72. End

Zia Stewart’s jaw dropped along with the sinking of her heart when the gun was fired.

“Nooooo!” Her reverberating howl rumbled throughout the room. “Edward! Edward!” she cried at Edward who had collapsed on her tiny lap.

Right then she realized. ‘So this is what it feels like.’ Gray’s image suddenly flitted across her head. The reason for her recurring nightmares, her major life change and the pain she must have suffered even after all the years that had gone by. In an instant, Zia was able to empathize with her. The agony of not being able to do anything as you see your lover dying right in front of your very eyes. The torture of breathing just fine when the person you love most is grasping for breath in front of you. The tormenting situation of your lover only inches apart from you but you could not do as much as touch them. It was not easy, a