curledthe rush of pins and needles "I think so Ito be different Life will be different, but it’s over"

Kat’s lashes lowered as she bit down on her lower lip in a way that got those parts ofto do now?" she whispered