Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future novel Chapter 121

Bronx’s POV

The portal closed.

Kas is gone.

She left with them.

She chose the Mavri Magea over our pack.

I look back at Lenora in my arms. I feel myself rocking back and forth. It isn’t for her comfort. Lenora can never be comforted ever again. I take the hem of my shirt and try to clean the blood away from her face. All it does is smear it down her chin.

“Leni. Come back. Don't leave me. Don’t leave us. I need you. So do Milo and Codi and the pack. Please Lenora, come back to us,” my lip trembles, pleading with her. Tears drip down from my chin onto her forehead as she looks blankly at me.I look into her green eyes one last time before I run my hand over and close her eyelids. Now she looks like she’s sleeping. I pull my shirt off and lay it over her, trying to hide the gaping wound on her neck and chest. I can't bear to look at her that way.

When the searing pain of our family bond and pack bond breaking at the same time hits me, I pull her closer. I cry out in an Earth-shaking roar at the crumbling feeling in my chest. Pack members how! in the distance as they feel her bond break, too. What am I going to tell them? How can I possibly explain her death? How can I explain what their Luna has done to all of us?

“Bronx! Lenora? Where are you?!” I hear people yelling from the hallway. No. Not people. Milo. I hear Lenora’s mate, my Beta, looking for me. Looking for his mate.

Shit.

“Milo! We-we're in here!” My voice cracks as I call back to him.

I hear scrambling coming down the hall, and Milo appears in the doorway.

Reggie is right behind him. Milo’s eyes widen when he sees me holding Lenora. He rushes forward and takes her from my arms. Reggie stands in the doorway in disbelief.

“No. It’s not real. Lenora, no. This can’t be true. Moon Goddess, please no. Bring her back. I need her back,” Milo repeats over and over as he holds her against his chest. He buries his head into her neck and cries. His pleading words turn into distressed sobs as he pulls Lenora away from his body and smoothes her hair away from her face, “Please, Sugar. Please don't go. I want you here. I need you here.”

His eyes flash black when Ghost comes to the surface. When he throws his head back, Reggie and I both join him in a howl of mourning.

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“Have you heard anything from her?” Reggie asks quietly, helping me straighten my tie.

“No. And we aren't talking about it right now, Reggie,” I growl quietly, “Today is about Lenora. If Kas wanted to be here, she would be. She made her choice.”