Chapter 188

• The feeling in my stomach didn't go away the closer we got to the castle. It actually got worse. I was scared that everything was going to go wrong and the vampires or the witches or something was going to go wrong.
• I knew what my biggest fear was, but I kept pushing that to the back of my mind and telling myself that we were going to get Ryker out alive. This was the longest I had ever been without him, and I tried to focus on what it would feel like to actually wrap my arms around him again.
• But then another thought struck me. The pain I would cause him when I had to break the news about Dallas. That conversation was inevitable, and I dreaded it more than anything else. I didn’t want to be the one to break my brother’s heart, but I knew there was no one else. He wouldn’t leave the castle without Dallas, and that meant I had to be the one to tell him that Dallas was gone. The weight of that truth settled heavily in my chest, and I hated it. I hated every part of this situation. I hated what the Lycan King had done to us, the way he had turned our lives upside down.