Chapter 149:
“We must protect Miss Jane Osmond. She’s not someone who needs to die for the world.”
“I agree. It would be best if we could protect the young lady and send her back through that rift. It’s still too narrow for that great god to force through. William will reduce the rift to just enough for one person to pass.”
“‘Send her back,’ you say.”
“I don’t want to separate lovers who are living happily, but it’s better than dying.”
Herschel agreed. Then he recalled words he once spoke to Liam:
‘Love no one.’
Love no one, lose no one. That’s what he’d said. Words spoken while sunk in despair after losing his wife Evelyn.
Ah, how he had lived like a broken man.
He would never forget his wife, who died from a cult’s revenge that he had been pursuing. Even now when he closed his eyes, that scene replayed in his mind. Again and again. Again and again.