KNOX’S POV
Rafael fights with desperate, unhinged conviction. He believes this.
That’s what makes him terrifying and pathetic in equal measure — he has convinced himself so completely that Ember is his fated mate that he’s willing to die for a delusion.
And the ferocity of that belief makes him dangerous because men who fight for what they love are always more vicious than men who fight for what they want.
But I am not fighting for what I want. I am fighting for what I CHOSE. For a woman who told me to never come back and a letter that told me to stay and a choice I made on a tarmac in Switzerland that I will die before I unmake.
He grabs a fallen trunk in his claws — massive, an entire pine — and swings it at me like a battering ram.
The impact catches me across the ribs and sends m
