The horror in her fire-filled eyes was a masterpiece. I released her chin, and her head dropped, a sob finally wrenching itself from her throat.
I kept my back to Jacob and Seth. I couldn’t bear to see the dawning horror in their eyes, the realization of what their mate was becoming in this dank cellar.
I could have done the same thing to Cody as to Soleil, but that was only physical, and what she did was worse. What Soleil had done… what she had tried to do to the spirits of my children… that was a violation of a different order. A slow, greedy consumption. She hadn’t just wanted to kill; she had wanted to devour, to steal a future that was not hers.
I would give her a taste of that theft.
I closed my eyes and focused on my spirit. Phoenix fire was meant to create, even to bring thin
