Chapter 31

Ethan

The pain was unbearable — because it was a reminder of why I hated my entire existence — why I had a reason to hate.

Cassius.

Didn't it always come back to him? After all, it had started with him. Or maybe it had just started with Ara.

Another shudder wracked my body. Bones felt like they were twisting around one another before suddenly resetting themselves over and over again.

I felt her pain.

Because she was a part of me now.

So her pain was my pain.

Only for me, it was worse.

Because it was the second time in my existence I'd experienced it — when it was only supposed to be experienced once. Immortals mated for life. That was, unless someone or something intervened.

Hands shaking, I took another drink of blood. It did nothing, or maybe it did, and I was just too bitter to allow it to heal me.

She'd been naked, inconsolable, and I'd left her.

With Mason, of all creatures. My best friend, the only being o