Nothing Left to Eat POV: General Vesh (Elara Vance)Lilith looked like she'd crawled out of a grave.Her gown was in tatters. Her pale skin was gray with soot. She'd clawed her way through a thousand tons of collapsed marble, and the only thing that had kept her moving was hunger.She stood in the flickering light and looked around the room. She saw the pile of gray ash where the True King had been. She understood.Then her eyes landed on Kaelen, tall and glowing in the First Alpha's armor, and on me in his arms."No." Her beautiful face twisted. "He was mine. I was going to eat him!""Not on the menu anymore." I wriggled out of Kaelen's arms and stood on my own feet.I waited for the ache in my chest. It didn't come. The Goddess had mended what the bond had been tearing, and now the tether between us didn't feel like a chain. It felt like a window left open. I could feel Kaelen on the other side of it, steady and warm, and he could feel me.He stepped up next to me. Our shoulders to
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