Kael’s POV
The forest was silent. Only the wind whispered between the trees. I stood over her, her fragile body sprawled across the ground, breathing, but barely.
Every instinct in me screamed to finish what I started.
Her long lashes trembled slightly, like her body still wanted to fight even though her consciousness had slipped away. So fragile. So human.
I could kill her now. One move. One command to Zubby, the beast inside me. I had done worse for far less.
“You’re too much of a distraction, Diana,” I whispered, my voice low and cold. "I came to end everything. Once and for all.”
I crouched closer, eyes fixed on the faint pulse in her throat. Do it, I told myself. End her. Be done with this weakness.
But Zubby my wolf growled in my mind.
“Don't hurt mate!”
That single word mad
