-Hope-
This was it... Time to bid farewell. Time to make it all stop...
I didn’t want to, but it was apparent that the Goddess had turned her back on me. It was clear I was not going to be able to cure my own mate. Just the thought of letting him go broke my heart, and I had not even spoken one word to him. All I knew about him was his name.
“Phoenix,” I whispered, as I sat in that little chair, feeling so powerless.
Why was this happening to me? Why couldn’t I help him?! I felt the tears silently run down my cheeks as I looked at him. It wasn’t fair.
I reached out, letting my hand run over his tattooed arm. He had all these dark lines on them. They almost looked like tally marks, but why have that tattooed on his arm? I started to count them, like I had done over the past month and a
