Prologue
Kennedy looked at his mate lying on the worn out mattress...
Her beautiful face pale, her beautiful green eyes filled with tears and surrounded by dark circles, her former tall and curvaceous body shrunken and bony, her beautiful silky blonde hair withered and looked like a bird's nest.
All this and more due to the iron in her bloodstream that was slowly killing her.
Kennedy searched high and low for the cure but it was too late, Ophelia was going to die.
"Kennedy I am so sorry for everything, I hadn't gone to hunt I wouldn't have fallen in a hunter's trap. I want you to do something for me, live your life without me, you are free to mate again."
Kennedy thought the idea was stupid, how could he leave the woman that he loved.
Besides their lives was bound together by the mark that rested on her shoulder.
"If you die, I die we are bound together remember, we need to find someone to give your witch powers and my lycan essence so that our powers will not be wasted."
Kennedy thought hard and long about it.
A soul that was worthy enough to have such great powers.
Suddenly a flash of grey eyes appeared in his vision.
"What of Jade, she is nice, sweet and she is strong. I can train her on how to use the powers until we leave this world". He said with a heavy heart on the thought of leaving Jade by her self.
Silence followed both in his head and from Ophelia, his beast stayed in a corner of his head silently whimpering as the inevitable loss of his soulmate came crashing down on the both of them.
He looked over at Ophelia and saw her struggling to speak but she couldn't speak anymore, as he saw tears in her eyes he knew the time was near.
"Hey it's okay just transfer all your magic into your pendant and I will give it to her." He said as he stroked her hair.
He reached over for the glowing green pendant and gave it to her.
Ophelia shut her eyes and started the spell that would transfer both her and Kennedy's essence to the pendant.
Kennedy felt the power and strength that usually coursed through his veins gone leaving him to feel weak and helpless.
Ophelia didn't look better either she shrunk even more leaving her a bag of bones.
"Now go and give her the pendant before we die". Ophelia's weak voice ran through the mindlink that they shared.
He darted out through the door and into the dark forest following the path that lead to the dainty little cottage that 16 year old Jade lived all by herself.
He opened the door and raced to the bedroom and found her sleeping on the tiny mattress, her brown hair sprawled around her.
He placed the pendant on her neck and watched as she wriggled around in discomfort as two different supernatural powers made her body their new dwelling place.
He placed Ophelia's book of spells and a note that explained everything and the address of a powerful lycan master that would help her master her new powers.
He ran back home and saw the love of his life laying on the mattress, eyes shut and she was taking short laboured breaths.
He laid with her savouring the last moments he would have with her.
"I love you Kennedy". She whispered to him
"I love you too with all my life". He told her back.
They laid together content with each other's presence as Ophelia took her last breath and Kennedy followed suit.
There laid two lovers who died together because of the love they had for each other. Not even death could hold them apart.
