But if they didn’t stop their present course, Johnathan would die. She had almost managed to convince herself that his “death” on Pompeii was not her fault, but there could be no doubt about her responsibility this time. She would be killing Johnathan, whom she had only recently realized she loved.
Why couldn’t he have stayed dead? In time, the wounds would have healed and she would have all but forgotten him. Now he had to complicate her life once more. How could she possibly make a decision like this?
“No matter what I do, I lose,” she whispered.
“That’s a negative way to look at it,” Bred said more gently. “Try to think, instead, that either way you win. One way you win the Hunt, the other way you win Johnathan. All victories have a price, and you have to be willing to pay it. You ha
