Chapter 82

Bowden

“Bowden?” Griffin asks from the entrance of the catacombs. “This is not healthy. You have to get out of here. Time is running out.”

Every day, just before sunset, I come to the catacombs and stare at Kaiya’s face, willing her to open her eyes.

I shake my head, unable to move.

Three days after Kaiya died the first time, the bond started to come back to life. It helped to keep some of the darkness at bay, and I did all right until the day after the full moon, when it happened all over again.

The pain of it woke me from my sleep, tearing through my like a blunt knife.

I was still trying to take a breath when Griffin stormed into my apartment, a look of pure agony on his face. "Is it breaking?" he asked. "Are they proper dead?"

"I don't know." I gasped through the pain.

The first time it happened was still too raw, too fresh, and it all blended together into a stewing pot of abject suffering

We rushed to the catacombs to see all the mates back in their sarcophagi and Kaiya