Alys rolls her eyes. “Now who’s being overly melodramatic?”
Solace perks up, grabbing onto the idea like a starving dog with a bone. “I’m serious! Think about it! Taking away Jayden’s wolf won’t do any good, you’ll still be bothered by the empathy pains. But taking me out of the equation would benefit us all! I won’t be mated to a bird, you will not be tortured by my empathy gift anymore, so you won’t need Jayden’s kiss… and you’ll get over him too! With a new wolf will come a new fate and, of course, a new gift. He won’t need to leave and he can do his job, unbothered by a bond he never wanted. Without me—we’ll all be free!”
“That is a horrible idea! Don’t ever say that again!”
“What? Didn’t you hear the things I just said!?”
“Of course I did. But you forget to consider the part about
