Ash
Kell is safe. Hidden away, waiting on the twins. That's what I need to believe.
Then I have a vision of what happens if we stay.
Johnny and I are back out in the world, hunting the people who never stopped hunting us. It's the right thing to do. It's also the first time it's been just the two of us since we were teenagers, before I made the choice that cost us both everything.
I know what I felt for him then. I never stopped feeling it. Two alphas aren't supposed to work. That's what we were always told. I'm starting to think we were told a lot of things that weren't true.
Johnny
Ash and I have been moving through this fight side by side, and I've been telling myself that's all it is.
It isn't.
There's a cult behind the Vigil pulling strings we're only beginning to see. When they get their hands on us, I understand for the first time exactly what I'm not willing to lose. Kell is home, waiting. Ash is here, and he's been here longer than I let myself admit.
We were always three. I think I just needed the world to try hard enough to take it from me before I could say that out loud.