Chapter 109

EMMA

Both of my mates held me to them, and I felt safe. My breathing was evening out, and the pain in my body had left. My hand already healed, but Xander placed a kiss to where Kai had to bite it. Knowing now what the shadow was, and what it did, made me far more concerned about the situation than when I was ignorant about it.

The Nokaura were no joke. They thrived in chaos and pain. They enjoyed filleting their enemies, and they did that to me more times than I could remember at the moment. The seven times that I fell in battle was because of them. I was certainly not looking forward to those memories coming back. What we saw them do in those dreams was child’s play compared to what they truly enjoyed doing with their enemies, and everyone was their enemy. That was why Selene needed to be taken out of the equation. She was aiding them and making them stronger.

“When I was thirteen, Heath and Ezekiel began regularly dosing me with an unknown black substance. Were you there the day