Chapter 148

**Celeste's POV**

Two hours.

I stood at my window watching the Square of Bones fill with shadow creatures. Thousands of them. All waiting to watch Ronan die.

My hands pressed against the glass. Cold seeping through my fingers.

Two hours until they killed the boy who'd saved my life.

*Good,* the dark part of me whispered. *Let him die. He chose her over you.*

But another voice spoke up. Quieter. Weaker. But real.

*He saved you once. ...