Chapter 156

Scarlett’s POV

Tax looked at me, his eyes biimming with hope. He wanted me to speak, to reassure him, to say anything that might ease his worry But I couldn’t that no words left. I’d tom someone else’s heard apart just to be here, standing in front of him. And yet, I had nothing to say

North and I had been close, bound together by a force that was as strong as it was mysterious. His magic had connected us, male werything feel right

that he’d taken it back, pulled it all away, I felt… nothing.

Matever feelings I had for him seemed to vanish into thin air. Instead, all that was left was the hollow ache of betrayal from someone I thought was my

That pain-the one Keith’s magic had kept at bay-came crashing back like a tidal wave.

s magic had shielded me, dulled the hurt until I’d almost forgotten it was there, lurking just below the surface. But now, with his magic gone, The ptiness returned in full force. It was raw, open, like an old wound that hadn’t healed. I suppose that’s what Keith’s love and magic had been hiding from