Page 105 of The Wild Moon
“You can?”
He nodded.
The Soulbond sensed what he was talking about, and I found myself dragging my body toward Johnathan.
“DO IT!” I screamed as more purple energy rose to combat the Soulbond. I could feel my body breaking apart. It wouldn’t be long before the energy, the golden Soulbond or the purple of this new power, started to pour through my skin, quite literally shredding me to pieces.
Vir hesitated. “If I do this,” he said. “You will never love.”
“I DON’T CARE!”My voice shook the chamber once more.
“You will be alone,” he said heavily. “Forever.”
I looked at him, my eyes snapping open. “I’m already alone,” I whispered. “I have no family. No mate. I have nothing.”
Vir stared at me sadly.
“Please!” I wailed. “I would ratherdiethan be with him. He’s everything I hate.”
Nearby, Johnathan got to his feet. I could sense his every move. I felt his muscles. It was killing me.
“Please,” I whispered.
A loud, powerful roar from outside the chamber filled me with more dread. Lars was coming. He was almost here.
“Okay,” Vir said.
Then, he reached out and worked the energy. It responded to him. He absorbed some of it and grew swiftly in size. His wolf’s head reappeared, as did his weapon of war, the spear.
Reaching out, he touched me with that same worked energy. A line of golden brilliance appeared, rising from my chest into the air and running across the room to where it plunged deep into Johnathan’s chest. Linking us. It glowed so brightly it fought back the purple energy.
“Cut it!” I cried as my wolf started pushing through my skin, taking over.
I couldn’t resist any longer. We were going to mate with Johnathan. We were going to end our torment.
The building was shaking around us as my fur lightened, my hands and feet reshaping themselves into paws. The pain of the shift was nothing compared to the agony in the rest of me.
“I’m sorry,” Vir said quietly, and the tip of his spear came up and through the golden line.
Severing it.
Chapter Fifty-Four
Peace.
The feeling flooded me instantly as the golden bond split apart, the ends of it beginning to blacken even as the force of the spear slicing them sent the two ends fluttering up into the air.
Pain receded next. Giving me some clarity. I could see the room again, still lit by the bursting, crackling energy that was still being absorbed by me, somehow.
What was this place? What did it mean?
My attention was focused on the very Soulbond itself. I hadn’t realized it was anactualthing. A tangible line between the two of us, but now, as I watched the blackness work its way toward me, the entire thing happening in slow motion, I knew without a doubt I’d made the right choice.
A life of loneliness was better than the alternative. This was what I’d needed to do.
I watched the line die, waiting for it to reach me.
Finally.
