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Before I could answer, Morgan gasped, pushing away from me slightly, causing our group to shift, taking a few feet back as we looked at what caused her sound.
It was me. I was beginning to glow and in my soul, I knew this was it. This was all the time I was allotted. Jameson rushed forward, gripping my face in a bruising grip as he kissed me fiercely, his tears falling to mingle with my own. He murmured against my lips, “I was never good enough for you, but I will continue to be better with Morgan. She won’t be alone.”
I tried to respond, to tell them all one last time that I was thankful to have felt their love, but I couldn’t speak. The rest of my mates ran towards me, and I ached to kiss them all, but when Seth brought his hand forward, it passed through me like a ghost.
Luca roared, “No! I refuse to accept this!” lunging forward as if to hold me to him like he could physically restrain me to this plane of existence. Wes and Caleb grabbed him, ending in the three of them holding each other as they stared at me, eyes red with tears as their bodies shook.
I felt the moment my soul was called away, a tugging sensation yanking on the center of my chest, like I was attached to a string in the sky. It pulled me up and I watched as I began to break into small balls of light as I drifted up through the tent, passing through the material like it was nothing.
The sky ushered me home as the moon’s glow began to take over the sky. I saw my mates and Morgan rush out of the tent, watching my ascent.
“I always knew you were mine,” Milo yelled to the sky. “Even before the Fates decided to confirm it. And you want to know what else I know, baby? I know that this isn’t the end of our story.”
A part of my heart broke then as the moon whisked me up and away from them, and I knew it would never be repaired. What was the purpose of living if you didn’t have anyone you loved to share it with?
I couldn’t do this.
Lux!
I spiraled, realizing in the fray I had never gotten to say what I needed to her. But silence met me as the edges of my vision closed in, my last glimpse of this world coming to a close.
CHAPTERTWENTY-THREE
KIRA
I knew I was in Selene's realm. My soul vibrated with the certainty that I was home, but that feeling of my mind accepting this at home caused the tears to fall harder and I refused to open my eyes. The second I did, I would have to admit that this was the rest of my life.
That I would never lay eyes on my loved ones again.
My mind rebelled, wanting to be wrapped up in the memory of the final moment with my pack. I wanted to feel their arms around me one last time, again. To tell them how fiercely I loved them. I needed to be there until the tears on Morgan’s face dried and I knew she would be okay.
But I wouldn’t get my wishes and the voice that called out cemented that fact.
“Welcome home, Kira.”
Selene.
Kira, I’m here with you!
My eyes popped open in shock, not because of Selene speaking to me, but from the shock of Lux being with me now. How was this possible?
You can hear me?
Yes!
“And guest.”
Wait, what did Selene just say?
This time her words were the cause of my shock and I spun on my heel to look at her for the first time. She was lounging with her feet in a river, reminding me of the first time I met her as she sang a song I couldn’t understand, but felt deeply. It was like déjà vu of the first and last time I’d come to this realm.
Her back was to me and bare, for the most part, a shimmering silver dress that was cut deeply in the back, drooping all the way down to her tailbone, gliding over her body. Her dark hair swept up into an array of curls that somehow looked effortlessly chic.
“What did you say?” I asked, needing her to repeat herself, stunned into standing with my feet firmly planted now.
Her cheek turned, showing me her delicate profile as I felt her probing gaze taking me in. “I can sense all that are in my realm, but this one is peculiar. I can feel them within you. Come sit.”
My heart spiked with the fear her words struck into me.What if she takes you from me, Lux? What if we’re separated?
