Graphite: The Carbon Series Book 2 by H.Q. Frost

Author:H.Q. Frost [Frost, H.Q.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

As our time together comes closer to the end I hate myself and what I have to do. While I was able to be what she needed in the time we spent together, it has to end. It won't be hard because I am the monster she's always known, only now I appreciate what's mine. For our time together, she was mine.

"Do you think there's any way." She pauses and looks up into my face while I keep her at my side in this tiny building they call an airport. "Any way at all that we could arrange a meeting between the kids?"

"Magdelena—"

She wraps her arms so her hands sit on my shoulders. "Please, Callum. Please. I'll do anything."

"Would you die for it? Because that's what will happen," I quietly snap at her.

"They're twins. They're siblings, Callum. They don't even know each other."

"Along with a mother and father," I snarl.

"As terrible as that is, it's not the same as not knowing the other soul you shared a womb with."

"It's torture for them, Magdelena. They cannot have a relationship." While I'm pissed, I don't want her to move away but I also won't give her hope. I can't or it would only be cruel of me.

"But when all this is over…"

"No. They live in two different worlds. Cole will be a duke and Poppy will know nothing of that world."

"Don't you realize how important this is?"

"I also know how important your life is." Placing my hands on her hips, I want to pull her against me but I push her back, severing the connection.

"Why does she want me dead?" she asks as if she can't fathom the cruelty.

"If you threaten anything to do with the Carbon name, you are an enemy."

"I'm not threatening the Carbon name," she insists and moves closer to me.

"You are no longer welcome as a Carbon." My chest burns but I hold an impassive expression.

Her hands wrap around my neck and she stares up at me in reverence. "What if…we try again?"

I don't stop it when she presses her lips to mine. And I don't pull away when she eases her tongue against mine. I latch onto her wrists needing a connection I shouldn't be giving and I kiss her back, but don't allow her all of my affection. In my head I'm telling her yes. I'm getting her on my flight and bringing her back to the estate. I'm explaining to my great grandmother that Magdelena is willing to give me another chance and all can carry on as it should. But that is not our future.

In reality I stop kissing her and she slowly stops trying. She stares up at me and before she speaks, I pull her hands from around my neck.

"The contract has expired, Magdelena." I stare over the top of her head, unable to look into her face as I break her heart again. "You're no longer needed to the Carbons. Including Cole."

Years ago saying that to her wouldn't have made me bat an eye, but today, my cold, tired heart is breaking with hers.

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