Silas’s P.O.V I looked at her, trying to hold her gaze in the same way that I would have held her hand if she allowed me to. If only I could hold her hand and tell her that everything was going to be alright, that I was going to make it all better... but that would be another lie. Watching her suffer like this was like a knife to the chest that kept on digging deeper with each breath I took. I was rendered utterly helpless…utterly hopeless. I had only ever been this sensitive, this responsive to one other person and that had been Lily. I had only ever truly loved one person, and now that person was dead. And now, even the person that the Moon Goddess had chosen for me was on the verge of abandoning me forever. And where had that left me? Where was I supposed to go? Who was I supposed

