Goddess.
She looked hollowed out.
The kind of exhaustion that settled directly into someone’s soul.
Lena dragged both hands down her face roughly before staring at the floor.
“You understand though, right?” she whispered hoarsely.
Half rage.
Half heartbreak.
“I need to end him myself.”
Kara quieted immediately beneath my skin.
Because yes.
Fuck.
I understood.
After everything Noah had done to her?
To all of us?
Of course she wanted to be the one to finish it.
Lena laughed once under her breath.
Broken.
“I survived him,” she whispered. “I survived all of that and somehow the Gods still decided I needed a matebond attached to this mess too?”
Her powers crackled softly again.
“I just wanted one thing to be mine,” she admitted quietly. “One thing.”
My chest tightened painf
