Alexandra Bracken

Dreaming led to disap

disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

old gods must die to allow the new to rise.

The pain was good. It kept her focused.

His life had played out exactly as it was meant to, without her there to interrupt it.

And he had never come to find her. Not even when she’d needed him most.

I love you more with every sunrise.

in the darkest moments of her life, that resilience alone had saved her.

“You must learn not to fear pain, or else it will shackle you and strip your courage. Fear is the greatest enemy.”

Don’t fall, she thought.

I won’t, his gaze promised.

And as long as he wouldn’t, neither would Lore.

Lore realized she was still holding Castor’s wrist, but was too afraid to let him go.