Aria POV
I take her from him, falling to the ground I hug her close. My tears not stopping as I squeeze her limp body close to me. My baby sister was dead, her life snuffed out. We failed to protect her, I failed. But her scent was still there, and she didn’t feel cold, not like the dead did. She didn’t feel alive either, but why is her scent still here? It should have faded.
“Abel,” Reid said, patting him on the back. My father nodded but didn’t take his eyes from Lily in my arms. He looked tortured. He loved Lily, that’s why he spent years keeping Kade alive. He felt guilty for what happened to her and promised he would find out the answer we had spent years searching for to fix Lily. Fix what he believed he broke.
Lily loved him too, thought of him as her grandfather, loved and che
