The third mistake repeated itself in his mind more quietly but more persistently than the rest.
After the fight, he had been unable to care for himself.
That fact annoyed him more than his injuries did.
He had killed the Berserker, erased it completely, and survived the immediate aftermath, but then his body had failed him. He had passed out in a hostile realm and remained unconscious long enough that his safety fell entirely into Charlotte's hands.
Without her, he might have died to something far weaker than the demon he had destroyed. That made the victory feel incomplete. Worse than incomplete, it made it feel badly managed. Regulus had been right. It did not matter how powerful he was if the cost of using that power left him defenseless afterward.
So Liam trained with those thoughts circling through him again and again.
