The Bride He Refused to Lose
For one fleeting second, his human eyes broke through the darkness, filled with an overwhelming, shattered love.
"I love you, Lorrie..." Lorenzo whispered, his voice trembling with his final breath of freedom. "I'll find you... in the next life..."
"Don't you dare say goodbye to me!" Lorrie sobbed, slamming her lips against his in a fierce, desperate, agonizing kiss.
For a single heartbeat, Lorenzo kissed her back with everything left in his human soul.
Then—
BOOM!
A blinding wave of pure, pitch-black shadow exploded from Lorenzo’s chest, blasting Lorrie and Elena backward across the stone floor!