Immortal (Time Is Eternity) by M. Lee

Author:M. Lee [Lee, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, GLBT, m/m romance, dreamspinner press, m/m, Gay Romance, Time Travel, short story, Daily Dose 2012
ISBN: 9781613726327
Amazon: B00885482U
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2012-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Immortal * M. Lee

13

his nerve, he continued on. “I could not heal you.” His breath

caught, an echo of the sharp-spiked fear he had felt then. “I

sent you away, in between the worlds, where you would be

safe.”

He hesitated too long. “Eilif?” Jon moved his hand to

cover Eilif’s. “What is it?”

Eilif couldn’t breathe. He sank off the bed and pressed

his forehead to where their hands were joined. “It took… a

long time.” And with that, the tears he had been suppressing

rushed to the surface. He shook with the force of them, dry

sobs catching in his throat before forcing their way out.

Distantly, he was aware of Jon murmuring to him, prying his

hand loose from Eilif’s grasp only to run it through his hair.

Eilif clawed at the bed sheet, sterile bleach in his nostrils. He

gasped and choked, knowing he must be worrying Jon but

unable to stop.

It was some indistinct amount of time later when he was

able to raise his head. Jon’s hand stilled in his hair. Eilif’s

face was wet and swollen; he wiped at it with his sleeve.

“Eilif.” As he’d expected, Jon’s lips were thin, his brow

creased. “How long?”

Eilif’s breath caught again at the gentleness of the

question. His eyes dropped in shame. He barely managed a

whisper when he responded. “A thousand years, my liege.”

There was a long silence. “And what of my lands?”

Eilif couldn’t look up. “I… I don’t know, my liege. I went

away to find a cure, and when I returned, your people were

part of some other lord’s holdings.” He bit his lip. “They

seemed well treated.”

“Could we find them?” Jon huffed, exasperation coloring

his tone. “No, that makes no sense if as much time has

passed as you say. No one I knew would still live, and I

would hardly recognize their descendants this far out.”

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