(Cameron)
“She’s only going to get more powerful,” Zephyr said, her face contorted in an emotion I didn’t have a word for.
“I’ll do it now,” I replied; I had already decided as soon as she reached us.
Lucas grabbed my arm. “No,” he and Jackson said at once.
“No one else has a clear shot. I'm the best option, and you two have mates.”
“You do too,” Lucas stated, his voice pained; even Jackson looked on the verge of breaking down right here, and that was something I hadn’t seen from my Alpha. My friend, my brother Jackson, maybe, but not my Alpha Jackson, especially not during battle.
It twisted something inside me, but it only solidified my reasoning.
They had to live.
“I know,” I admitted. “But her and I, this is something we have to do. This is something I know I have to do.” A
