Gift from the Tree: Source of Elementra Book 1 by Willa Rae

Author:Willa Rae [Rae, Willa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

It feels like I’ve only been asleep for five minutes but judging by the pitch blackness of my room, it’s been hours since I lay down, when a knock at my door wakes me up.

Grogginess and confusion weigh me down as I swing my legs over the side of the bed and flick a flame at the lamp to give me some light to see my door. I’m shocked to find Willow standing there on the other side. Her hair’s a mess, eyes red like she’s been crying again.

“Little wanderer, what’s wrong?” Fully alert now, I step into the hallway and look around to see what upset her.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to wake you. I’ll go back to my room,” she says in a small voice that has me reaching out and grabbing her hand before she can step away.

“Tell me what’s wrong,” I order gently.

“It’s stupid and ridiculous. I’m a grown woman and shouldn’t be this upset over a nightmare.” She sniffles and hangs her head.

Tipping her chin up to look at me, I can see she’s really upset by whatever the nightmare had been. “Would you like to lie with me for a little while?” I hold my breath, waiting for her to answer me, hoping she’ll say yes and let me hold her.

“Please,” she whispers so low I almost don’t catch it. Not waiting a second for her to change her mind, I scoop her up and walk back into my room, kicking the door shut behind me.

I lay her in the middle of my bed and crawl in, pulling her to me so her head’s lying on my chest and my hand rests on her hip. I give her a moment to get comfortable before I ask, “Do you want to talk about it?”

“Not really. I just think today brought a lot of awful memories up for me and my mind won’t stop replaying them.”

“I’m so sorry, Willow. I should’ve done more,” I tell her regretfully. I mean, she has no clue what we did tonight, but I wish I had prevented what happened to her in the first place.

“Draken, you did everything you could. I heard what you said to Corentin and Tillman. If you had shifted, you could’ve seriously hurt, if not killed those students, and those who didn’t do anything wrong wouldn’t have deserved that. You did the right thing and you got to me as soon as you could.” She tilts her chin up so she can get a better look at me. I’m supposed to be the one comforting her, not the other way around. And I tell her that as I tuck a piece of hair behind her ear. “You came to me to feel better, not for you to make me feel better, sweetness.”

“We can make each other feel better. This isn’t a one-sided relationship, Draken,” she says with a sweet sigh. She has no clue her words have caused my heart to double in size.

Relationship. We have a relationship.

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