Aurora thought, maybe he would stop being sily and understand why she was doing what she was doing. Also why there is no other way to fix this other than the one she picked.

She stared at a thunder flash that seemed to be very far away, like her happiness. Peace. She pressed the Moonstone to her chest.

“Just do something,” she whispered, like it might suddenly stop being useless and fix her. “Anything.” But it didn’t.

And the truth sat ugly in her stomach: Rowan left. Not forever. But he left her after everything she said. After everything she admitted. After the part where she told him there wouldn’t...