No! This can't be true.

I've suddenly returned to the family I desperately missed. Yet seeing their faces now felt more like a stab straight through my heart.

My hero is gone.

The man I'd grown to love had been torn away from me by an all consuming darkness. It was supposed to be impossible, and yet the string of fate that had bound us so completely had been broken as if it was nothing. The mortal realm had tainted me and there was no way to go back.

Or was there?

I'd promised to save Favian's soul and I was determined to keep my word. I would find my way to the Underworld no matter the cost. Even if our souls were no longer bound by fate, they were still bound by the oath I'd made.