Chapter Twenty-nine (Dane’s POV) Decades before…

"Dane!" she screamed as the disintegration was almost to her head.

"You, my love you are a fucking goddess! Fight! Fight, damn it! Don't you let them do this to us! Fight!" I yelled with anguish.

"Find me…" I thought I heard her say, but I couldn't be sure. I saw a shimmer in the air right at the back of where she stood and then she was gone. My heart tightened so hard that I fell to my knees. The pain. Oh! Heavens! The pain was profound.

"Selene!" I screamed in pain. The very core of me was burning. "Selene!" I continued to yell for the goddess who created me, showed me what living meant and sentenced me to damnation. The anger was slow, but it came like a poison vine and it wrapped its claws around my soul.

Now that the only reason I had wanted to live was taken from me, what was there to live for? I stood up, grunting like a wounded beast, I broke off the charm necklace around my neck and threw it aside and slowly let the animal in me out.

Like a volcano, I busted out of t