Kings of Carrion by Keri Lake

Author:Keri Lake
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 18

Wren

Gregor was kind enough to offer us rooms, to get a few hours sleep before the others head out for the tunnels. The plan is to leave before sunrise, when it’s still dark outside. I estimate the tincture of opium I gave to the soldiers will last long enough for the group to escape Szolen, before the soldiers can notice Cali and I missing and alert the whole guard.

Though we’re supposed to be resting, I couldn’t sleep if I tried. The idea of Six going down to those tunnels, with all the risk I’ve become privy to over the last couple days, is enough to keep me from sleep until he’s returned. It’s enough to overpower the ache still churning in my stomach, and the knot that forms in my chest every time I close my eyes and see visuals of the mutations tearing him limb from limb.

As Jed said earlier, the ones who stand to gain the most from those samples are the ones pregnant by Alphas. Many of whom were sealed inside Calico and left to die, so in essence, this whole mission, aside from Cali’s determination to find her Alpha, is to retrieve something on my behalf.

Sickness churns deep inside my gut, and for once, it has nothing to do with the pregnancy. Six pulls me against him and buries his face in my neck. I thought he’d fallen asleep, but it seems I’m not the only insomniac tonight.

“Promise me. Promise me you’ll return to me,” I whisper, blinking against the threat of tears. “I’ve lost everything and everyone I love, except for you. If something happens to you down there, know that I won’t forgive myself. That I will punish myself for not doing everything in my power to stop you.”

“There’s nothing you can do, Wren. Your fate is certain. Mine isn’t. Therefore, my will is stronger than yours when it comes to this.”

I close my eyes over a trickle of tears that fall against the pillow beneath me. “Do you remember the nights you would sneak into my room, after Papa fell asleep? When we’d lie in the dark and kiss until the sun came up?”

“Yes. Those moments were my salvation.”

“Mine, too. I remember staring into your eyes and knowing I would never love another for as long as I lived. I’d never even experienced that kind of love before, and yet, there I was, no more than a teenager, certain I’d met my other half.” I lift his hand to my lips and kiss his knuckles. “When I thought I’d lost you, I was prepared to live out the rest of my life alone. But I’m not that strong anymore, Six.” Twisting around, I curl myself into his chest and lift my gaze to his. His beautiful, scarred face passes beneath my fingertips as I drag my finger down his cheek. “My love for you is beyond what it was, and it would physically crush me to lose you. There is no life without you by my side.

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