CHAPTER 15
AURORAWith my arms wrapped around my knees, I rocked back and forth on the patio chair and thought about everything that had happened in the past hour. After I’d told Charolette that I couldn’t fix her, she’d cried her eyes out in her bedroom so loudly that I could hear it from here.
It hurt me almost as much as it was hurting her. But I could do nothing to help. Just by trying to heal her, all my energy was zapped from my body. This was her last chance, and I wasn’t strong enough to rip her from Hella’s grasp.
Unless I found someone who would trade their life for hers, her fate was sealed.
And I knew Marcel would trade his life in an instant, but I feared asking him, because if we lost him, we might lose the war.
From afar, Marcel and Ares walked up the path toward the pac
