Her Forsaken Prince: A Scifi Romance by Maya Hughes

Author:Maya Hughes [Hughes, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2018-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Once the door closed behind Cain, Sloan felt her shoulders, which had been inching up through the entire conversation, finally start to relax. They were helped by Xan’s muscled hands rubbing her neck to relax her. He stood behind her, his arms holding her close as she relaxed against his chest.

“This certainly wasn’t how I expected this day to end,” Sloan said.

“It has all come as a shock to me as well,” Xan said, with his face against the side of hers. Sloan rolled in his arms and stared into his eyes. “What comm were they talking about, Sloan?”

“When we were on Gru, I had Neven send an inquiry to D’Arian to check if you might have any family still alive. Anyone who you could reconnect with.”

“You sent a comm without telling me? You wanted me to leave to go back to D’Arian?” Xan gaped at her like she’d struck him.

“No, Xan, not at all. But I know what it’s like to be all alone in this universe, and I wouldn’t want that for anyone. I thought that if you had any family, you would want to know. Why didn’t you want to go back to D’Arian?”

“I’ve spent so long away, and no one has ever come for me. I knew that my family was dead. I was all alone in the universe, left to that hellish existence.” Xan stood and paced the room. “I was told by the Kirill that there was no one to come for me. There was a video message played during one of my beatings. In it, a shadowed figure described how they murdered my family. I screamed out that they were liars.” Sloan saw Xan shudder as he thought about what he had witnessed. “They had my sister’s favorite doll, the face shattered and covered in her blood. My brother’s prized knife was bent and also covered in blood.”

Sloan fought the urge to rush to Xan and wrap her arms around him. She watched him pace and relive those intense moments of loss and felt completely helpless. She got a feeling in the pit of her stomach imagining how horrible it must have been to have to watch someone talk about murdering your entire family.

“Once the shock of what I saw on the screen faded, I completely lost my mind for a while. I killed three Kirill soldiers. It took . . . I don’t know how many to subdue me. That was the night they removed my brand.” Xan rolled up his sleeve and eyed the scar that was left behind by the brand’s brutal removal. “I still didn’t want to believe it, but over time I couldn’t deny the fact that my life was no longer my own. And that I was completely alone,” Xan said. His voice distant and desolation attempting to swallow him back up. He sat on the low table in front of the lounge, and Sloan couldn’t hold back anymore. She made her way to him and placed her arms around his head and shoulders as he seemed to calm himself through her breathing.

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