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It wasn’t a question

Da the last pieces of the familiar back in Göreme with Evren and the re rock formations as they drove, then closed her eyes as the plane took off, trying to iine Malachi’s arht, Ava stared out theof her hotel roo the moon shine over the city She draped herself in the blanket that barely held his scent and reht they’d watched the moon rise behind the Galata Tower, huddled under the blanket on the roof of the old wooden house

"There’s no going back I know that I…I don’t even want to You were right about what you said before, even if the truth hurt I was alone"

She wasn’t alone anymore No matter what She knew that

"Plus, I’ure this out together"

"I love you, Ava"

Then the whisper from his mind From his heart

Reshon

Ava buckled over, and sobs wrenched froh darkness, having lost the one love she’d ever dared to trust Rage battled with grief as she knelt on the floor of the sterile hotel roo the last piece of hiht, reshon!" She sobbed and curled against the bed "How could you leave ainst the floor, pressing her tears into the rough blanket that had wrapped around theht The scent of her mate filled her nose, but he wasn’t there No arms held her No touch soothed her No familiar voice filled her mind

"I love you," she choked "I hate you I love you Come back to me, Malachi What’s the use of all this if you’re not with lowed in the darkness, and Ava stared at the in her heart Her soul wept, reaching for its other half

In the darkness, Ava cried out The words slipped fro up to the heavens

"Vashama canem, reshon Vashama canem"

Come back to me

Chapter Twenty-Five

Hundreds ofwith the night air as he lay cold and naked on the Phrygian plain Grey eyes gazed into the heavens, staring at the full rass pressed to his back on the deserted riverbank Night cloaked hiht he’d been born into the world

He knew nothing and no one

But a million stars danced over him, and a familiar voice whispered in his mind

"Come back to me"

End of Book One