Chapter 147

ELARA

Now everything makes sense.

When they said I was cursed to be alone; it wasn’t because I wouldn’t find my mate.

It was because I’d find them and they’d slip from hands like sand in the wind.

I staggered out of the hospital building, with the blood of the Healer on my hands and a strange sense of bond between me and the King.

In order to save the Healer’s life, I had to make the oath, and the