Chapter 186\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena was in the center of the chamber, but she looked nothing like my mate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her hair had changed from the dark brown I loved to run my fingers through to a brilliant gold that seemed to glow with its own light.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her eyes were no longer the warm hazel that used to look at me with love and trust. Instead, they burned with a cold silver fire that made my chest\u00a0<\/p>\n
tighten with fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Massive chains lay melted on the stone floor around her, the metal twisted and warped like it had been exposed to impossible heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whatever had been holding her here was gone now, destroyed by the power that radiated from her in waves I could feel against my skin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t just what Orion had warned me about. This was worse, so much worse than anything he had described.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She looked like a god, but not the kind that blessed or protected. She looked like the kind that brought death and destruction to everything they\u00a0<\/p>\n
touched.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A body lay crumpled near her feet, so drained and withered that I almost didn\u2019t recognize what was left of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the scent told me everything I needed to know. Seraphine. She had killed Seraphine with whatever power now consumed her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had done it. She had used her abilities to take a life, just like Orion had feared would happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was too late. Just like nine months ago when I couldn\u2019t save Jess, I had failed to protect the person I loved most.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had lost someone again because I wasn\u2019t fast enough, wasn\u2019t strong enough, wasn\u2019t good enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The guilt hit me so hard that I had to fight to stay standing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
70\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was my fault. If I had been more careful, if I had protected her better, if I had never let Daxon get close to her in the first place, none of this would\u00a0<\/p>\n
have happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If I hadn\u2019t pushed her away five years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was all my fault. All of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I tried to take a step closer but she raised her head and looked directly at me. The expression on her face made my blood freeze in my veins.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was looking at me like I was next, like I was just another target for whatever deadly force had taken control of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was crouched over another body and I realized with horror that it was Dayon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her hands were pressed against both sides of his head, and I could see the life being drawn out of him in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His face was aging, his skin wrinkling and turning gray as whatever made him alive flowed into her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Athena,\u201d I said, and my voice came out broken and desperate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/21\u00a0<\/p>\n
15:26 Sat, Jan 10 G\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 186\u00a0<\/p>\n
R\u00a0<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t even act like she heard me. Her attention remained find on Dean the continued to frame of 18 from t\u00a0<\/p>\n
Please babe. Please come back,\u201d I said, and I took another conful my toward her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She dropped Daxon\u2019s body and it hit the stone floor with a sound that would heat my dreamR\u00a0<\/p>\n
For a moment I thought I had gotten through to her, that my voice had reached whatever part of her was still fighting at the thing that had\u00a0<\/p>\n
consumed her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But when she looked up at me again, my breath caught in my throat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She looked like she wanted to murder me for interrupting her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rage in those silver eyes was so intense I could feel it pressing against me like a bot sell\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I wasn\u2019t scared, not of her. I could never be scared of Athema, no matter what she had become.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She stood up slowly and walked toward me with movements that were too graceful, too fluid to be entirely human\u00a0<\/p>\n
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