Chapter 28 The Cost Of Integrity

• Ava's POV
• Every breath I took as Jackson and I carried Lily out of the flaming clearing seemed like inhaling glass fragments. Though the smoke, the heat, and the sound of crackling flames were diminishing behind us, the panic of almost losing her stayed, piercing and cold in my chest. She was unconscious but alive; her pulse was faint but there it was. That by itself was preventing me from disintegrating.
• Caleb was somewhere.