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“I’m Declan,” Wolf Guy said as my face heated.
Where the hell did you look with so many private parts on display? Other than the ground, of course.
“Alpha of this valley and fellow executioner,” he added.
Another surprise.
I lifted my head, the hair on the back of my neck standing at attention. “You what?”
Declan cocked a kind of sexy grin. “We’ll talk.”
Sexy?
“Sing, precious one,”Caer said in my head.“Now.”
Really?
I did as she asked, though. It would be important.
As I began to slip away, Aidan’s body parts came back together. Within seconds, he was back on his feet.
Great timing.
Really great timing.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
SILVANUS
Iwas suddenly surrounded by white rose petals as Paris’s beautiful voice slid into my head, restoring another part of my memory.
I saw myself in Clarence Palace after Aidan’s cursing in the tower. I commanded my vampires to leave me alone. Vaughn and Layla tried to console me, but I roared at them to obey their king.
Their new king.
Grief’s talons ripped into me, my head a storm of sorrow. I remembered every thunderous crash, every gale-like blast of devastation.
“Lucius…”
I slumped against the throne with my brother’s bone dust still upon it.
“Please don’t leave me,” I begged him, some of my pleading reserved for Aidan.
In that moment, I still wanted to believe I’d wake from a nightmare to find my golden love beside me. To run down into this throne room to see Lucius going about his kingly business.
Life as it should be, not this horror.
But I knew better.
Sniffling, Past Me got to his feet, wiping at the streaks of bloody tears on his cheeks, smearing them across his face.
A name arrived on my tongue.
“Camilla,” Present Me whispered at the same time.
Realization hit me with diamond fists. Camilla. My sister. The name sank back into me as if it had always been there.
“By Selene,” I muttered, a new slice of remembrance joining the tapestry of my mind.
