Alek POV:

This was the moment that I have been fearing for years now. Chloe is down to her last life and it is slipping through her fingers.

I wouldn't consider the Mai exactly united with the humans, but much progress has been made. Just today Chloe had attempted to talk to an Order member. Everything went fine and they said they would consider her offer to end the feuding. Sometimes she could really sell it.

Seeming as though she was perfectly safe, she went to do some usual grocery shopping. It wasn't a member of the Order who attacked her, no, that would have been too easy. A gang member pretended to be dying and Chloe ran to help. It was the usual thing to do. They ended up stabbing her in the heart and running off with her purse.

If they would have just asked for some money, Chloe would have given it to them in a heartbeat. Sometimes her big heart got the best of her.

I called her and she did not pick up her cell phone. Worried, I tracked it. I saw that it was a few blocks away from our house, so I decided to see what she was up to. I ended up cornering the thug. They pulled out their knife, and I saw the blood.

I didn't even have to ask. I just knew. When the love of your life is hurt, nothing goes through your mind except them. I ran the path to the grocery store. I caught the site of her a few feet down an alley.

"Chloe!" I screamed, running to her side. "Chloe, where are you hurt?"

I lifted her shirt looking for the mark. I found it. It was a deep slash about two inches long. I could tell it was infected. I listened in on her heart to hearing it slowly fading away. The knife penetrated it and it was bleeding out.

"Don't stop fighting." She whispered.

Chloe's dying wish was to complete the job she was born to do. The very job that had killed her eight times before and was killing her for a final death. Yet she still wanted it done. But I refused to plainly agree. She had to stay alive.

"Chloe! Stay with me!" I screamed as I pulled out my phone.

My fingers were shaking as I dialed a Mai healer.

"Hello?" A healer spoke into the phone.

"Chloe's dying. Boulevard Avenue. No time to spare." I said.

"On my way." A hurried voice said.

"Chloe!" I said squeezing her hand. "Don't give up on me now!" I screamed at her.

I stripped off my shirt and wrapped it around her torso hoping to slow the bleeding. I also pushed my hand on it for pressure.

I knew this alone wasn't going to save her. Her heart had been punctured and there was nothing I could do.

"Chloe! Promise me!" I shouted to her.

"I love you." She chocked out almost silently.

"No." I felt the tears start to leak from my eyes. "No! Stay with me!" I shouted again.

"Remember.." She started but her voice was too quite to hear.

"Remember what?" I yelled through my tears that were running down my cheeks.

"Me." Her lips said.

"The healer is coming! Hold on for a few more minutes!" I pleaded.

I couldn't tell which of my hands was working harder. The one putting pressure on her wound or the one giving reassuring squeezes to hers.

"What about our son?" I yelled, hoping she would pull through this for him.

But it was no use.

I saw her eye lids flutter as they closed.

"Chloe!" I screamed.

But it was too late. I listened in on her silent heart hoping for something. Anything. But it was silent.

I watched the tear fall from my eye onto her cheek, where it gently went over the small cheek and rolled down her neck.

Her heart was silent and she had no more lives. She was gone. Forever.

"Alek!" A man yelled as he ran around a corner. He was soon followed my a group of healers.

I shook my head as the tears continued to fly.

"She's gone!" I cried out.

Chloe just died the last life.

Author note: Depressing, isn't it?

I kind of have an idea for a sequel…but only if you guys review and tell me you want it.