Chapter 76

• Emma
• I hate arguing, and I sure as hell don’t want to run off like some cliché. Draven and I need to solve this and I’m so relieved when his smile slips as he studies my face. Good, that means he is taking this seriously.
• “You’re right,” he murmurs, his voice thick with defeat. “I can’t...I won’t...cage you.” He exhales sharply through his nose—a human habit he’s picked up from me—and leans forward until our foreheads touch. “But you have to understand the thought of losing you makes me feel feral in ways I haven’t felt in centuries.”