“You must do this!” His expression was a cross between pained and impatient. “This is the only way. This is the only path forward.” “I’m not a murderer!” “Then hate me more for making you one.” Taavin knelt before her. Even as she shouted at him, his voice didn’t waver and his gaze was set. He really was going to let her kill him. “Hate me because I will never let myself love you again. Hate me because you truly are the cause of all my torment. You are my nightmares. It was always you.”
