Impostor (The Cursed Bloodstone Book 3) by LiAnne Kay

Author:LiAnne Kay [Kay, LiAnne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter

Nineteen

Only the moon follows us as we head north. I keep looking over my shoulder, expecting someone to chase us, but no one does. Once we set up camp near a river, I evaluate the thirty men and women we rescued.

Most of them are only tired and hungry. A few require healing for their frail bodies. I use the Kyanite herbs Father gave me on all but one of them. A young Calcite woman who reminds me of Kahlia. She’s too weak for my herbs. So, I call on my Kyanite magic, pulling those beautiful waves to me. The ones that heal and renew, that pluck from the earth and give back. Pain spears through my serpent mark as I mend her.

Afterward, I settle on a rock near the sleeping woman and stare down at my hands, dreading them turning black again, dreading the darkness returning and harming the fragile life growing inside me.

The darkness will not harm either of us.

I won’t allow it.

I shift enough to touch the satchel Tersah gave me. Tentatively, I run my fingers against the cracks in the leather, knowing I need to learn how to use her flowers. Maybe Mildred can teach me when I see her again. I smile as I think of the Muchrah and Annaleigh.

While I rest, Tersah and Everly cook venison stew, and everyone gathers around them, eagerly awaiting the food. As the smell drifts through the air, I sit back, watching them and the horizon, still expecting someone to chase us.

Surely, someone will discover the fortress and all the dead Kyanite guards soon, and then they will seek their revenge.

But no one appears, and slowly, I relax, allowing my body to droop with exhaustion. I close my eyes and feel the familiar ache in my chest. That reminder that Hector is calling me back to him.

“You aren’t darkness, Sol. You are goodness.” Hector’s words whisper in my thoughts.

How I long to hear them from his lips again. How I long to see him. To touch him. To kiss him and show him he was right.

I am goodness.

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