All Chapters of The Harbinger’s Forbidden Mates: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

 Kael rose to his feet, his hands shaking. “Then I’ll find her,” he said, voice breaking.  “Even if she no longer remembers me.”  Lucien’s eyes darkened.  “You don’t understand.  When you find her again… she won’t just be Rory.”  The ground beneath them trembled soft, steady, regular.  A beating. But not human.“My reflection smiled when I didn’t.”  My mirror smiled when I didn’t. 

  “Am I?” she murmured.  “You’ve carried death since the day you were born.  It sticks to you, sweet girl.  And now, it’s reaching for everyone you love.”  I shook my head furiously.  “No.  I won’t let that happen.”  Selene’s grin widened.  “You already have.”  She waved her hand and I saw it.  An image of Kael falling to his knees, his chest bleeding from a wound that glowed with dark light.  Lucien chained to a burning cross.  Elias’s ring bre

 Selene sighed.  “How romantic.  How sad.  But remember, love always costs more than you think.”  Kael stood slowly, turning toward her.  “You wanted this.  You wanted her tied to him so she’d never leave your control.”  Selene smiled weakly.  “Control is such an ugly word.  I prefer destiny.”  Kael raised his blade.  “Then destiny ends here.”  Selene laughed, the sound sharp as a bell.  “Oh, you sweet, naive creature.  I am destiny.”  The air crackled.  The light darkened. 

 “He came back to me.  But something else came with him.”* He came back to me.  But something else came with him.  Elias stood in front of me now alive, breathing, speakingbut every time I looked at him, I felt the air shift, like he carried someone else’s shadow inside him.  He was quiet that morning.  Too quiet.  When I said his name, he didn’t answer at first.  His eyes flicked toward me, then away.  “Do you hear it too? ” he asked finally.  “Hear what? ”  “The w

“Love used to heal her.  Now it’s killing her.” Every breath Rory took was a war.  Every second, a fight between life and something deeper. I had seen her fight before.  I had seen her escape poison, betrayal, even grief.  But this was different.  This was Elias’s curse, burning her from the inside out. And I couldn’t stop it.  “Her pulse is fading,” I said, pushing my ear against her chest.  “It keeps slowing every few minutes.” Lucien crouched beside me, his jaw tight.  “It’s not the wound.  It’s the bond.” I looke