Zeke looked down at the beautiful, fragile face of the girl asleep on his chest. She hadn’t let go of him all night, but that was okay because he hadn’t let go of her either.
He didn’t know how she had done it or if she had done it at all. He and Shadow had been so close to breaking. The darkness had started to invade, even with Shadow’s stubbornness. Several times, he had been pulled into his nightmares, watching all his sins play out in front of him like a horror movie. He had felt the pain in his head, all over his body—a pain he couldn’t even describe.
And then Ava appeared.
The darkness had disappeared in the blink of an eye, and he found himself on the cliffs with his little human mate.
Maybe it was Shadow’s longing for her that had conjured her. Perhaps it was his longing.
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