Rex Pov
I woke up suddenly like someone had thrown ice water on my face.
My eyes snapped open and I could see again. Really see with my own eyes instead of staring out through white rolled back pupils while Yolande controlled everything.
She was gone. I could feel the emptiness inside my head where her voice had been. The space she had occupied was just quiet and empty. She had been expelled when the curse broke. Pushed out by Kyran's sacrifice.
"I am free," I whispered. "Finally free."
But then I looked down and horror crashed over me like a tidal wave. I was covered in blood. My hands, my arms, my chest. All soaked in thick red blood that was not mine.
Kyran's body lay at my feet. Still and lifeless. His chest had a massive wound where I had driven my claws through him. Where Yolande had used my hands to kill him.
"No," I said. "No no no. What did I do. What did she make me do."
