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And I couldn’t live in a world where Benedict wasn’t alive and well

The rolling green hills of lycan territory ca city lights of Edgeht of it, and I focused on those astoward me too fast

I flailed h me like lava as I tried to learn to fly, learn to wend Tried to wieldthe ground

But I couldn’t

I was too weak

And it was too late

I tore round A grasshopper bounced on a single blade of grass right before—

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Benedict

My footsteps were heavy in the hall,the carpet as I walked fro by the center hallway that led to the royal chambers

Hawke saton his raised knees The light froer in his hand

He looked asJocelyn had only been gone a matter of hours, and yet it felt like years, decades even

I have never loved you Her words echoed inon the radio I’d spent an hour naked inthat I’d find a new tattoo in so, but there was nothing

I’d foolishly givenour bond The pain was uniony of emptiness that I kneould only worsen as time went on Bonds could be rejected—it had happened a few times in vampire history, but never after it had been accepted as I’d thought ours had been She didn’t want ainst my ribs as if it could fly across our territory to the palace of the witches and reclaim her

But you can’t

Hawke’s head fell back against the ith a dull thump

“You can’t sit out here forever,” I said, changingtoward him