Epilogue Cade
EPILOGUE
CADE
It’s late when we get home and Calli is nowhere to be found—I imagine she is exhausted. I don’t want to wake her. I see Karma curled up on the counter. I pet her head as Jack escorts Genevieve to our spare room upstairs and I make my way to mine—collapsing onto the bed.
After everything, I’m finally home. My body is sore, the cuts and bruises half-healed. They sting.
I try to clear my mind and push it down, but I can’t get it out of my head. I grip the pendulum around my neck—like it’ll summon you.
When Frank was choking the life out of me—I didn’t think of Calli—or how she would survive without me. I thought of you.
Only you.
You have no idea how badly I want to drag my fingers down your throat just to feel you shudder. To hold you down, pin your wrists, and watch the way your body betrays you as I whisper all the things I would do to you if I had you in front of me.
The thought of losing you—I can’t accept it.
I won’t.
You are mine.
I don’t know how this works. But I know that my every thought is consumed by your presence…
How am I supposed to get anything done?
I don’t know how, but I know you are here.
Hear me, my little ghost—when this is over…
When I destroy them all…
When I kill the God they follow…
You are my final mission.
I want to consume your every thought like you’ve consumed mine. I want to devour everything you have to give. I will become yours, as you have become mine. The concept of existing without you is no longer an option.
I will find you, little ghost. And when I do—there will be nothing left of me, but you.