Fenris exhaled heavily when I didn’t answer right away. “I get the feeling you are expecting a different outcome than I am in terms of what tomorrow brings,” he said, his hand stilling on my skin. “I just…I need you to be okay, Celeste. I am trusting you with more than my own life. I’m trusting you with your life, which is infinitely more important to me.”
It was all I could do not to burst into tears in that moment. As if the stress of the eclipse weren’t enough, that was one of the kindest, most heartfelt things anyone had ever said to me.
I took a deep breath, pressing my face into his chest. “I just…I just wish I was able to figure out what my mother was telling me in my dream,” I whispered. It wasn’t the whole truth, but it was true. Enora had clearly been communicating with me, but
