Soft blue light misted from between my lips. I touched it to my palms, and it scraped all the pain away into nothingness. Gone, leaving an empty feeling behind it, as if I were missing something I had relied on for the last two years-the guilt I'd made tangible. The rest of my body, however, still throbbed and leaked too much blood, and my iced-up heart was still under Ty's spell.

I dug my hand into a drawer and curled it around something weighty and sharp. Memories of my ...