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“My name is Alexandra Jennings and I’m here because we need your help…”
“No chance, Alex. You should know by now, I’d follow you to the end of the world.” He glanced pointedly at the three moons now slowly rising in the star-strewn sky. “And beyond.”
She watched as Soraya disappeared and reappeared with the laendra that she then smeared across Niyx’s chest and forced him to drink. She watched as Niyx looked up at her with his knowing, apologetic eyes, fully aware of his fate even if she wasn’t willing to believe it. She watched as he spoke to her in a rasping, pained voice, “Kitten, there’s nothing you can do.” She watched as she adamantly tried to prove him wrong, unwilling to entertain the possibility that he was right. She watched as his wounds failed to close, failed to heal. She watched as he uttered the words that had destroyed her
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NIYX WHY
“You don’t owe anyone anything, least of all to the people who love you. They’ll understand.”
“Well played, Jennings. But don’t think you won’t pay for what you just did later.”
“This isn’t the freaking Hunger Games!
“Screw the prophecy,” he told her, straight up. “Forget what it said—both versions of it. You go and make your own destiny.”
“Protect my people, Alex,” he told her, his voice rough with emotion. “Succeed where I failed.”
“It’s still a blow,” D.C. acknowledged. “But we’re resourceful. We’ll figure something else out.” “Together,” Bear said. “Always together.”
He’d already followed her to another world; she knew without a shadow of a doubt that he’d follow her to the ends of this one, too, if it came to it.
But today, let me be the first to say that I believe in you, Alexandra Jennings. And I will fight with you—and for you— through this day, and all those to come.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Alex panted to interrupt, mentally calling Soraya again. “Save it for someone who cares.”
Medora was her life. Medora was her home. And now, Medora was her future.
