“I couldn’t resist paybacks for the weeks of torture, the black coronary heart,” Kenrik mentioned.

As we got here to the hall’s finish, we heard voices. The guards within the entrance chamber to the dungeon.

Kenrik set me down. “I’ll dispatch them.”

“How?” I grabbed his hand.

Kenrik studied my face. “It appears your mild has finished greater than heal my physique. I took Caedryn down with ease. Three guards might be no match.”

“However you’re not an emrys.”

His eyebrows lifted. “Maybe not, however I really feel remnants of you.” He scowled. “And him. Wait right here.”

Remnants of me. Kenrik wasn’t linked to me. He was feeling what had been me. What was now not me.

Because the guards scuffled with Kenrik across the nook, I braced myself in opposition to the wall, contemplating. Kenrik carried my mild, which was a mixture of Caedryn’s as properly. He can be a beacon for evil except Caedryn was killed.

Kenrik rushed again. “I concern we’ll meet extra resistance on the way in which out. Caedryn has many males loyal to him.”

“I’m properly conscious of that.”

Kenrik was about to elevate me into his arms.

“Wait. We should kill Caedryn, or he’ll hunt you down.” I couldn’t imagine I used to be uttering these phrases. He was nonetheless my husband.

I believe he’s nonetheless my husband. At this level, I didn’t know what giving my mild away meant. I used to be freed from that religious bond, however the bodily union we shared couldn’t be undone. Half a wedding damaged. I couldn’t even sense our psychological bond. All bonds however one relied on the sunshine of which I used to be devoid.

I had destroyed who I used to be. And although I used to be made anew, my respiratory abruptly grew to become erratic with the notice of recent risks. “I don’t… I don’t… I—”

“Shh, it’s all proper, Niawen.” Kenrik crushed me to himself. “I’d wish to see Caedryn observe us down. We’ll journey distant. I’ll shield you.”

“You don’t perceive. You’re linked. He’ll all the time know the place you might be. So long as he’s a half-emrys carrying mild, he’ll really feel the bond cast between you. That is my fault. I’m sorry. I didn’t suppose issues by means of once I gave you my mild.”

Kenrik lifted me as my wobbly legs crumbled. “I’m not taking you again. You’re too weak. If he catches up, I’ll finish him.”

We raced down the corridors. I felt drained. My baby’s mild was tiny. She or he gave me solely sufficient to combat the darkness. The infant wanted the vitality to develop. I couldn’t hurt him by siphoning any extra.

I hoped I wasn’t dying.

My chest was hole. My heart-center was void of sunshine and darkness. Empty. Ready to be crammed.

Would my mild return with time?

It may. New mild. Gentle unconnected to Caedryn’s. My heart-center will all the time create mild. I had that hope.

Somewhat mild was all I wanted to remain underneath Caedryn’s radar. If my mild grew to the extent of a mere mortal’s, Caedryn would by no means distinguish my mild from a human’s mild. I’d be hid. Protected.

I simply wouldn’t be capable to harness such a trivial quantity.

I used to be giving a lot up for freedom.

SIXTY-SEVEN

Kenrik fought us freed from the citadel. He did have the energy of twenty males. We hid within the metropolis, down a trash-strewn alley. Kenrik leaned me in opposition to a wall behind a barrel, and he went into the rear door of a pub. He got here again with a cup crammed with ale. “Drink.”

I gulped greedily.

“Inform me learn how to give your mild again,” he mentioned.

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