Triple Temptation
Lee McLeod, Blood Groove
I felt one final, agonizing snap. A scream was torn from my lips. The world went black. When I awoke, I lay on the cold stone floor. The fire in the hearth had died. The room was dark, silent. My friends were gone. And a hollow, empty ache echoed in the place where my heart once beat. My mother's diary lay open beside me, the page with the ritual to dissolve the bond now damp with a single tear. I felt nothing. No love. No hate. Just a deep, terrible emptiness. The bond was broken. And so was a piece of my soul. I was alone. But I was not broken. Not yet. I had a new, icy resolve taking root in the desolate garden of my heart. I was going to find my own strength. And