Chapter 81 Hot

• Eyrn POV
• Jesse leads me to the porch. I struggle not to look back at Kyle's lifeless body. He was my friend, after all, and for a fleeting moment, he was more than that. In a different world, we could have been happy. We could have been mates, but that is not the hand that fate dealt us. I belong with Atticus. He is my mate now.
• No one is talking, and the air around us is tense. It is like everyone is waiting for me to freak out. But I am numb. I don't have a single emotion in my body. It is like everything that has happened happened to someone else.