Beloved Fate by Stormy Glenn

Author:Stormy Glenn [Glenn, Stormy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Gargoyle, Fantasy, Coddington
Amazon: B00G2LWCX4
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Published: 2013-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Nikos rested his head on his hand as watched Yannis’s chest rise and fall as he breathed. Even sleeping, he was amazing. Nikos knew something seriously profound had happened between them. Even if he didn’t fully believe in Gods and Goddesses, he believed that Yannis believed in them.

And that was enough.

For the first time since the night his parents died, Nikos didn’t feel an overwhelming rage and a need to find those responsible. He just wanted to lay in bed with Yannis and watched the handsome gargoyle breath.

Since the moment Yannis came back, it seemed like time had stopped. But as the first rays of dawn began to break over the mountains in the distance, Nikos wished that time would stop just a little longer.

Daylight was coming, and that meant Yannis would turn to stone until nightfall. Nikos wasn’t sure how he would stand the hours of separation, not after giving himself so freely to Yannis just hours before.

Tears prickled Nikos’s eyes as the first morning rays filtered through the window and landed on Yannis’s chest. His breath caught in his throat, and he quickly reached out to catch the last seconds of warmth in his Beloved’s skin.

“Yannis,” he cried out as soft, pink skin turned gray and cold. His heart ached, and he felt like he was dying inside, his soul shriveling up to nothing. As much as he didn’t want to watch his lover turn to stone, he couldn’t bring himself to look away. This was a part of Yannis that he would have to grow used to.

Nikos leaned up and gently brushed his mouth over Yannis’s, the tears in his eyes falling freely at the coldness of his lover’s lips. He told himself it would just be for a few hours and then Yannis would be back with him, calling him Beloved and discovering the world around him, trying to protect him from the phone.

Just a few hours and— Nikos blinked.

“Yannis?” he whispered as he leaned back a fraction of an inch, afraid to hope. His eyes rounded, growing large with each passing second as he watched the cold hard gray stone of Yannis’s body crack, the little pieces flaking and falling off, revealing beautiful, soft, pink skin.

“Yannis?” Nikos crawled closer, moving until his body pressed against the gargoyles.

Hoping he wasn’t causing the man any pain, Nikos gently picked off a piece of the flaking stone. It was thin, almost like the hard coating on a chocolate-dipped ice cream cone. It fell off easily, more bits and pieces cracking and breaking and falling to the mattress.

Nikos licked his lips, his eyes darting to Yannis’s eyes and then back down to his chest. “Yannis, please wake up. I don’t know what’s going on, and I’m scared.” He was even afraid to touch Yannis any more than he already was.

“Hush, Beloved,” Yannis murmured as he rolled to his side and wrapped his arm around Nikos, pulling him close to his chest. “We will get up soon and eat. I need a bit more rest.

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