Child of Earth by Lela Grayce

Author:Lela Grayce [Grayce, Lela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

*~Clea~*

I was living my worst nightmare. Everything was dark, and I couldn’t move. This stasis spell was Aynin’s idea and was a good one at the time, but the loss of control terrified me. I was in the arms of a stranger who smelled surprisingly good. Just his presence bolstered my soul. I could feel the demon rubbing against it, but because of the stasis spell and being in this person’s arms, my soul had the strength to resist.

Actually, it was more like my soul had stopped, just paused, not letting the demon gain any more ground while the stranger’s soul so close to mine was fortifying what I no longer had the strength to.

“Can we table this riveting discussion and address why Jonavan is holding an unconscious girl?”

So, the name of the man holding me was Jonavan. It wasn’t a terrible name. There were worse names.

You should see the way he looks at you. Aynin said, interrupting my thoughts, and I could almost hear the smirk.

I rolled my eyes at him and his statement, but I remembered the look in his hazel eyes as we stared at each other for several moments before I could activate the stasis spell. He was handsome, I’d give him that, and he stepped in to help without hesitation.

A small seed of guilt entered my mind, but I pushed it aside. Nothing good would come from falling for the handsome stranger who held me so tenderly against him. I couldn’t let my heart take the lead. There was more at stake than just my heart and soul, and I needed to remember that.

“She’s not unconscious,” Aynin remarked.

“What do you mean?” Jonavan asked, his thumb rubbing along my arm. I wanted so badly to hate it.

“She’s aware but in a sort of stasis.”

“So she can hear everything we’re saying?”

“Yes,” Aynin answered.

“Why is she in stasis?” asked another male voice that I didn’t recognize.

“It’s a long story,” Aynin said again, and I huffed out a breath, feeling my head bob on Jonavan’s shoulder.

A chuckle rumbled from the chest I was pressed against, and it was enough to distract me while Aynin and the other kelpie repeated the story, ending when Aynin brought me here.

“But why come here?” a soft female voice asked.

I was getting frustrated that I didn’t know who was talking. Everyone was talking about and around me, but not to me. Though, to be fair, I hadn’t been paying too much attention, too distracted by the man holding me and how good he smelled.

The demon wriggled inside me, and my back arched involuntarily as everything in me tried to get away. My teeth clenched, and I whimpered as the demon seemed to expand into the space that my soul had withdrawn from.

“What’s going on?” Jonavan asked with a slight edge of panic to his voice as my body finally relaxed again.

Clea? Aynin almost yelled inside my head.

It moved, I replied, feeling a tear slip from my eye and run down my cheek.

“She’s alright,” Aynin tried to reassure him, but I could feel Jonavan’s heart beating a rapid tempo.

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