65. A Perfect Star

Stefan’s POV

It’s not until I watch the flames engulf her body that all hope dies within me. Gwen is gone. She is dead.

When I saw her at the castle two nights ago, I thought I had time. Now, I have all the time in the world, but I don’t have her.

I have nothing.

And it’s all my fault.

If I’d never let her leave, this would not have happened. Heck, if I’d left her alone that night I found her at the nightclub, she would be alright.

‘You can delay fate, but you cannot change it.’

That’s what Eric said when I woke up in the middle of the jungle after he went off running last night.

She was meant to die, that’s what he meant. That it didn’t matter what I did or failed to do. She would have died anyway, at that exact time.

He said the High Priestess never mentioned it. She told him about his own demise, but not a word about Gwen’s.

Why did she insist on sacrificing Gwen in her past life when she must have known she would die young? Because then, she must have known that Gwen