SALVATORE

The blood boiled in my veins, excitement coursing through me for many reasons.

For that woman who fascinated me—her defiant gaze, those luscious lips, even her figure, so much like Bella’s.

It was as if she had never left, as if she… had never betrayed me. But she did!

Our dreams, everything we risked together! She never had the right to make that decision on her own.

When she failed to open the rift with her sorcery, there was still another way to strengthen it.

Why the hell would I care about the deaths of a few elemental cockroaches? Ten, a hundred, thousands—it was all the same to me!

"Crossing over could be dangerous," Brenda’s voice snapped me out of my turbulent thoughts.

I looked at the entrance, gaping like the mouth of a beast, the canyon stretching into the vast mountains.

My body trembled at the memory of what I had endured here last time—I had nearly died.

But this time, it would be different—with her…

I turned to look at Katherine.

She would come with me once t