Chapter 17 - The Ultimate Sacrifice
The specter lunged forward with terrifying speed, slamming into Jesse and sending him crashing against the stone wall. Jesse roared in pain, his sword clattering to the floor as dark tendrils wrapped around his limbs, rapidly turning his skin back into gray stone.
“Jesse!” Jane screamed.
She rushed forward, but the specter raised a clawed hand, sending a shockwave that threw her violently against the altar. Pain flared through her ribs, and her golden light flickered and dimmed.
“Come, little omega,” the specter mocked, looming over her. “Your love woke him, and now your blood will finish him.”
Jane coughed, tasting copper on her tongue. She looked over at Jesse, whose chest was entirely encased in stone once more, his molten eyes locked onto her with pure anguish. He was trapped again, helpless to save her.
No, Jane thought fiercely. Not again.
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Instead of retreating, Jane crawled forward, ignoring the agonizing pain in her body. She reached the crystal shard hovering above the dark vortex. With a final surge of desperate, unbreakable love, she grabbed the glowing shard with both hands, channeling every ounce of her soul into the stone.
“If you want my blood,” Jane shouted, her eyes blazing a blinding, incandescent gold, “you have to take my entire soul!”
