“No,” I denied, shaking my head fiercely as I released her and took a step back like I could run from the answer I’d just demanded from her. A cry escaped Max’s lips as he felt the truth, sensed it in her emotions. He dropped to his knees with a roar of agony so potent that it burst from him and crashed into all of us, the grief of it almost knocking me from my feet. “No,” I snarled again, a fissure rupturing through me as I turned from the truth in those green eyes, turned from my friends and family, looking towards the camp which stretched away up the mountainside above me. It wasn’t true.
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Pain
