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CHAPTER 49

Lalo

“Kiss me before I go,” he whispered.

“No,” Carolina sobbed. “You can’t leave me.”

His heart was breaking. Smashing into a million pieces because of everything he had lost. But Lalo couldn’t help but feel relieved too. He would no longer have to take someone’s life in order to feed his. He would no longer have to devour and kill just to survive.

And everyone would be safe. Everyone would be all right.

He held on to that fact. He clung to it with everything hehad.

Lalo leaned into her, ignoring the fire rushing through his veins. He sealed her cries within his own mouth.

As their bodies pressed against each other, he felt his heartbeat come to an end.

An explosion of light and energy surged between them. He could have sworn it was the sun even though it was the middle of the night. How he missed the feel of it on his skin like this. Warm and not the cause of blistering agony. He opened his eyes and smiled as the heat of it slammed into him. Then everything went dark.