Chapter 42

Alexander pushed open the front door, stepped back to allow her to precede him. He was continually scanning the area around them, a habit long since drilled into him by his lost brother. Sorrow welled up out of nowhere. “I sometimes think I could have destroyed him by now if it weren’t for the fact that I can’t bear to be in the world without him. I gave my word of honor to him long ago that I would be the one to destroy him should he lose his soul. We both did. If one turned, the other would hunt and destroy, yet I have been unable to fulfill my promise to him. Is it deliberate, Miah? Is it?” He sounded lost and very alone.

She closed the door firmly against the light beginning to streak through the early morning sky. “No, Alexander, you would have honored your promise if you were able to do so. And I believe that you will. You honor him.”

“Luther lost feeling while he was a mere fledgling, long before our males normally do, yet he endured for two thousand years. He was now a lost de