Crave by Felicia Fox

Author:Felicia Fox [Fox, Felicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1403627231
Publisher: Hot Ink Press
Published: 2014-07-02T23:00:00+00:00

Two weeks later

“Roderick, I want to want you dead for what your actions caused; because of your assistance with Marius, I almost lost my Mate. I, and the rest of our people, lost Gideon, and I lost you. I look to you like family. Besides Gid, you were all I had in this world that loved me, that cared for me despite my shortcomings.” He sits there just looking at me.

“Alexandria, I am surprised it took you this long to come and demand my head for my crimes,” he says sadly.

Pulling out my most treasured possession, I show him.

“Is… Is that your mother’s journal?” he reaches a hand out, and I pull back slightly, worried he would take it and never give it back. I own only a few of my mother’s possessions, and they are worth more to me than the air I breath.

“Yes, it is. She wrote about your love for her even though she didn’t return your affections. She saw you as a brother of sorts. You promised you would care for her regardless, and that you would watch after me until your last dying breath, as if I was your own.”

He looks away from me, his face red in frustration.

“Why did you not just let me and Felicity find some peace together? Why go through all this, especially after he had already attempted to take my life? You saw how I was after he got his hands on me.” I try not to think too hard on the time I spent with Marius, and what it did to me.

“I have never felt so betrayed. Even my father treating me indifferently all my hundred years of life does not compare to what you attempted.” My voice is soft. I can’t bring myself to yell at him. He was like a father to me and I hurt over this enough as it is.

I watch tears gather in his eyes, and it takes everything in me not to break down and hold the second man in my life to ever truly care for me. “I asked my father to send you to another Nest. I love you too much to take your life, and he has agreed. We will be sent another Captain as a transfer. I am here to say goodbye. I don’t want to see you again after this, and if I do… I will run a dagger through you like Marius did to Gideon.” My stomach churns at the declaration, but damn it, my mate is the world to me and she will come first, always.

Roderick’s tears now fall in a steady stream, and the anger and pain I have been harboring begins to prickle in the backs of my eye, letting me know they are shifting to red. He destroyed my trust. So fragile is trust, it’s a wonder why I put faith in anything. I have Felicity, and she reminds me daily that I am good and deserve good in my life. I turn and leave, breathing deeply of the musty air here in the dungeons.

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