21
Tears had long blurred my vision.
I heard Caleb chuckle softly.
“You remembered.”
“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”
“Because… I liked you. I didn’t want you to remember those bad, pathetic parts of me.”
Caleb’s voice was muffled, tinged with bitterness.
“It doesn’t matter anymore. Anya, you should go.
“Now, I just want you to forget me.”
I laughed, exasperated, enunciating each word:
“Dream on. I told you.
“I won’t throw you away.”
In a flash, the bond mark appeared.
Caleb transformed into a golden light, merging into the back of my hand.
Few people knew that a life-death bond had another use.
It was to allow a severely injured beast-man’s soul to temporarily merge into the human’s body, sharing life and death.
But this was only a temporary measure, a way to buy time.
Over time, both the beast-man and the human would die.
No one had ever been willing to go to such lengths to save their beast-man.
So, no one knew what to do after the fusion.
It was a deadly gamble where life itself was the stake.
But I wouldn’t lose.
- And I couldn’t lose. Vengeance 2
