Selene POV

Through the bond, I felt Kael slipping further. The darkness spreading faster now. Consuming him from the inside out like poison eating through his veins.

“We need to get him to the healers,” I said desperately, my hands still pressed uselessly against the wound. Blood…dark, wrong blood mixed with that horrible black webbing…seeped between my fingers. “There has to be something they can do. Some way to extract the shadow essence.”

But even as I said it, I knew it ...